This is a list of names given to winds local to specific regions.
Africa
Berg wind, a seasonal katabatic wind blowing down the Great Escarpment from the high central plateau to the coast in South Africa. Cape Doctor, often persistent and dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast from spring to late summer (September to March in the southern hemisphere). Haboob, a sandstorm's fast moving wind which causes cold temperature over the area from where it passes. It mainly passes through Sudan of Africa continent. Harmattan, a dry wind that blows from the northeast, bringing dust from the Sahara south toward the Gulf of Guinea. Khamsin (khamaseen in Egypt) and similar winds named Haboob in the Sudan, Aajej in southern Morocco, Ghibli in Libya and Tunisia, Harmattan in the western Maghreb, Sirocco, a south wind from the Sahara and Simoom in the Arabian Peninsula. Tsiokantimo (strong south wind blowing southwest Madagascar)
Asia
Central Asia
Karaburan ("power storm") (a spring and winter katabatic wind of Central Asia) Khazri (cold, coastal gale-force wind of north Caspian Sea) Sukhovey (hot dry wind in the steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts of the Kazakhstan and the Caspian region)
Eastern Asia
Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra) Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan) East Asian Monsoon, known in Korea as jangma (장마), and in Japan as when advancing northwards in the spring and when retreating southwards in autumn. (strong katabatic wind across the Kanto Plain)
Northern Asia
Barguzin wind (steady, strong wind on Lake Baikal in Russia) Sarma (cold strong wind at the western shore of Lake Baikal)
Southeast Asia
Amihan (northeasterly wind across the Philippines) (southwesterly wind across the Philippines)
Southern Asia
Elephanta (strong southerly or southeasterly wind on the Malabar coast of India) Kalbaishakhi (local rain fall and thunder storm which occurs in India and Bangladesh) Kali Andhi or simply Andhi (the violent dust squalls that occur before monsoon in the northwestern parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of the Indian Subcontinent) Loo (hot wind which blows over plains of India and Pakistan.) Mango showers (it is accompanied by thunderstorm bringing rainfall to Karnataka, Kerela and parts of Tamil Nadu during months of March and April.) Pachua (Westerlies) Monsoon of South Asia
Western Asia
Gilavar (south wind in the Absheron Peninsula of the Azerbaijan Republic) N'aschi (northeastern wind on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, and on the Makran coast) Rashabar (or Rashaba) ("black wind") (a strong wind in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, particularly in Sulaimaniya) Shamal (a summer northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states) Sharqi (seasonal dry, dusty Middle Eastern wind coming from the south and southeast) Simoom (Samiel) (strong, dry, desert wind that blows in Israel, Jordan, Syria, and the desert of Arabia) Wind of 120 days (a four-month-long hot and dry wind over the Sistan Basin in Iran and Afghanistan)
The Americas
Latin America and the Caribbean
Caribbean
Alisio (easterly trade wind in the Caribbean) Alize (northeasterly across central Africa and the Caribbean) Bayamo (violent wind on Cuba's southern coast) Brisote (the northeast trade wind when it is blowing more strongly than usual, in Cuba)
South America
Abrolhos (squall near the Abrolhos Islands off the coast of eastern Brazil) Caju (stormy gale-force north-westerly in the Atlantic coast of Brazil) Nordeste (moderate wind from northwest in brazilian Northeast region) Carpinteiro (strong southeasterly wind along the southern Atlantic coast of Brazil) Garua, la garúa, or garoa (dry winds hitting the lower western slopes of the Andes) Minuano (southern Brazil) Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina) Pampero (Argentina and Uruguay), very strong wind that blows from the sea over the Rio de la Plata into the Pampa, generally accompanied with a thick line of squalls, with severe rains, hail and thunderstorm. Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile) Sudestada, (strong offshore wind from the Southeast associated with most of the shipwrecks in Uruguay's Rio de la Plata coast) Williwaw (strong, violent wind occurring in the Strait of Magellan, the Aleutian Islands, and the coastal fjords of Southeast Alaska)