SeasonMap

Typhoon season, month by month around the world

A system a summer stops the trains for a day; it rarely ruins a week.

This is a warning page, not a recommendation. Typhoon season covers 60 destinations on SeasonMap; the months below are the ones in which the risk window is open — most weeks in them pass quietly, and the score beside each place is still the ordinary climate score, hazard and all.

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Number of destinations with typhoon season on in that month. Windows move a little each year.

Typhoon season in May

  1. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongTyphoon season · 1 May – 30 NovTropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest.55climate
  2. 🇵🇼 Koror, PalauTyphoon season · 15 May – 30 Nov (usually)Palau sits at the western Pacific's southern edge, where systems form rather than where they mature, so direct hits are rarer than in the Marianas but not rare enough to ignore between May and October.49climate

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Typhoon season in June

  1. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.66climate
  2. 🇬🇺 Hagåtña, GuamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Storms can cross Guam in any month, but most western Pacific systems form between June and November and the island is squarely in the track.58climate
  3. 🇵🇭 Manila, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Luzon takes the storms that cross from the Pacific, and it is the rain rather than the wind that stops the capital.53climate
  4. 🇵🇭 Boracay, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Aklan sits inside the storm track.53climate
  5. 🇵🇭 Cebu City, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory.52climate
  6. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.51climate
  7. 🇵🇭 Palawan, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, though the ones that have crossed it did severe damage.51climate
  8. 🇵🇭 Dumaguete, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovNegros Oriental sits on the sheltered side and most systems pass north, but the ones that do come through cancel the Apo Island boats and the Cebu ferries for a couple of days.51climate
  9. 🇵🇼 Koror, PalauTyphoon season · 15 May – 30 Nov (usually)Palau sits at the western Pacific's southern edge, where systems form rather than where they mature, so direct hits are rarer than in the Marianas but not rare enough to ignore between May and October.50climate
  10. 🇵🇭 Coron, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Northern Palawan sits at the edge of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the Visayas, but a system passing north still stops the ferries and the small planes for a day or two.49climate
  11. 🇵🇭 El Nido, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Northern Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, but a storm passing anywhere near grounds the small planes and the boats for a day or two.48climate
  12. 🇵🇭 La Union, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovWestern Luzon takes systems head-on and the coast road north gets cut by landslides.48climate
  13. 🇻🇳 Ha Long, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The management board suspends all sailings when a storm is signalled, and an overnight cruise can be cut to a day trip or cancelled outright with a few hours' notice.46climate
  14. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongTyphoon season · 1 May – 30 NovTropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest.40climate
  15. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The Vietnamese season runs June to November and the north takes its share mostly between July and September, when remnants sit over the delta and leave water standing in the streets for days.40climate

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Typhoon season in July

  1. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.61climate
  2. 🇯🇵 Yakushima, JapanTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The ferry and the hydrofoil from Kagoshima stop a day before a storm and do not restart for a day after.61climate
  3. 🇹🇼 Alishan, TaiwanTyphoon and landslide season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The mountain road and the forest railway are the first things to shut when a system parks over the island.59climate
  4. 🇯🇵 Okinawa, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Okinawa takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan.58climate
  5. 🇵🇭 Palawan, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, though the ones that have crossed it did severe damage.55climate
  6. 🇯🇵 Ishigaki, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The Yaeyamas sit in the busiest track in Japan.55climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Miyakojima, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Miyako takes direct hits rather than glancing ones.55climate
  8. 🇹🇼 Hualien, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The east coast is where systems make landfall first, and Hualien takes them undiluted.54climate
  9. 🇫🇲 Pohnpei, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Systems form in this part of the western Pacific and usually strengthen well after they have passed, so Pohnpei more often gets the disturbance than the typhoon.53climate
  10. 🇨🇳 Guangzhou, ChinaTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)A typhoon signal eight closes offices, schools and the ferries to Hong Kong for the day, and September is the month it is most likely.52climate
  11. 🇵🇭 Cebu City, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory.51climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.51climate
  13. 🇬🇺 Hagåtña, GuamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Storms can cross Guam in any month, but most western Pacific systems form between June and November and the island is squarely in the track.51climate
  14. 🇫🇲 Chuuk, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Chuuk sits below the main typhoon track but under the convergence zone, so systems form nearby from mid-year and pass close.51climate
  15. 🇹🇼 Sun Moon Lake, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Inland and high, so it is the rain rather than the wind that does the damage.51climate
  16. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongTyphoon season · 1 May – 30 NovTropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest.50climate
  17. 🇲🇴 Macau, MacaoTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Signal eight closes the casinos, the ferries to Hong Kong and the bridge to the airport for the day.49climate
  18. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, ChinaTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)Signal 8 and the city stops: offices close, the metro thins out, and the ferries and border crossings to Hong Kong pause.49climate
  19. 🇵🇼 Koror, PalauTyphoon season · 15 May – 30 Nov (usually)Palau sits at the western Pacific's southern edge, where systems form rather than where they mature, so direct hits are rarer than in the Marianas but not rare enough to ignore between May and October.49climate
  20. 🇨🇳 Xiamen, ChinaTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)This coast takes direct hits, not glancing ones, and the city has been shut for days by them.49climate
  21. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, ChinaTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)A system tracking up the coast suspends the metro's above-ground lines and the Pudong flights for a day, usually with two days of warning.48climate
  22. 🇨🇳 Sanya, ChinaTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 31 Oct (usually)Hainan takes direct hits rather than glancing ones, and the island shuts properly when a warning is up: flights grounded, boats in, resorts moving guests off the beachfront.48climate
  23. 🇹🇼 Taipei, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)A typhoon day is declared by the city and everything stops: offices, schools, the MRT above ground.47climate
  24. 🇵🇭 Boracay, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Aklan sits inside the storm track.47climate
  25. 🇵🇭 Dumaguete, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovNegros Oriental sits on the sheltered side and most systems pass north, but the ones that do come through cancel the Apo Island boats and the Cebu ferries for a couple of days.47climate

…and 12 more in July.

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Typhoon season in August

  1. 🇷🇺 Vladivostok, RussiaTyphoon remnants · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Systems that made landfall on Korea or Japan arrive here as tropical storms, and a single one can flood the low streets and cut the road out to the region for a day.67climate
  2. 🇯🇵 Yakushima, JapanTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The ferry and the hydrofoil from Kagoshima stop a day before a storm and do not restart for a day after.64climate
  3. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The peak of the season is late August and September.62climate
  4. 🇯🇵 Yokohama, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The bay is exposed and the waterfront is the part that shuts — the piers, the ferris wheel and the harbour cruises go before the trains do.62climate
  5. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.59climate
  6. 🇵🇭 Cebu City, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory.58climate
  7. 🇰🇷 Jeju, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The island sits on the track rather than beside it.58climate
  8. 🇰🇷 Busan, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Busan takes the brunt of the systems that reach Korea.58climate
  9. 🇯🇵 Nagoya, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Ise Bay is the reason this city takes storm surge seriously.58climate
  10. 🇹🇼 Alishan, TaiwanTyphoon and landslide season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The mountain road and the forest railway are the first things to shut when a system parks over the island.58climate
  11. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, ChinaTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)A system tracking up the coast suspends the metro's above-ground lines and the Pudong flights for a day, usually with two days of warning.57climate
  12. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The Inland Sea is sheltered compared with the Pacific coast, but a system tracking through stops the Miyajima ferry and the shinkansen for a day.56climate
  13. 🇵🇭 Palawan, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, though the ones that have crossed it did severe damage.56climate
  14. 🇰🇷 Incheon, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Systems that reach the Yellow Sea are usually weakening, but the island ferries out of Yeonan pier stop well before the wind does.56climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Okinawa, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Okinawa takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan.55climate
  16. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Osaka Bay funnels the surge, and the airport and the port road are what close first.55climate
  17. 🇯🇵 Beppu, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)Kyushu takes more landfalls than any other part of Japan, and the island's ferries and the Sonic to Hakata are the first things to stop.55climate
  18. 🇰🇷 Seoul, South KoreaTyphoon risk · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer systems track up from the south; most weaken before Seoul, but one a year is enough to stop the trains and flood the Han riverside parks.54climate
  19. 🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer is when a system tracking up the archipelago stops the trains for a day.54climate
  20. 🇫🇲 Pohnpei, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Systems form in this part of the western Pacific and usually strengthen well after they have passed, so Pohnpei more often gets the disturbance than the typhoon.54climate
  21. 🇹🇼 Hualien, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The east coast is where systems make landfall first, and Hualien takes them undiluted.54climate
  22. 🇯🇵 Kumamoto, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Kyushu takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan and a landfall stops the trains and the airport for a day.54climate
  23. 🇯🇵 Osaka, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Kansai Airport sits on a man-made island in the bay and shuts when a serious system comes up the coast.53climate
  24. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.53climate
  25. 🇫🇲 Chuuk, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Chuuk sits below the main typhoon track but under the convergence zone, so systems form nearby from mid-year and pass close.53climate

…and 29 more in August.

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Typhoon season in September

  1. 🇷🇺 Vladivostok, RussiaTyphoon remnants · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Systems that made landfall on Korea or Japan arrive here as tropical storms, and a single one can flood the low streets and cut the road out to the region for a day.90climate
  2. 🇰🇷 Incheon, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Systems that reach the Yellow Sea are usually weakening, but the island ferries out of Yeonan pier stop well before the wind does.76climate
  3. 🇰🇷 Seoul, South KoreaTyphoon risk · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer systems track up from the south; most weaken before Seoul, but one a year is enough to stop the trains and flood the Han riverside parks.75climate
  4. 🇵🇭 Siargao, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 31 DecSiargao sits where systems make landfall and it was flattened in December 2021.70climate
  5. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The peak of the season is late August and September.66climate
  6. 🇰🇷 Busan, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Busan takes the brunt of the systems that reach Korea.65climate
  7. 🇯🇵 Kyoto, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Late summer is when a system tracking up the archipelago stops the trains for a day.64climate
  8. 🇯🇵 Nagoya, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Ise Bay is the reason this city takes storm surge seriously.64climate
  9. 🇯🇵 Yokohama, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The bay is exposed and the waterfront is the part that shuts — the piers, the ferris wheel and the harbour cruises go before the trains do.64climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Hiroshima, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The Inland Sea is sheltered compared with the Pacific coast, but a system tracking through stops the Miyajima ferry and the shinkansen for a day.63climate
  11. 🇯🇵 Kobe, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Osaka Bay funnels the surge, and the airport and the port road are what close first.62climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.62climate
  13. 🇯🇵 Yakushima, JapanTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The ferry and the hydrofoil from Kagoshima stop a day before a storm and do not restart for a day after.62climate
  14. 🇯🇵 Kumamoto, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Kyushu takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan and a landfall stops the trains and the airport for a day.62climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Osaka, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Kansai Airport sits on a man-made island in the bay and shuts when a serious system comes up the coast.61climate
  16. 🇨🇳 Shanghai, ChinaTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)A system tracking up the coast suspends the metro's above-ground lines and the Pudong flights for a day, usually with two days of warning.61climate
  17. 🇰🇷 Jeju, South KoreaTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)The island sits on the track rather than beside it.61climate
  18. 🇯🇵 Fukuoka, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually)Kyushu sits in the path more often than anywhere else on the main islands.60climate
  19. 🇯🇵 Nagasaki, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The west coast of Kyushu is on the busiest approach in Japan.60climate
  20. 🇯🇵 Beppu, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)Kyushu takes more landfalls than any other part of Japan, and the island's ferries and the Sonic to Hakata are the first things to stop.58climate
  21. 🇨🇳 Xiamen, ChinaTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)This coast takes direct hits, not glancing ones, and the city has been shut for days by them.57climate
  22. 🇹🇼 Alishan, TaiwanTyphoon and landslide season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The mountain road and the forest railway are the first things to shut when a system parks over the island.57climate
  23. 🇯🇵 Okinawa, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Okinawa takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan.56climate
  24. 🇹🇼 Tainan, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Fewer direct hits than the east coast, but the flooding is the problem here rather than the wind.55climate
  25. 🇯🇵 Kagoshima, JapanTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 30 Sep (usually)More systems make landfall around here than anywhere else in the country.55climate

…and 34 more in September.

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Typhoon season in October

  1. 🇯🇵 Nagasaki, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)The west coast of Kyushu is on the busiest approach in Japan.85climate
  2. 🇯🇵 Beppu, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 5 Oct (usually)Kyushu takes more landfalls than any other part of Japan, and the island's ferries and the Sonic to Hakata are the first things to stop.84climate
  3. 🇯🇵 Tokyo, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 10 Oct (usually)The peak of the season is late August and September.75climate
  4. 🇯🇵 Okinawa, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Okinawa takes more direct hits than anywhere else in Japan.67climate
  5. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongTyphoon season · 1 May – 30 NovTropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest.65climate
  6. 🇻🇳 Ha Long, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The management board suspends all sailings when a storm is signalled, and an overnight cruise can be cut to a day trip or cancelled outright with a few hours' notice.64climate
  7. 🇹🇼 Tainan, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Fewer direct hits than the east coast, but the flooding is the problem here rather than the wind.64climate
  8. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.64climate
  9. 🇹🇼 Sun Moon Lake, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Inland and high, so it is the rain rather than the wind that does the damage.64climate
  10. 🇯🇵 Miyakojima, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Miyako takes direct hits rather than glancing ones.63climate
  11. 🇯🇵 Yakushima, JapanTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The ferry and the hydrofoil from Kagoshima stop a day before a storm and do not restart for a day after.63climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Siargao, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 31 DecSiargao sits where systems make landfall and it was flattened in December 2021.61climate
  13. 🇹🇼 Kaohsiung, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)Southern Taiwan is hit less often than the east coast but harder by the rain when it is.60climate
  14. 🇹🇼 Kenting, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The southern tip of Taiwan takes storms head-on.60climate
  15. 🇯🇵 Ishigaki, JapanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The Yaeyamas sit in the busiest track in Japan.59climate
  16. 🇨🇳 Sanya, ChinaTyphoon season · 15 Jul – 31 Oct (usually)Hainan takes direct hits rather than glancing ones, and the island shuts properly when a warning is up: flights grounded, boats in, resorts moving guests off the beachfront.59climate
  17. 🇹🇼 Alishan, TaiwanTyphoon and landslide season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The mountain road and the forest railway are the first things to shut when a system parks over the island.59climate
  18. 🇻🇳 Hanoi, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 15 Oct (usually)The Vietnamese season runs June to November and the north takes its share mostly between July and September, when remnants sit over the delta and leave water standing in the streets for days.58climate
  19. 🇹🇼 Hualien, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)The east coast is where systems make landfall first, and Hualien takes them undiluted.57climate
  20. 🇵🇭 Manila, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Luzon takes the storms that cross from the Pacific, and it is the rain rather than the wind that stops the capital.55climate
  21. 🇹🇼 Taipei, TaiwanTyphoon season · 1 Jul – 15 Oct (usually)A typhoon day is declared by the city and everything stops: offices, schools, the MRT above ground.54climate
  22. 🇫🇲 Pohnpei, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Systems form in this part of the western Pacific and usually strengthen well after they have passed, so Pohnpei more often gets the disturbance than the typhoon.53climate
  23. 🇵🇭 La Union, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovWestern Luzon takes systems head-on and the coast road north gets cut by landslides.53climate
  24. 🇫🇲 Chuuk, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Chuuk sits below the main typhoon track but under the convergence zone, so systems form nearby from mid-year and pass close.52climate
  25. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.50climate

…and 15 more in October.

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Typhoon season in November

  1. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hong KongTyphoon season · 1 May – 30 NovTropical cyclones can reach the city from May, with July to September the likeliest.78climate
  2. 🇵🇭 Baguio, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovThe Cordillera wrings out anything that crosses Luzon, and Baguio holds the country's rainfall records for it.78climate
  3. 🇵🇭 Manila, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Luzon takes the storms that cross from the Pacific, and it is the rain rather than the wind that stops the capital.65climate
  4. 🇵🇭 La Union, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovWestern Luzon takes systems head-on and the coast road north gets cut by landslides.65climate
  5. 🇵🇭 Coron, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Northern Palawan sits at the edge of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the Visayas, but a system passing north still stops the ferries and the small planes for a day or two.61climate
  6. 🇵🇭 El Nido, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Northern Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, but a storm passing anywhere near grounds the small planes and the boats for a day or two.58climate
  7. 🇲🇵 Saipan, Northern Mariana IslandsTyphoon season · 1 Aug – 30 Nov (usually)The Marianas sit in the middle of the western Pacific storm track and take a serious hit every few years.58climate
  8. 🇵🇭 Dumaguete, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 NovNegros Oriental sits on the sheltered side and most systems pass north, but the ones that do come through cancel the Apo Island boats and the Cebu ferries for a couple of days.58climate
  9. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.56climate
  10. 🇬🇺 Hagåtña, GuamTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Storms can cross Guam in any month, but most western Pacific systems form between June and November and the island is squarely in the track.54climate
  11. 🇵🇭 Palawan, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Palawan sits west of the main track and takes fewer direct hits than the rest of the country, though the ones that have crossed it did severe damage.54climate
  12. 🇵🇭 Siargao, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 31 DecSiargao sits where systems make landfall and it was flattened in December 2021.53climate
  13. 🇵🇭 Cebu City, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory.52climate
  14. 🇵🇭 Boracay, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 30 Nov (usually)Aklan sits inside the storm track.52climate
  15. 🇫🇲 Pohnpei, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Systems form in this part of the western Pacific and usually strengthen well after they have passed, so Pohnpei more often gets the disturbance than the typhoon.52climate
  16. 🇵🇼 Koror, PalauTyphoon season · 15 May – 30 Nov (usually)Palau sits at the western Pacific's southern edge, where systems form rather than where they mature, so direct hits are rarer than in the Marianas but not rare enough to ignore between May and October.52climate
  17. 🇻🇳 Hue, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Storms crossing the central coast arrive with days of warning and shut the Hai Van pass and the rail line for a day at a time.50climate
  18. 🇫🇲 Chuuk, MicronesiaTropical storm months · 1 Jul – 30 Nov (usually)Chuuk sits below the main typhoon track but under the convergence zone, so systems form nearby from mid-year and pass close.50climate
  19. 🇻🇳 Hội An, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)Central Vietnam takes the landfalls.48climate
  20. 🇻🇳 Nha Trang, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Oct – 15 Dec (usually)Storms this far south are rarer than on the central coast but arrive late in the year, and the ones that have hit here did real damage.48climate
  21. 🇻🇳 Da Nang, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 30 Nov (usually)The central coast takes the storms that cross from the Philippines, usually one or two that matter.47climate
  22. 🇻🇳 Quy Nhon, VietnamStorm and flood season · 15 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)The south-central coast takes its weather late in the year, and a landfall or a few days of heavy rain closes the coast road and the boats out to the islands.46climate

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Typhoon season in December

  1. 🇻🇳 Nha Trang, VietnamTyphoon season · 1 Oct – 15 Dec (usually)Storms this far south are rarer than on the central coast but arrive late in the year, and the ones that have hit here did real damage.61climate
  2. 🇵🇭 Bohol, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The Visayas take a few landfalls a year and the late-season ones have been the worst here.54climate
  3. 🇵🇭 Cebu City, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Jun – 20 Dec (usually)The central Visayas are in the track and the December storms have done the most damage here in recent memory.51climate
  4. 🇵🇭 Siargao, PhilippinesTyphoon season · 1 Sep – 31 DecSiargao sits where systems make landfall and it was flattened in December 2021.50climate
  5. 🇻🇳 Quy Nhon, VietnamStorm and flood season · 15 Sep – 15 Dec (usually)The south-central coast takes its weather late in the year, and a landfall or a few days of heavy rain closes the coast road and the boats out to the islands.50climate

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