Hurricane History Map

Bangladesh storm history

311 storms have passed within 50 km of Bangladesh from 1877 to 2025, drawn on the map and coloured by intensity.

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Years1842 to 2026
Ocean basin

Choosing a minimum category hides storms with no wind speed in the record. To see which storms have passed near you, search a town or ZIP code, or tap the map.

Key
  • Tropical depression Winds below 34 knots (39 mph)
  • Tropical storm 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph)
  • Category 1 64 to 82 knots (74 to 95 mph)
  • Category 2 83 to 95 knots (96 to 110 mph)
  • Category 3 96 to 112 knots (111 to 129 mph), major
  • Category 4 113 to 136 knots (130 to 156 mph), major
  • Category 5 137 knots (157 mph) or more, major
  • Unknown intensity No wind speed in the record
  • Post-tropical Storm has become post-tropical (dashed line)

How to read the lines. Each line is the track of one storm, drawn through its six-hourly positions and coloured by its intensity at each point (the Saffir-Simpson scale), so a line changes colour as the storm strengthens or weakens. Tap a line for its details, or tap anywhere else to see which storms have passed nearby. Weaker storms appear as you zoom in. Hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are the same kind of storm with different names in different oceans.

Storms near Bangladesh

The record holds 311 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Bangladesh between 1877 and 2025. The busiest month is October, with 54 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 235 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 311storms within 50 km
  • 5major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 13at category 1 strength or more

A storm counts once, however many times it came close. The category is the storm's strongest point within 50 km, which can be weaker than its peak elsewhere.

How strong were the storms near Bangladesh?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression227%
Tropical storm4113%
Category 152%
Category 23<1%
Category 31<1%
Category 43<1%
Category 51<1%
Unknown intensity23576%

The agency behind most of the intensity figures here is the US Joint Typhoon Warning Center (Indian Ocean).

Bangladesh storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 42 in 1960s.1870s1890s1910s1930s1950s1970s1990s2010s

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1877, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1870s7
1880s17
1890s26
1900s22
1910s18
1920s25
1930s17
1940s31
1950s16
1960s42
1970s19
1980s16
1990s18
2000s10
2010s15
2020s12

Earlier decades hold fewer storms partly because they were harder to see. Before weather satellites (about the 1960s) many storms that stayed at sea went unrecorded, so compare decades with care.

Storms by month
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 54 in Oct.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr3May40Jun47Jul45Aug48Sep35Oct54Nov32Dec7
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May40
Jun47
Jul45
Aug48
Sep35
Oct54
Nov32
Dec7

Strongest storms near Bangladesh

  • Unnamed storm of April 1991 (North Indian)22 April 1991 to 30 April 1991, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 918 hPa
  • Sidr (2007)10 November 2007 to 16 November 2007, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 944 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of April 1994 (North Indian)26 April 1994 to 3 May 1994, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 940 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of May 1997 (North Indian)13 May 1997 to 20 May 1997, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 964 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of November 1988 (North Indian)21 November 1988 to 30 November 1988, peak Category 3 (110 kt)
  • Bulbul:matmo (2019)28 October 2019 to 11 November 2019, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 976 hPa

Most recent storms near Bangladesh

  • Unnamed storm of July 2025 (North Indian)25 July 2025 to 26 July 2025, peak Tropical depression (28 kt), 988 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of July 2025 (North Indian)14 July 2025 to 15 July 2025, peak Tropical depression (23 kt), 996 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of May 2025 (North Indian)29 May 2025 to 30 May 2025, peak Tropical storm (34 kt), 986 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of September 2024 (North Indian)13 September 2024 to 17 September 2024, peak Tropical storm (34 kt), 989 hPa
  • Remal (2024)23 May 2024 to 28 May 2024, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 978 hPa

Many of these storms killed people and destroyed homes. The figures are the official record's, and this page says nothing about their human cost.

Bangladesh ranks number 12 among countries and territories for the number of storms.

Notable storms near Bangladesh with their own pages

  • Sidr (2007)10 November 2007 to 16 November 2007, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 944 hPa
  • Bulbul:matmo (2019)28 October 2019 to 11 November 2019, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 976 hPa
  • Amphan (2020)15 May 2020 to 21 May 2020, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 920 hPa
  • Fani (2019)25 April 2019 to 4 May 2019, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 932 hPa
  • Hope (1979)24 July 1979 to 10 August 1979, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 900 hPa

Bangladesh regions

Regions (first-level divisions) that storms have come within 50 km of at least 5 times, most storms first.

RegionStormsStrongest near the region
Khulna227Category 4
Chittagong130Category 5
Barisal124Category 4
Dhaka105Category 3
Rajshahi70Category 2
Sylhet27Category 3
Rangpur21Tropical storm

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