Rajshahi, Bangladesh: storm history

70 storms have passed within 50 km of Rajshahi from 1877 to 2025. The map shows Bangladesh; search for a town in Rajshahi to see storms near it.

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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 Rajshahi

The record holds 70 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Rajshahi, Bangladesh between 1877 and 2025. The busiest month is June, with 14 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 2 strength. 58 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 70storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 1at 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 Rajshahi?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression57%
Tropical storm69%
Category 100%
Category 211%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity5883%

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

Rajshahi storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in 1890s.1870s1890s1910s1930s1950s1980s2000s2020s

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.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1870s3
1880s7
1890s12
1900s7
1910s8
1920s2
1930s5
1940s5
1950s2
1960s7
1980s3
1990s1
2000s3
2010s1
2020s4

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 14 in Jun.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May12Jun14Jul7Aug12Sep9Oct12Nov4Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May12
Jun14
Jul7
Aug12
Sep9
Oct12
Nov4
Dec0

Strongest storms near Rajshahi

  • Amphan (2020)15 May 2020 to 21 May 2020, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 920 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of November 2002 (North Indian)9 November 2002 to 12 November 2002, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 990 hPa
  • Aila (2009)22 May 2009 to 26 May 2009, Tropical storm (55 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (65 kt), 970 hPa
  • Remal (2024)23 May 2024 to 28 May 2024, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 978 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 1996 (North Indian)21 October 1996 to 29 October 1996, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 998 hPa

Most recent storms near Rajshahi

  • Unnamed storm of May 2025 (North Indian)29 May 2025 to 30 May 2025, peak Tropical storm (34 kt), 986 hPa
  • Remal (2024)23 May 2024 to 28 May 2024, peak Tropical storm (55 kt), 978 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of October 2020 (North Indian)22 October 2020 to 23 October 2020, peak Tropical depression (28 kt), 998 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.

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