Miyazaki, Japan: storm history

118 storms have passed within 50 km of Miyazaki from 1911 to 2026. The map shows Japan; search for a town in Miyazaki 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 Miyazaki

The record holds 118 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Miyazaki, Japan between 1911 and 2026. The busiest month is September, with 37 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 21 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 118storms within 50 km
  • 9major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 45at 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 Miyazaki?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression98%
Tropical storm4336%
Category 12319%
Category 21311%
Category 376%
Category 422%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2118%

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

Miyazaki storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 20 in 1950s.1910s61920s11930s31940s101950s201960s171970s101980s101990s142000s92010s112020s7

The 2020s only run to 2026, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1911, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1910s6
1920s1
1930s3
1940s10
1950s20
1960s17
1970s10
1980s10
1990s14
2000s9
2010s11
2020s7

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 37 in Sep.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr1May0Jun10Jul23Aug35Sep37Oct10Nov2Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May0
Jun10
Jul23
Aug35
Sep37
Oct10
Nov2
Dec0

Strongest storms near Miyazaki

  • Yancy (1993)27 August 1993 to 7 September 1993, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 925 hPa
  • Eve (1996)10 July 1996 to 27 July 1996, Category 4 (115 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 940 hPa
  • Usagi (2007)27 July 2007 to 4 August 2007, Category 3 (105 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (120 kt), 945 hPa
  • Kate (1951)25 June 1951 to 3 July 1951, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 975 hPa
  • Grace (1954)11 August 1954 to 23 August 1954, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 940 hPa

Most recent storms near Miyazaki

  • Jangmi (2026)27 May 2026 to 3 June 2026, Tropical storm (51 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (74 kt), 973 hPa, provisional
  • Peipah (2025)2 September 2025 to 10 September 2025, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 988 hPa, provisional
  • Lingling (2025)17 August 2025 to 23 August 2025, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 994 hPa, provisional

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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