Bataan, Philippines: storm history

119 storms have passed within 50 km of Bataan from 1890 to 2025. The map shows Philippines; search for a town in Bataan 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 Bataan

The record holds 119 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Bataan, Philippines between 1890 and 2025. The busiest month is October, with 33 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 47 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 119storms within 50 km
  • 6major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 24at 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 Bataan?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1714%
Tropical storm3126%
Category 1119%
Category 276%
Category 343%
Category 41<1%
Category 51<1%
Unknown intensity4739%

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

Bataan storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 16 in 1970s.1890s101900s111910s41920s71930s71940s31950s61960s121970s161980s91990s122000s72010s72020s8

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1890, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1890s10
1900s11
1910s4
1920s7
1930s7
1940s3
1950s6
1960s12
1970s16
1980s9
1990s12
2000s7
2010s7
2020s8

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 33 in Oct.Jan1Feb0Mar0Apr2May5Jun12Jul15Aug2Sep18Oct33Nov24Dec7
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May5
Jun12
Jul15
Aug2
Sep18
Oct33
Nov24
Dec7

Strongest storms near Bataan

  • Angela (1995)20 October 1995 to 7 November 1995, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 910 hPa
  • Noru (2022)21 September 2022 to 29 September 2022, Category 4 (115 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 940 hPa
  • Patsy (1970)13 November 1970 to 22 November 1970, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (135 kt), 910 hPa
  • Kim (1977)4 November 1977 to 17 November 1977, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 920 hPa
  • Xangsane (2006)25 September 2006 to 2 October 2006, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 940 hPa

Most recent storms near Bataan

  • Fengshen (2025)15 October 2025 to 23 October 2025, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 990 hPa, provisional
  • Nalgae (2022)26 October 2022 to 3 November 2022, Tropical storm (45 kt) near here, peak Category 1 (75 kt), 975 hPa
  • Noru (2022)21 September 2022 to 29 September 2022, Category 4 (115 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 940 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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