Olongapo, Philippines: storm history

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

The record holds 97 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Olongapo, Philippines between 1890 and 2025. The busiest month is October, with 26 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 37 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 97storms within 50 km
  • 4major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 19at 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 Olongapo?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1616%
Tropical storm2526%
Category 188%
Category 277%
Category 333%
Category 400%
Category 511%
Unknown intensity3738%

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

Olongapo storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 13 in 1970s.1890s81900s91910s41920s61930s51940s31950s61960s91970s131980s81990s92000s52010s62020s6

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
1890s8
1900s9
1910s4
1920s6
1930s5
1940s3
1950s6
1960s9
1970s13
1980s8
1990s9
2000s5
2010s6
2020s6

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 26 in Oct.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr2May4Jun12Jul13Aug1Sep14Oct26Nov19Dec6
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May4
Jun12
Jul13
Aug1
Sep14
Oct26
Nov19
Dec6

Strongest storms near Olongapo

  • Angela (1995)20 October 1995 to 7 November 1995, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 910 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
  • Vamco (2020)8 November 2020 to 16 November 2020, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 955 hPa

Most recent storms near Olongapo

  • 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
  • Conson (2021)5 September 2021 to 13 September 2021, peak Tropical storm (60 kt), 992 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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