Đắk Lắk, Vietnam: storm history

69 storms have passed within 50 km of Đắk Lắk from 1888 to 2025. The map shows Vietnam; search for a town in Đắk Lắk 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 Đắk Lắk

The record holds 69 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Đắk Lắk, Vietnam between 1888 and 2025. The busiest month is November, with 31 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 2 strength. 20 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 69storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 12at 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 Đắk Lắk?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1522%
Tropical storm2232%
Category 1710%
Category 257%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2029%

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

Đắk Lắk storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 12 in 1990s.1880s11890s21900s31920s11930s11940s21950s51960s91970s61980s101990s122000s32010s92020s5

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1888, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1880s1
1890s2
1900s3
1920s1
1930s1
1940s2
1950s5
1960s9
1970s6
1980s10
1990s12
2000s3
2010s9
2020s5

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 31 in Nov.Jan0Feb0Mar2Apr0May0Jun0Jul0Aug0Sep5Oct25Nov31Dec6
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr0
May0
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep5
Oct25
Nov31
Dec6

Strongest storms near Đắk Lắk

  • Kyle (1993)17 November 1993 to 24 November 1993, peak Category 2 (95 kt), 960 hPa
  • Lola (1993)27 November 1993 to 9 December 1993, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 3 (105 kt), 955 hPa
  • Lingling (2001)5 November 2001 to 12 November 2001, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 940 hPa
  • Wanda (1951)16 November 1951 to 26 November 1951, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 985 hPa
  • Damrey (2017)31 October 2017 to 5 November 2017, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 970 hPa

Most recent storms near Đắk Lắk

  • Koto (2025)23 November 2025 to 3 December 2025, Unknown intensity near here, peak Category 1 (80 kt), 970 hPa, provisional
  • Yinxing (2024)2 November 2024 to 13 November 2024, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 945 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of March 2022 (Western North Pacific)29 March 2022 to 1 April 2022, peak Tropical storm (35 kt), 1,002 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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