Plan around the weather
See where tropical cyclones have historically travelled—and compare the months when weather disruption is most likely to affect your trip.
Every line is plotted from six-hourly latitude and longitude records in NOAA IBTrACS. Click a line to identify the storm and route.
Observed tracks: Actual six-hourly positions selected from NOAA IBTrACS v04r01, not forecasts or illustrative paths. Start and endpoint markers are outlined; peak intensity is solid. Basemap © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Pabuk gives Thailand a direct example; rare near-equatorial Vamei gives the Singapore–Malaysia area one. Each mini-trail uses exactly the same coordinates as the map.
Crossed the Andaman Islands, intensified across the Bay of Bengal and came ashore directly over Visakhapatnam on 12 October, where it tore the roof off the airport terminal and closed VTZ for days.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Yolanda
Crossed the central Philippines before continuing through the South China Sea into Vietnam and southern China.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Ompong
Crossed northern Luzon, passed south of Hong Kong and made landfall on the Guangdong coast.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Isang
Crossed the Luzon Strait and intensified before landfall near Macao and Zhuhai.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Egay
Passed north of Luzon, crossed the Taiwan Strait and tracked inland after landfall in Fujian.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Crossed the Gulf of Thailand and made landfall in Nakhon Si Thammarat before moving into the Andaman Sea.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Formed about 130 km east of Singapore, passed just north of the city and crossed southern Peninsular Malaysia.
NOAA IBTrACS dataset ↗Country comparison
Higher bars mean greater historical travel-disruption exposure—not a prediction that a storm will occur during your trip.
MNL · CEB
Most exposed to direct western Pacific landfalls.
PVG · SHA · CAN
Shanghai and the southeast coast see the greatest disruption risk.
BKK · HKT
Usually affected by weakened systems, monsoon rain and flooding.
SIN
Direct tropical cyclones are rare; indirect rain and regional knock-on delays matter more.
TPE · KHH
Frequent track exposure with major wind, rain and airport impacts.
OKA · KIX · HND
Okinawa is exposed earlier and more often than Tokyo or Hokkaido.
ICN · PUS · CJU
Jeju and the coasts see far more landfalls than inland Seoul.
HKG
Only two direct strikes since 1987, but the flight-stopping storm signal is raised almost every year.
DAD · HUI · HAN
Storms land between Hue and Da Nang far more than anywhere else; Ho Chi Minh City in the south is rarely affected.
GUM · SPN
The only entry here with no real off-season — a typhoon can strike within three days at any time of year.
A different kind of risk
Indonesia sits close enough to the equator that it is rarely reached by a named tropical cyclone at all. Its real aviation risk is volcanic ash: several volcanoes carry active advisories most of the year, and that risk does not run on a season the way a typhoon does.
Jakarta–Denpasar flights already fly directly through SEMERU's current ash advisory.
Not seasonal: an ash advisory is issued when a volcano is erupting, not on a calendar, so there is no month-by-month chart to draw for it. View live volcanic ash advisories →