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Around twenty storms enter Philippine waters a year and eight or nine come ashore. Where matters as much as when: Cagayan Valley, Bicol and Eastern Visayas take most of them, while Palawan and the western Visayas are hit far less. The tracks also shift south as the season runs on, so mid-year is worst in the north and the later months worst for the central islands. From Wind Signal No. 3 the airports under it generally stop.

Two seasons rather than one: a smaller peak before the monsoon in May, and the real one through October and November. Fewer storms form here than in the Pacific, but the Bay of Bengal is shallow and funnel-shaped, so it is the surge they push ashore that closes the coast. Andhra Pradesh and Odisha take most of the landfalls; the Arabian Sea side at Mumbai and Goa is far quieter.

Guangdong and Fujian take most of the landfalls, but Shanghai loses more flights to storms that never arrive — a track running north up the coast is enough to empty Pudong without making landfall at all.

The two coasts have opposite bad seasons: Phuket and the Andaman side are wettest from May to October, the Gulf and Samui from November into December. Storms usually cross Vietnam first and arrive overland already weakened, so what closes a runway here is rain and thunderstorms rather than wind.

Barely a degree off the equator, which is too close for a cyclone to spin up at all — Vamei in 2001 is the only one on record anywhere near here, and it is in the archive on the main page. What delays flights is the afternoon convection of the two monsoons, and storms elsewhere in the region arriving as knock-on delays.

The central range rises to nearly four thousand metres and pulls storms apart as they cross, which shelters the western plain where Taoyuan sits. It does that by wringing the rain out of them, so the disruption is as often flooding and closed ground transport as wind at the airport itself.

Okinawa and the Ryukyus are in the path from June and take several close passes a year. Honshu's season is shorter and later — August into September — and a storm that gets that far north has usually weakened or begun turning extratropical, which widens its wind field rather than shrinking it. Tokyo loses flights to storms that never come near it.

A short, sharp season: almost nothing before August, then a few concentrated weeks. Storms reaching this far north are recurving and moving fast, which limits how long they sit over any one place but not how hard they blow. Jeju is on the recurve path and usually the first thing hit; Busan and the south coast far more often than Seoul.

Only two direct strikes since 1987, but the flight-stopping storm signal is raised almost every year.

Storms land between Hue and Da Nang far more than anywhere else; Ho Chi Minh City in the south is rarely affected.

The only entry here with no real off-season — a typhoon can strike within three days at any time of year.

Not one season but a moving one. Early storms form close by, in the western Caribbean and the Gulf; from August the long-track storms off Africa run through the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico; by October the western Caribbean is making its own again, which is how Melissa reached Jamaica at Category 5 in late October 2025. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao sit south of the usual tracks and are rarely hit. After a direct strike the airport is often the last thing to reopen: Irma wrecked the terminal at St Maarten in 2017, and it took years to rebuild.

September is the worst month, but October is not far behind: late in the season, storms forming in the western Caribbean and the Gulf turn north-east into the peninsula, as Wilma did in 2005 and Milton in 2024. Airports close ahead of landfall rather than after it — Tampa and Orlando both shut for Ian in 2022 and again for Milton — and the peninsula is narrow enough that a storm coming ashore on one coast can close the other.

Two coasts, and two seasons that overlap. The Pacific side starts in May and sees more storms: Los Cabos was cut off for days after Odile in 2014, and Otis went from tropical storm to Category 5 in about a day before hitting Acapulco in 2023, too fast for most travellers to leave. The Caribbean side around Cancún is quieter until August, then shares the Atlantic peak — Wilma sat over that coast for more than a day in 2005.

Direct hits are rare — Iniki on Kauai in 1992 is the one people remember — because the cool water east of the islands usually weakens storms arriving from the Mexican side. What disrupts flights more often is a storm passing close enough to bring flooding rain, as Lane did in 2018, or wind: in August 2023 Hurricane Dora passed several hundred kilometres to the south, and the pressure difference between it and the high to the north drove the winds that spread the Maui fires.

Rain, not wind, is what shuts Houston. Harvey stalled over the city in August 2017 and dropped more than 1,500 mm in places, closing both Bush Intercontinental and Hobby to passenger flights for days. Galveston took the deadliest hurricane in US history in 1900, and Ike's surge in 2008. The season starts early here — Beryl came ashore in July 2024 and left more than two million customers around Houston without power — and October is quieter than in Florida, because late storms tend to curve away to the east.

Low, flat and partly below sea level, so surge and drainage decide what reopens. Katrina in August 2005 shut Louis Armstrong International to passenger flights for about two weeks; Ida came ashore sixteen years later to the day at Category 4 and cut power to the whole of New Orleans. The south-west around Lake Charles took Laura and Delta six weeks apart in 2020.

Katrina's surge, around eight and a half metres at Pass Christian, did its worst damage on this stretch rather than in New Orleans. Mobile Bay funnels surge the same way — Frederic in 1979, Ivan in 2004 — and Sally in 2020 crawled ashore at Gulf Shores at little more than walking pace, which is what made it a flood. Mobile and Gulfport–Biloxi are small airports with few flights, so a closure usually means driving to New Orleans or Pensacola, and those are often under the same storm.

A coast that sticks out into the path of storms curving north. Hugo came ashore at Charleston in 1989 at Category 4. Florence in 2018 barely moved for two days and flooded Wilmington so thoroughly that the city was cut off by road; Helene in 2024 did its worst damage hundreds of kilometres inland, in the mountains around Asheville, which is why an inland airport is on this list.