Pacific typhoon season explained

The following is a list of Pacific typhoon seasons. The typhoon seasons are limited to the north of the equator between the 100th meridian east and the 180th meridian (aka Prime Antimeridian).

Period	Seasons
Pre-1900	List of Pacific typhoons before 1850, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
1900s	1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
1910s	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919
1920s	1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
1930s	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
1940s	1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949
1950s	1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
1960s	1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1970s	1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
1980s	1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
1990s	1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
2000s	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
2010s	2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
2020s	2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Seasons

Pre-1940

Year				Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage	Notes
									–	23	–	Guam typhoon	>1,965	Unknown
	–	21	–	De Witte typhoon	>4	Unknown
	27	25	19	Eleven	15,159	$4 million
	30	–	19	Unnamed	300,349	Unknown
	33	–	19	Unnamed	2,315	Unknown
	31	–	–	Unknown	338	Unknown
	28	24	22	Twenty-Six	1,185	$106.15 million
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1940s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names	Notes
											43	–	27	–	July typhoon	183	Unknown
	–	28	–	–	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	–	30	–	–	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	–	34	–	–	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
	–	23	–	–		>790	Unknown
	–	26	13	–		>3,798	Unknown	None	First official season to be included in the West Pacific typhoon database.
	–	15	10	–	Lilly	Unknown	Unknown	None
	–	27	19	1	Rosalind	Unknown	Unknown	None
	–	26	15	1	Karen	Unknown	Unknown	None
	33	22	14	1	Patricia	>1,790	$127 million
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1950s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names (JTWC)	Notes
											–	18	12	1	Doris	544	Unknown	Delilah Helene Jane Kezia Lucretia Missatha Ossia Petie
	31	25	16	1		1,185	$106.15 million	None
	–	29	20	6	Wilma	1,070	Unknown
	–	24	17	5	Nina	430	Unknown	None
	33	19	15	5	Ida	1,530	Unknown	None
	39	31	20	4	Clara	Unknown	Unknown	None
	39	26	18	5		>5,980	$60.5 million	None
	27	22	18	8	Lola	644	Unknown	None
	24	23	21	9		Unknown	Unknown	None
	33	25	18	8		>8,557	$755 million	None	Featured Vera, the strongest typhoon on record to make landfall in Japan.
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1960s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JTWC	PAGASA
	39	30	19	2	Shirley	>2,869	$69 million	Lucille Ophelia
	53	35	20	8		308	Unknown	None
	38	30	23	6	Emma	1,700	$325 million	Karen
	36	25	19	8	Judy	Unknown	Unknown	None	None	First season in which PAGASA names tropical cyclones.
	58	39	26	7		>8,743	Unknown	Tilda	Dading	Most active tropical cyclone season recorded globally.
1965	44	35	21	11	Bess	Unknown	Unknown	None	None	Record high eleven super typhoons formed, tied with 1997.
1966	51	30	20	3	Kit (Emang)	1,146	$377.6 million	None	None
1967	40	35	20	5	Carla (Trining)	Unknown	Unknown	None	Welming
1968	39	29	20	4	Agnes	Unknown	Unknown	None	None
1969	34	23	13	2	Elsie (Narsing)	Unknown	Unknown	None	None
Total						>14,766	$771.6 million	4 names	2 names
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1970s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JTWC	PAGASA
	76	26	13	7		>1,847	>$216 million	None
	70	35	24	6		617	$57.7 million	None	None
	63	31	24	2		1,169	$585 million	None	None
	39	21	12	3		>1,011	>$7 million	None	None
	55	32	16	0		>361	>1.55 billion		Wening
1975	39	21	14	3		>229,195	>$1.35 billion	None	None	Deadliest typhoon season on record.
1976	51	25	15	4		>650	>$1.16 billion	None	Didang
1977	54	21	11	3		>235	>$23 million	None	Unding
1978	63	30	16	1		>371	>$100 million	None	Atang Kading
1979	54	24	12	4		>541	>$2.24 billion	None	None	Tip was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
Total						>235,997	>$7.29 billion	1 name	9 names
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1980s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JTWC	PAGASA
	44	24	15	2		493	>$200 million	None	None
	52	29	13	2		>1,268	>$280.2 million		None
	37	25	19	2		805	>$2.41 billion		None
	32	23	10	4		>1,021	$397 million	None	None	Latest start for a Pacific typhoon season on record.
	44	27	16	2		2,919	>$1.1 billion			Second latest start for a Pacific typhoon season.
	57	28	15	1		1,355	>$243.1 million	None	None
	48	29	19	3		>905	>$508.5 million	None	None	Wayne was the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record in the north-western Pacific.
	32	23	17	6		1,402	$1.3 billion	None
	54	31	11	1		>786	>$503.9 million
	55	32	20	5		3,328	$2.24 billion	None	None
Total						>13,477	>$9.18 billion	4 names	7 names
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1990s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JTWC	PAGASA
	41	29	19	4		1,608	$5.25 billion
	38	29	17	5		5,574	$17.1 billion			Mireille was the costliest typhoon on record, until surpassed by Doksuri in 2023.
	40	31	16	5		399	$2.64 billion		None
	50	28	15	3		758	>$1.96 billion	None
	52	36	18	6		1,301	$8.14 billion	None	None
	47	24	8	5		1,314	$1.21 billion
	52	25	16	6		936	$6.88 billion	None	None
	47	28	16	11		4,036	>$4.59 billion	None	None	Most Category 5 storms in a single season on record. Featured two simultaneous Category 5 typhoons at the same time (Ivan and Joan).
	33	16	8	3		924	$950.8 million	None		Latest start for the first named system to develop, second least active Pacific typhoon season on record.
	45	20	5	1		976	$18.36 billion	None	None	Featured the lowest number of typhoons on record.
Total						17,826	$67.08 billion	5 names	6 names
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2000s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JMA	PAGASA
	51	23	13	4		467	>$13.12 billion	None	None	First year using names assigned by the JMA.
	45	25	16	3		1,193	$2.32 billion			Featured the closest tropical cyclone to the equator (Vamei).
	44	26	15	8		725	$9.54 billion			Featured Chataan, the deadliest typhoon to impact Chuuk in Micronesia
	45	21	14	5		360	$6.43 billion			Featured Maemi, the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea on record.
	45	29	19	6		2,435	$18.51 billion			Third most active Pacific typhoon season.
	33	24	13	4		629	$9.73 billion	Matsa Nabi	None
	43	23	15	6		3,886	$14.4 billion			Featured multiple typhoon landfalls in the Philippines.
	45	24	14	5		463	$7.73 billion	None	None
	41	22	11	3		1,965	$5.97 billion	None
	41	22	13	5		2,348	$10.29 billion		Feria Ondoy	Featured Morakot, the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history.
Total						14,471	$98.04 billion	21 names	13 names
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2010s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JMA	PAGASA
	29	14	7	1		384	$2.95 billion			Least active Pacific typhoon season on record.
	39	21	8	4		3,111	$7.68 billion		Bebeng Juaning Mina Pedring
	34	25	14	4		2,486	$20.79 billion			Fifth costliest season ever recorded.
	49	31	13	5		6,836	$26.43 billion			Most active since 2004, deadliest since 1975, fourth-costliest season on record.
	32	23	11	8		572	$12.92 billion			Most Category 5 typhoons since 1997.
	39	27	18	9		349	$14.84 billion			Saw each month having a named storm active since 1965.
	51	26	13	6		942	$17.69 billion			Fourth latest start for a Pacific typhoon season and second latest start for the first named system to develop.
	42	27	11	2		853	$15.1 billion			Second latest start for a typhoon to develop since 1998, first since 1977 not to produce a Category 5 typhoon.
	45	29	13	7		793	$30.23 billion			Fourth earliest start for a tropical storm to develop since 1949, third-costliest season on record.
	50	29	17	5	Halong	453	$38.96 billion			Earliest start for a tropical storm to develop on record, costliest season on record.
Total								28 names	28 names
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2020s

Year					Strongest storm	Deaths	Damage (USD)	Retired names		Notes
								JMA	PAGASA
	32	23	10	2		457				Featured the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record, Goni.
	41	22	9	5		585		Conson Rai		Includes the most intense typhoon ever recorded in April, Surigae.
	37	25	10	3		498		Megi Ma-on Hinnamnor Noru Nalgae		Most retired names on record by the JMA.
	29	17	10	4	Mawar (Betty)	191		Doksuri Saola Haikui		Third least active season on record and second costliest season on record. Includes the costliest typhoon on record, Doksuri.
	10	9	3	0		155		TBD	TBD	Fifth latest start for a Pacific typhoon season.
Total						1,886		17 names	13 names

See also

Parent topics

• Tropical cyclone
• List of environment topics
• Outline of tropical cyclones
• Tropical cyclone naming

Other tropical cyclone basins

• Atlantic hurricane season
• Pacific hurricane season
• North Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season
• South-West Indian Ocean tropical cyclone season
• Australian region tropical cyclone season
• South Pacific tropical cyclone season
• South Atlantic tropical cyclone
• Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone

Notes and References

1. Web site: Annual frequency of cyclonic disturbances (Maximum sustained windspeeds of 17 knots or more), Cyclones (34 knots or more) and Severe Cyclones (48 knots or more) over the Bay of Bengal (BOB), Arabian Sea (AS) and land surface of India. India Meteorological Department. Unattributed. August 31, 2010. August 20, 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110805212718/http://www.imd.gov.in/section/nhac/dynamic/ANNUAL_FREQ_CYCLONIC_DISTURBANCES.pdf. August 5, 2011.