Ōita, Japan: storm history

111 storms have passed within 50 km of Ōita from 1911 to 2025. The map shows Japan; search for a town in Ōita 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 Ōita

The record holds 111 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Ōita, Japan between 1911 and 2025. The busiest month is September, with 41 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 21 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 111storms within 50 km
  • 5major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 40at 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 Ōita?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression109%
Tropical storm4036%
Category 12220%
Category 21312%
Category 333%
Category 422%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2119%

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

Ōita storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 18 in 1990s.1910s51920s11930s51940s111950s141960s131970s111980s61990s182000s92010s112020s7

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1911, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1910s5
1920s1
1930s5
1940s11
1950s14
1960s13
1970s11
1980s6
1990s18
2000s9
2010s11
2020s7

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 41 in Sep.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr1May0Jun9Jul16Aug34Sep41Oct8Nov2Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May0
Jun9
Jul16
Aug34
Sep41
Oct8
Nov2
Dec0

Strongest storms near Ōita

  • Jean (1965)24 July 1965 to 14 August 1965, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 940 hPa
  • Yancy (1993)27 August 1993 to 7 September 1993, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 925 hPa
  • Goni (2015)13 August 2015 to 30 August 2015, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (120 kt), 930 hPa
  • Ryan (1995)14 September 1995 to 25 September 1995, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (130 kt), 940 hPa
  • Bart (1999)17 September 1999 to 29 September 1999, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 930 hPa

Most recent storms near Ōita

  • Peipah (2025)2 September 2025 to 10 September 2025, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 988 hPa, provisional
  • Unnamed storm of July 2025 (Western North Pacific)11 July 2025 to 14 July 2025, peak Tropical depression (29 kt), 992 hPa, provisional
  • Shanshan (2024)20 August 2024 to 1 September 2024, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 935 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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