Shizuoka, Japan: storm history

119 storms have passed within 50 km of Shizuoka from 1911 to 2026. The map shows Japan; search for a town in Shizuoka 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 Shizuoka

The record holds 119 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Shizuoka, Japan between 1911 and 2026. The busiest month is September, with 39 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 4 strength. 22 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 119storms within 50 km
  • 6major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 44at 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 Shizuoka?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1311%
Tropical storm4034%
Category 13025%
Category 287%
Category 333%
Category 433%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity2218%

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

Shizuoka storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 19 in 2010s.1910s71920s21930s21940s141950s151960s121970s71980s91990s102000s122010s192020s10

The 2020s only run to 2026, 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
1910s7
1920s2
1930s2
1940s14
1950s15
1960s12
1970s7
1980s9
1990s10
2000s12
2010s19
2020s10

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 39 in Sep.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May1Jun10Jul17Aug32Sep39Oct19Nov1Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May1
Jun10
Jul17
Aug32
Sep39
Oct19
Nov1
Dec0

Strongest storms near Shizuoka

  • Ma-On (2004)1 October 2004 to 10 October 2004, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 920 hPa
  • Ida (1958)20 September 1958 to 29 September 1958, Category 4 (120 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (175 kt), 877 hPa
  • Lucy (1965)14 August 1965 to 26 August 1965, Category 4 (120 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (150 kt), 940 hPa
  • Ida (1966)18 September 1966 to 26 September 1966, peak Category 3 (100 kt), 960 hPa
  • Roke (2011)9 September 2011 to 24 September 2011, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 940 hPa

Most recent storms near Shizuoka

  • Krovanh (2026)1 September 2026 to 9 September 2026, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (45 kt), 982 hPa, provisional
  • Chan-Hom (2026)7 August 2026 to 12 August 2026, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 976 hPa, provisional
  • Higos (2026)22 June 2026 to 27 June 2026, peak Tropical storm (54 kt), 989 hPa, provisional

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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