Batangas, Philippines: storm history

137 storms have passed within 50 km of Batangas from 1889 to 2025. The map shows Philippines; search for a town in Batangas 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 Batangas

The record holds 137 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Batangas, Philippines between 1889 and 2025. The busiest month is November, with 29 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 5 strength. 47 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 137storms within 50 km
  • 12major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 34at 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 Batangas?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1712%
Tropical storm3928%
Category 11612%
Category 264%
Category 364%
Category 454%
Category 51<1%
Unknown intensity4734%

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

Batangas storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 18 in 1980s.1880s1900s1920s1940s1960s1980s2000s2020s

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1889, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1880s2
1890s7
1900s7
1910s7
1920s3
1930s8
1940s9
1950s7
1960s10
1970s15
1980s18
1990s13
2000s10
2010s12
2020s9

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 29 in Nov.Jan2Feb0Mar2Apr3May10Jun13Jul18Aug4Sep11Oct26Nov29Dec19
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan2
Feb0
Mar2
Apr3
May10
Jun13
Jul18
Aug4
Sep11
Oct26
Nov29
Dec19

Strongest storms near Batangas

  • Angela (1995)20 October 1995 to 7 November 1995, peak Category 5 (155 kt), 910 hPa
  • Nina (1987)16 November 1987 to 30 November 1987, Category 4 (130 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 930 hPa
  • Betty (1987)7 August 1987 to 17 August 1987, Category 4 (120 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 890 hPa
  • Xangsane (2006)25 September 2006 to 2 October 2006, peak Category 4 (125 kt), 940 hPa
  • Melor (2015)10 December 2015 to 17 December 2015, peak Category 4 (120 kt), 935 hPa

Most recent storms near Batangas

  • Fengshen (2025)15 October 2025 to 23 October 2025, peak Tropical storm (51 kt), 990 hPa, provisional
  • Ewiniar (2024)20 May 2024 to 2 June 2024, Tropical storm (60 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (85 kt), 970 hPa
  • Unnamed storm of April 2023 (Western North Pacific)11 April 2023 to 13 April 2023, peak Unknown intensity

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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