Hurricane History Map

Chiang Mai, Thailand: storm history

27 storms have passed within 50 km of Chiang Mai from 1947 to 2025. The map shows Thailand; search for a town in Chiang Mai 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 Chiang Mai

The record holds 27 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Chiang Mai, Thailand between 1947 and 2025. The busiest month is August, with 10 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached tropical storm strength. 17 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 27storms within 50 km
  • 0major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 0at 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 Chiang Mai?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression933%
Tropical storm14%
Category 100%
Category 200%
Category 300%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity1763%

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

Chiang Mai storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 6 in 1960s.1940s11950s11960s61970s61980s51990s32000s22010s12020s2

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1947, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

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PeriodCount
1940s1
1950s1
1960s6
1970s6
1980s5
1990s3
2000s2
2010s1
2020s2

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 10 in Aug.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May3Jun0Jul2Aug10Sep8Oct4Nov0Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May3
Jun0
Jul2
Aug10
Sep8
Oct4
Nov0
Dec0

Strongest storms near Chiang Mai

  • Nargis (2008)25 April 2008 to 4 May 2008, Tropical storm (40 kt) near here, peak Category 4 (115 kt), 962 hPa

Most recent storms near Chiang Mai

  • Kajiki (2025)21 August 2025 to 27 August 2025, Unknown intensity near here, peak Category 2 (93 kt), 950 hPa, provisional
  • Unnamed storm of May 2022 (North Indian)20 May 2022, peak Tropical depression (28 kt), 999 hPa
  • Bebinca (2018)9 August 2018 to 17 August 2018, Tropical depression (25 kt) near here, peak Tropical storm (60 kt), 985 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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