Lạng Sơn, Vietnam: storm history

102 storms have passed within 50 km of Lạng Sơn from 1893 to 2025. The map shows Vietnam; search for a town in Lạng Sơn 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 Lạng Sơn

The record holds 102 tropical cyclones whose tracks passed within 50 km of Lạng Sơn, Vietnam between 1893 and 2025. The busiest month is July, with 34 of them. The strongest, measured where each came closest to the place, reached category 3 strength. 39 of the storms have no wind speed in the record.

  • 102storms within 50 km
  • 2major (category 3 to 5) near here
  • 11at 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 Lạng Sơn?

Category near hereStormsShare
Tropical depression1515%
Tropical storm3736%
Category 177%
Category 222%
Category 322%
Category 400%
Category 500%
Unknown intensity3938%

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

Lạng Sơn storms over time

Storms by decade
Bar chart of storms by period. The most is 13 in 1960s.1890s11900s41910s21920s21930s51940s11950s81960s131970s121980s131990s122000s72010s132020s9

The 2020s only run to 2025, so that bar is for a shorter period. This place's record starts in 1893, and records before the satellite era (about the 1960s) are far less complete.

Show the numbers
PeriodCount
1890s1
1900s4
1910s2
1920s2
1930s5
1940s1
1950s8
1960s13
1970s12
1980s13
1990s12
2000s7
2010s13
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 34 in Jul.Jan0Feb0Mar0Apr0May2Jun10Jul34Aug27Sep18Oct9Nov2Dec0
Show the numbers
PeriodCount
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun10
Jul34
Aug27
Sep18
Oct9
Nov2
Dec0

Strongest storms near Lạng Sơn

  • Yagi (2024)30 August 2024 to 9 September 2024, Category 3 (110 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (145 kt), 915 hPa
  • Rammasun (2014)9 July 2014 to 20 July 2014, Category 3 (100 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 935 hPa
  • Sally (1996)2 September 1996 to 10 September 1996, Category 2 (95 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 940 hPa
  • Krovanh (2003)13 August 2003 to 26 August 2003, peak Category 2 (90 kt), 970 hPa
  • Freda (1965)6 July 1965 to 16 July 1965, Category 1 (80 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (140 kt), 925 hPa

Most recent storms near Lạng Sơn

  • Matmo (2025)30 September 2025 to 6 October 2025, Category 1 (64 kt) near here, peak Category 2 (89 kt), 975 hPa, provisional
  • Ragasa (2025)16 September 2025 to 25 September 2025, Tropical storm (40 kt) near here, peak Category 5 (144 kt), 905 hPa, provisional
  • Unnamed storm of August 2025 (Western North Pacific)16 August 2025 to 19 August 2025, peak Tropical depression (29 kt), 1,000 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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