Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

Port au Prince, Haiti (MTPP)

Location: 18.57N 72.30W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.57N, 72.30W) might not be the center of the island. Often the location of the island weather station was used, which is normally at the airport.
Please note that not only hurricanes (h1-h5) are included but also tropical storms (ts). Wind/category reported is maximum measured while the system moved through region (box). Each category storm has its own color (see color bar below; ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc., see the guide for definitions). Different projections can be selected, the island projections are most zoomed in (select if you want to see how close the systems passed by the island [not available for regions]), while the world projection most zoomed out (select when you want to see the complete path of the storm). Winds are in miles per hour. It is also calculated how close the center of the storm came to the island, the so-called closest point of approach (cpoa, in miles).

Below you can see all stormtracks since 1851 for Port au Prince (for more details about individual storms skip to another page where storms are separated per decade). In the climatology section there is also a weekly analysis of the data which shows when the real peak of hurricane season is for Port au Prince and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by Port au Prince recently.

Projection: Island | Caribbean | Atlantic | World |
[ts=tropical storm; h1=category 1 hurricane; etc.]

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 19 Aug 1851 69 ts 15 UNNAMED 27 Aug 1855 46 ts 62 UNNAMED 30 Oct 1867 69 ts 6 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1873 115 h3 60 UNNAMED 14 Sep 1876 58 ts 54 UNNAMED 4 Sep 1878 81 h1 11 UNNAMED 25 Sep 1878 81 h1 10 UNNAMED 6 Sep 1883 92 h1 43 UNNAMED 15 Aug 1886 92 h1 3 UNNAMED 21 Oct 1886 40 ts 28 UNNAMED 11 Oct 1887 52 ts 62 UNNAMED 22 Sep 1894 86 h1 7 UNNAMED 29 Jul 1899 58 ts 52 UNNAMED 1 Sep 1899 63 ts 7 UNNAMED 2 Sep 1900 40 ts 28 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1901 40 ts 21 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1908 81 h1 21 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1909 75 h1 15 UNNAMED 24 Aug 1910 40 ts 8 UNNAMED 8 Sep 1910 81 h1 55 UNNAMED 4 Sep 1930 69 ts 17 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1931 46 ts 25 UNNAMED 28 Sep 1932 86 h1 39 UNNAMED 9 Aug 1938 40 ts 43 UNNAMED 17 Oct 1955 109 h2 49 KATIE 1 Sep 1958 109 h2 58 ELLA 15 Sep 1958 46 ts 28 GERDA 4 Oct 1963 150 h4 51 FLORA 24 Aug 1964 150 h4 63 CLEO 29 Sep 1966 115 h3 28 INEZ 11 Sep 1967 92 h1 65 BEULAH 1 Sep 1979 115 h3 53 DAVID 23 Sep 1987 81 h1 60 EMILY 23 Sep 1998 75 h1 32 GEORGES 23 Oct 2005 52 ts 7 ALPHA 29 Oct 2007 52 ts 23 NOEL 12 Dec 2007 46 ts 36 OLGA 16 Aug 2008 46 ts 13 FAY 26 Aug 2008 81 h1 46 GUSTAV 25 Aug 2012 63 ts 32 ISAAC

Port au Prince, Haiti: all dec peak 5yr rank

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