Climatology

of Caribbean Hurricanes

San Juan, Puerto Rico (TJSJ)

Location: 18.45N 66.00W

Tropical systems passing within 60nm (= 69mi.) of the island. Used latitude/longitude coordinates (18.45N, 66.00W) 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 San Juan (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 San Juan and a five-year analysis to find out if more storms have passed close by San Juan recently.

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

1851 - 2019

date wind cat. cpoa name 5 Sep 1852 81 h1 49 UNNAMED 24 Sep 1852 81 h1 46 UNNAMED 30 Oct 1867 92 h1 8 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1871 115 h3 49 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1876 104 h2 24 UNNAMED 28 Nov 1878 69 ts 35 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1879 46 ts 57 UNNAMED 10 Oct 1887 69 ts 65 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1889 104 h2 53 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1893 115 h3 25 UNNAMED 14 Oct 1894 98 h2 55 UNNAMED 1 Sep 1896 98 h2 54 UNNAMED 8 Aug 1899 138 h4 33 UNNAMED 1 Sep 1900 52 ts 68 UNNAMED 12 Sep 1901 58 ts 1 UNNAMED 10 Sep 1908 69 ts 52 UNNAMED 7 Sep 1910 98 h2 65 UNNAMED 13 Jul 1916 52 ts 2 UNNAMED 22 Aug 1916 109 h2 26 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1919 52 ts 58 UNNAMED 19 Aug 1924 46 ts 39 UNNAMED 29 Aug 1924 109 h2 55 UNNAMED 3 Aug 1928 40 ts 47 UNNAMED 13 Sep 1928 161 h5 26 UNNAMED 17 Aug 1931 40 ts 40 UNNAMED 11 Sep 1931 86 h1 3 UNNAMED 27 Sep 1932 144 h4 19 UNNAMED 26 Jul 1933 86 h1 37 UNNAMED 9 Aug 1938 58 ts 42 UNNAMED 6 Aug 1940 46 ts 41 UNNAMED 14 Aug 1943 46 ts 57 UNNAMED 3 Sep 1949 46 ts 28 UNNAMED 23 Aug 1950 40 ts 46 BAKER 8 Sep 1953 40 ts 8 DOLLY 12 Sep 1955 46 ts 52 HILDA 12 Aug 1956 98 h2 28 BETSY 16 Sep 1975 52 ts 42 ELOISE 4 Sep 1979 52 ts 24 FREDERIC 8 Sep 1981 58 ts 11 GERT 7 Nov 1984 58 ts 32 KLAUS 18 Sep 1989 127 h3 12 HUGO 16 Sep 1995 109 h2 37 MARILYN 9 Jul 1996 92 h1 50 BERTHA 10 Sep 1996 81 h1 65 HORTENSE 21 Sep 1998 115 h3 21 GEORGES 21 Oct 1999 63 ts 58 JOSE 22 Aug 2000 75 h1 35 DEBBY 22 Aug 2001 58 ts 39 DEAN 15 Sep 2004 69 ts 27 JEANNE 11 Dec 2007 46 ts 2 OLGA 22 Aug 2011 81 h1 11 IRENE 7 Sep 2017 173 h5 42 IRMA 20 Sep 2017 161 h5 22 MARIA 29 Aug 2019 86 h1 46 DORIAN 24 Sep 2019 46 ts 46 KAREN

San Juan, Puerto Rico: all dec peak 5yr rank

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