Da Nang Typhoon Season: What to Expect

A July 2026 outlook expected storms to concentrate in October and November across Central Vietnam, but Da Nang issued storm orders in July, August and September 2025 too. The legal river flood season runs 1 September to 15 December. National risk levels 3 to 5 grade storms by wind force and location.

On 26 October 2024, Storm No. 6 (Tra Mi) approached the central coast. The Da Nang People’s Committee chairman issued an official dispatch that asked residents to limit leaving home.

đề nghị người dân (trừ các lực lượng làm nhiệm vụ) hạn chế ra khỏi nhà bắt đầu từ 10h ngày 27/10

Translation: asked residents (except forces on duty) to limit leaving home starting from 10am on 27 October.

Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee, storm-response dispatch, quoted by Báo Chính phủ

Because the wording is a request, this guide calls it a stay-home advisory. Orders like this are dated and tied to one storm. Below you will find when the season runs, how Vietnam’s storm-warning system grades a storm and what the city ordered during past storms. After that come flights and what the law itself says about evacuation orders.

When Da Nang’s typhoon season runs

The July 2026 outlook is the latest forecast on timing: a climate forecaster at the national forecasting centre said storms were expected to concentrate in October and November in Central Vietnam, which includes Da Nang. He added that a smaller number of storms does not mean lower risk, and that strong or very strong storms remain possible, especially late in the season.

An earlier outlook, from June 2024, covered the mid-Central and south-Central parts of Vietnam, Da Nang’s region among them, and also pointed to October to December, but it covered that year only.

Storm orders are not limited to October and November, though. The Da Nang orders covered in this guide date from July 2025, August 2025, September 2025, October 2024 and October 2025.

The legal flood season is a separate thing. For rivers from Quang Binh to Ninh Thuan province, a stretch of central coast that includes Da Nang, it runs from 1 September to 15 December each year. It is a definition for river floods, not a storm calendar.

How Vietnam’s storm warnings work

The rules for how these warnings work come from the Prime Minister’s Decision 18/2021/QĐ-TTg.

Risk levels for Da Nang’s region

When a bulletin names a level, it is grading a tropical depression or storm of force 8 or above as national disaster risk level 3, 4 or 5. The grade depends on wind force and on where the storm is: the East Sea, coastal waters or the mainland part of Central Vietnam that includes Da Nang. The East Sea (Biển Đông) is the sea along Vietnam’s coast, and force is the Beaufort wind-force scale.

What a storm bulletin contains

A storm bulletin’s summary of current conditions must state:

• the storm centre’s position by latitude and longitude to a tenth of a degree
• its strength in Beaufort wind-force for both the strongest wind and gusts
• its direction as one of 16 compass points
• its speed in km/h

An emergency bulletin is issued once a storm is likely to directly affect Vietnam’s mainland within the next 48 hours. While emergency bulletins are running, the issuing authority must publish 8 main bulletins a day, at 02:00, 05:00, 08:00, 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00 and 23:00.

Who issues the bulletins

Under the Decision, the Vietnam Meteorology and Hydrology Administration issues the official forecast and warning bulletins and risk-level announcements for storms and tropical depressions, and the Decision places it within the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Since 2025, a government decree gives the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment state-management functions over meteorology and hydrology, among other fields.

That decree replaces the decrees that had set out the functions and structure of both the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Which unit issues storm bulletins under the new structure is unclear. The bulletin sites below are the ones Da Nang’s disaster-prevention command told its units to follow in October 2024, before that decree.

What Da Nang has ordered during past storms

Each order below is its own dated event for one named storm, not a standing rule the city follows every time.

Storm No. 3 (Wipha) — July 2025

On 20 July 2025, as Storm No. 3 (Wipha) approached, Da Nang’s official dispatch left the decision on a sea ban for fishing, transport and tourist boats to the authorities, to be based on how the storm developed.

Storm No. 5 (Kajiki) — August 2025

For Storm No. 5 (Kajiki), Da Nang ordered a sea ban starting 24 August 2025. The city’s dispatches for Storms No. 3 and No. 5 were published on its portal, danang.gov.vn.

Storm No. 6 (Tra Mi) — October 2024

Tra Mi is the storm behind the stay-home advisory at the top of this guide. The chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee asked residents (except forces on duty) to limit leaving home from 10am on 27 October 2024. The same dispatch told district committees to evacuate people living in boarding houses, temporary or unsafe housing and risk areas before 10pm on 26 October 2024. It also told coastal districts to have small-capacity boats pulled ashore before 10am on 27 October 2024.

By 6am on 27 October 2024, the city’s disaster-response forces had evacuated 1,677 households, or 6,205 people, to safety. They lived in boarding houses, temporary or unsafe housing and landslide or flash-flood risk areas.

A directive from the chairman, reported by Tuoi Tre, asked districts to set up checkpoints on deeply flooded roads and to keep residents, vehicles and independent sightseeing trips out of low-lying, forest, mountain and landslide-risk areas.

Storm No. 10 (Bualoi) — September 2025

For Storm No. 10 (Bualoi), Da Nang’s Department of Education told local authorities and school leaders to decide for themselves, based on real conditions in their own area. The question was whether preschool and school students would stay home on Monday 29 September 2025 and, if needed, the following days.

Storm No. 12 (Fengshen) — October 2025

For Storm No. 12 (Fengshen), several Da Nang wards, among them Hai Chau, Hoa Cuong, An Khe and Hoa Khanh, told preschool, primary and lower-secondary students to stay home from 22 October 2025 until further notice.

Da Nang airport during storms

Airport and flight closures

During Storm No. 10 (Bualoi), Vietnam’s aviation authority ordered a notice to airmen (NOTAM) that stopped aircraft arriving at Da Nang International Airport from 6am to 11am on 28 September 2025. Vietnam Airlines suspended its flights to and from Da Nang until noon that day, and the airport’s international-terminal operator suspended all takeoffs and landings from 6am.

Weather cancellations and airline compensation

Each airline’s own terms set when it is exempt from paying compensation. Vietnam Airlines’ customer-service plan exempts it from paying compensation when a flight is cancelled for force-majeure reasons such as weather impact. Bamboo Airways’ customer-service policy exempts it from paying non-refundable advance compensation when a flight is cancelled or long delayed because a weather condition affects safe operation. Vietjet’s terms and conditions, Article 10.3.2, also exempt it from paying compensation when a weather condition affects flight safety. These clauses are about compensation; refunds and rebooking are separate questions.

Following the official warnings yourself

The city itself names the sources to follow.

In a notice dated 10 October 2024, Da Nang’s disaster-prevention command asked the city’s departments, districts and units to closely follow forecast and disaster-warning bulletins at nchmf.gov.vn and kttvttb.vn. It also named the Facebook page Da Nang Disaster Prevention Information (Thông tin phòng chống thiên tai Đà Nẵng) and asked them to track rainfall at vrain.vn, and it asked those units to inform the public about the disaster situation.

These are weather and warning sites; the city’s own storm dispatches, such as those for Storms No. 3 and No. 5, were published on danang.gov.vn.

What the law says about evacuation orders

Article 34 of Vietnam’s Law 33/2013/QH13 on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control sets obligations. Among them: complying with the guidance, direction and command of the competent authorities on evacuating people and vehicles out of, or not entering, dangerous areas. It also requires complying with decisions of the competent authorities mobilising manpower, supplies, vehicles, equipment and essentials for emergency response.

For what heavy rain does to the streets themselves, see which streets flood in Da Nang. For storm surf and rip currents, see is it safe to swim at Da Nang’s beaches. More on daily life here: living in Da Nang guides.

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Not confirmed: Refunds or free rebooking when a storm cancels a flight: the compensation clauses do not mention them. Whether Da Nang also sends storm alerts by app, SMS or Zalo, or runs a storm hotline, and whether the channels in its 2024 notice still apply.

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