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December hurricane history: every day, 1842 to 2026

926 storms on record were active in December between 1845 and 2025. 774 formed and 335 came ashore during the month. The date with the most storms on record is December 11, with 221. The strongest storm active in December was Typhoon Ruth (1955), with a peak 1-minute sustained wind of 180 kt (207 mph), recorded by JTWC.

Dates are calendar dates in UTC. Archive of September 29, 2026.

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Every day in December

Storms active on each date, and how many came ashore that day.

Sources. Storm tracks and events from NOAA's best-track archives, exactly as the Hurricane Calendar app shows them. Dates are calendar dates in UTC. Each wind speed keeps the agency that recorded it and its averaging period; nothing is converted between agencies. A missing value is shown as not recorded, never as zero. Storms that may still have been active when the archive was updated are left out.

International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) v04r01, all basins (CSV), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Retrieved 2026-09-26.
HURDAT2 Atlantic hurricane database, 1851-2025 (released 2026-09-12), NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC). Retrieved 2026-09-26.
HURDAT2 Northeast and North Central Pacific hurricane database, 1949-2025 (released 2026-09-14), NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) and Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC). Retrieved 2026-09-26.