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EASTERN PACIFIC · SEASON MAP

2026 Pacific hurricane season

Every recorded track, mapped · 17 storms · 2 Jun 2026–15 Sept 2026

ACCUMULATED CYCLONE ENERGY179.0

Season in progress, through 16 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC. Tracks and totals update as the archive and NHC best track are merged.

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2026 Pacific hurricane season: every recorded storm trackRecorded tracks of all 17 storms, colored by the wind category at each observation. Hover or focus a storm in the table to highlight its track.UNITED STATESMEXICOCUBACHINAJAPANPHILIPPINESINDIAGulf of MexicoAtlantic OceanPacific OceanPhilippine SeaArabian SeaBay of BengalAmanda: 2 Jun–7 Jun, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormBoris: 7 Jun–9 Jun, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormCristina: 8 Jun–11 Jun, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormDouglas: 1 Jul–3 Jul, peak 38 kt, Tropical stormElida: 14 Jul–20 Jul, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormFausto: 19 Jul–29 Jul, peak 90 kt, Category 2Genevieve: 24 Jul–2 Aug, peak 140 kt, Category 5Lala: 13 Aug–28 Aug, peak 115 kt, Category 4Hernan: 13 Aug–15 Aug, peak 40 kt, Tropical stormMoke: 20 Aug–25 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormJulio: 24 Aug–25 Aug, peak 45 kt, Tropical stormIselle: 23 Aug–27 Aug, peak 60 kt, Tropical stormKarina: 27 Aug–7 Sep, peak 125 kt, Category 4Lowell: 27 Aug–10 Sep, peak 140 kt, Category 5Marie: 1 Sep–8 Sep, peak 85 kt, Category 2Norbert: 9 Sep–15 Sep, peak 55 kt, Tropical stormFifteen-E: 13 Sep–15 Sep, peak 30 kt, Tropical depression

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Whole season

DepressionTropical stormCat 1Cat 2Cat 3Cat 4Cat 5Post-tropical
Every storm of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season. Column headers sort the list.
Amanda–40Tropical storm1004940
Boris–40Tropical storm1001480
Cristina–40Tropical storm1004380
Douglas–38Tropical storm1003670
Elida–60Tropical storm9902,210
Fausto–90Cat 29673,360
Genevieve–140Cat 59243,000
Hernan–40Tropical storm1003750
Lala–115Cat 49473,310
Moke–45Tropical storm9941,900
Iselle–60Tropical storm9881,450
Julio–45Tropical storm10011,520
Karina–125Cat 49402,670
Lowell–140Cat 59223,450
Marie–85Cat 29671,650
Norbert–55Tropical storm9961,890
Fifteen-E–30Tropical depression10051,240

17 storms with an IBTrACS 2026 hurricane season record. Tracks are the archived center positions, first observation 2 Jun 2026, last 15 Sept 2026.

Tropical storms16

Tropical-stage US-agency wind of 34 kt or more

Hurricanes6

64 kt or more, one-minute sustained

Major (Category 3+)4

96 kt or more, Saffir–Simpson scale

Category 52

137 kt or more at any tropical-stage observation

Strongest stormGenevieve

140 kt · 161 mph / 259 km/h

Lowest pressure922 hPa

Lowell, 5 Sept 2026

Longest track record18.3 days

Lala, full archive record

Storms without US-agency wind0

Mapped, but outside the counts above

QUICK ANSWERS

The 2026 season in brief

How many hurricanes were there in the 2026 Pacific hurricane season?

The archive records 6 hurricanes (one-minute winds of 64 kt or more) among 16 tropical storms, with 4 major hurricanes reaching 96 kt. Counts use US-agency winds during the tropical stage.

What was the strongest storm of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season?

Genevieve, with a peak one-minute sustained wind of 140 kt (Category 5) on 27 Jul 2026, 06:00 UTC and a minimum central pressure of 924 hPa.

How many Category 5 storms were there in 2026?

2 storms in the 2026 Pacific hurricane season reached Category 5 on the Saffir–Simpson one-minute wind scale: Genevieve, Lowell.

When did the 2026 Pacific hurricane season start and end?

The first tropical-stage observation is on 2 Jun 2026 and the last on 15 Sept 2026, from 17 tracked storms in the archive.

What was the first hurricane of the 2026 Pacific hurricane season?

Fausto, which reached hurricane strength (64 kt) on 21 Jul 2026, 00:00 UTC.

METHODOLOGY

Data sources and limitations

The map and totals are generated from NOAA’s IBTrACS v04r01 archive. A storm belongs to this page when the archive lists it in the Eastern Pacific basin for the 2026 season, so a December storm whose track ends in January stays with its season. Storms that cross between basins appear on the page of their archive basin only.

Counts use US-agency one-minute winds during the tropical stage: 34 kt for a tropical storm, 64 kt for hurricane strength and 96 kt for major intensity, on the Saffir–Simpson scale in every basin. Local agencies classify storms differently, and official season summaries can differ from the archive. Accumulated cyclone energy sums squared winds at six-hourly synoptic times, counting observations in the calendar year. Storms with no US-agency wind are mapped but cannot enter the counts.

The map frame is the same for every Eastern Pacific season, so a track that leaves it is cut at the edge. Lines show each storm’s center, not its size, rainfall or flood extent. Coastlines use Natural Earth’s 1:10m land data.

Archive retrieved

NOAA IBTrACS archive · Field documentation

Sources & methodology