Typhoon Bavi Makes Landfall in China on July 11 After Affecting Japan and Taiwan
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Typhoon Bavi made landfall in Zhejiang province in eastern China on July 11, 2026, after bringing strong winds and rain to Japan’s southern islands and Taiwan. Authorities in Zhejiang reported that more than 1.7 million people had been evacuated as the storm approached.
China’s national weather center said Bavi was expected to weaken gradually after moving ashore. The storm’s passage nevertheless kept flood prevention and severe-weather preparations at the center of the response, including in areas beyond the immediate coast.
A large evacuation in Zhejiang
The evacuation of more than 1.7 million people was the largest reported public-safety action associated with Bavi’s landfall. The figure was reported in official Chinese reporting cited by the Associated Press, which said residents had been moved ahead of the storm’s arrival in Zhejiang.
The evacuation reflected the hazards authorities were preparing for as Bavi approached: strong winds, heavy rain and possible flooding. Moving people away from exposed areas is a central emergency measure during a major typhoon, particularly when forecasts indicate that rain and wind could affect large numbers of communities at the same time.
China’s Ministry of Water Resources held a consultation meeting on Bavi and flood-prevention measures. A government notice also forecast torrential to extremely heavy rainfall in Beijing, Tianjin and central and northern Hebei.
Those locations are outside Zhejiang, where Bavi made landfall, but the forecast showed that officials were monitoring the storm’s broader rainfall threat as it moved inland and weakened. Flood prevention remained a concern even after the system reached China, because heavy rain can continue to create dangerous conditions after a storm’s strongest winds begin to subside.
Earlier effects in Japan and Taiwan
Bavi affected Japan’s southern islands before reaching Taiwan and China. The storm brought strong winds and rain during its movement through the region, making it a cross-border weather event that required authorities in several jurisdictions to issue and later adjust warnings.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration recorded Bavi’s approach on July 11 and issued land and sea warnings. The agency later lifted both warnings on July 12 after the storm weakened and moved away from Taiwan.
The lifting of the warnings marked a change in the immediate risk for Taiwan, even as Bavi continued through its wider regional timeline toward and across eastern China. Taiwan had already experienced heavy rain and strong winds in parts of the island during the storm’s approach.
What happens after landfall
China’s national weather center expected Bavi to weaken gradually after landfall. That forecast shifted attention from the storm’s approach to the effects of rain and wind as the system moved inland.
For communities in and around the affected areas, the immediate concerns were flooding and the safety of people exposed to severe weather. The government’s rainfall forecast for Beijing, Tianjin and parts of Hebei indicated that monitoring and flood-prevention measures would remain important as the storm weakened.
Bavi’s timeline—from impacts in Japan’s southern islands and Taiwan to landfall in Zhejiang—illustrated how quickly a tropical system can affect multiple East Asian jurisdictions. Each location faced a different stage of the storm: Japan and Taiwan dealt with its approach and passage, while China prepared for landfall, evacuation and the risk of heavy inland rainfall.
In Taiwan, the July 12 cancellation of the land and sea warnings showed that the immediate typhoon threat had eased there. In China, the more than 1.7 million evacuations and continued flood-prevention preparations showed that the main public-safety response was concentrated around the storm’s arrival in Zhejiang and its expected weakening path inland.
Sources
- Typhoon Bavi makes landfall in eastern China as more than 1 million are evacuated, Associated Press
- Land, sea warnings for Typhoon Bavi lifted: CWA, Focus Taiwan / Central Weather Administration
- China raises emergency response for Typhoon Bavi, State Council Information Office of China
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