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Typhoon Dolphin slammed into China’s eastern coast on Sunday evening, making landfall near Taizhou in Zhejiang province with sustained winds of approximately 151 kilometers per hour (93 mph), forcing the evacuation of more than one million people and triggering the cancellation of over 1,300 flights from Shanghai’s two major airports.
According to the Associated Press, Shanghai’s Hongqiao and Pudong airports canceled roughly 60 percent of Sunday’s scheduled flights as the storm pushed through the region. In Zhejiang’s Wenzhou alone, authorities relocated some 900,000 residents and opened more than 1,000 emergency shelters. Another 390,000 people were evacuated from Taizhou, the city closest to the landfall point, while more than 30,000 Shanghai residents were moved out of lower-lying flood-risk zones.
The storm also brought outer rain bands to northern Taiwan the day before making landfall in China, disrupting some Taiwan–China flight routes, and contributed to a deadly landslide in Baguio, a mountain resort city in the northern Philippines, where five people were rescued and seven remained missing as of Sunday, according to the AP. Philippine officials said monsoon rains intensified by Dolphin triggered the slide, which hit three houses in the area.
China’s National Meteorological Centre forecast 200 to 400 millimeters of rainfall over multiple provinces — including Zhejiang, Shanghai, northern Fujian, northeastern Jiangxi, and much of Jiangsu — through at least August 10. Parts of central and eastern Zhejiang were warned to expect 250 to 500 millimeters, raising the risk of severe flash flooding and landslides throughout the region’s mountainous interior.
Chinese state media reported that Zhejiang authorities suspended all ferry and cruise operations as Dolphin approached. Social media footage from Taizhou and the surrounding coastline showed the city’s seafront battered by large waves and high winds, with several coastal structures visibly damaged.
The BBC reported from Wenzhou that emergency shelters were at capacity in some areas and authorities were preparing for an extended recovery operation as the full scale of agricultural and infrastructure damage became clearer in the storm’s wake.
Typhoon Dolphin is the latest in an active 2026 Pacific typhoon season that has repeatedly disrupted eastern China’s industrial and transportation corridors. Zhejiang province in particular — a manufacturing and export hub — faces potential economic disruption as authorities assess damage to roads, bridges, and coastal facilities in the days ahead.
