| 1956 Pacific typhoon season | |
|---|---|
 Season summary map | |
| Seasonal boundaries | |
| First system formed | January 18, 1956 |
| Last system dissipated | January 1, 1957 |
| Strongest storm | |
| Name | Wanda |
| • Maximum winds | 295 km/h (185 mph) |
| • Lowest pressure | 910 hPa (mbar) |
| Seasonal statistics | |
| Total depressions | 39 |
| Total storms | 26 |
| Typhoons | 18 |
| Super typhoons | 5 (unofficial) |
| Total fatalities | >5,980 |
| Total damage | > $60.5 million (1956 USD) |
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The 1956 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1956, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1956 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical storms forming in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Fleet Weather Center on Guam.