The city canceled all flights at its two airports and closed major attractions, amid a three-day national holiday.

Shanghai cancels hundreds of flights as strongest storm in 75 years makes landfall - Shanghai residents asked to stay home as train and ferry services suspended

Packing top wind speeds of 94 mph near its eye, Bebinca is the strongest storm to hit the city in more than seven decades.

Pulasan was expected to make landfall near the Chinese financial hub by Friday morning. Forecasters warned of potential floods and landslides.

Shanghai’s airports are canceling hundreds of flights Sunday as they brace for impact from Typhoon Bebinca, which is due to make landfall in the early hours of Monday morning

The strongest storm to make landfall in Shanghai in recent decades was Typhoon Gloria in 1949, which tore through the city with gusts of 144 kph. Shanghai was last threatened by a direct hit in 2022 by the powerful Typhoon Muifa, which instead landed 300 km away in the city of Zhoushan, in Zhejiang province.

Chinese authorities evacuated more than 400,000 people in Shanghai as the most powerful typhoon in 75 years bore down closing airports and disrupting rail and road travel.

Typhoon Bebinca struck Shanghai on Monday morning as a Category 1 storm, marking the most powerful storm to hit the city in over seven decades. The storm landed early Monday morning with wind speeds of nearly 100 mph,

Typhoon Bebinca has smashed into Shanghai with more than 400,000 people having to be evacuated in what is claimed to be the strongest storm to hit the Chinese city in more than 70 years.