Check Typhoon and Closure Information
Check weather warnings, local decisions, school notices, and transport operations separately.
Rules change. Open the official sources below and confirm before you act.
For help in another language, call the advisory hotline for foreign residents1990
Disaster information changes quickly. Refresh official pages before every trip.
On this page (7)
Before you start
Use a reliable sequence: weather warning → relevant city or county → school → transport and essential services.
- Applies to
- International students confirming classes, work, transport, and campus services during a natural disaster
- Rule level
- Local government-, school-, and operator-specific
- Group
- Daily Life & Safety
- When
- Any time
What to prepare
Steps
Check the latest CWA warning, affected area, and update time.
Check the DGPA status for both your current location and your school’s location.
Confirm the school’s official notice; internships, dormitories, examinations, and campus services may have separate arrangements.
Check each transport operator and essential service separately and allow for changes, suspension, or delay.
Every step has its own link, so a single step can be shared.
Common mistakes, and what done looks like
- Problem
- Forwarding a closure screenshot without a date, location, or source.
- How to fix it
- Return to the official page and verify the update time, city or county, and affected area.
- Problem
- Assuming a work-and-class closure means every transport, medical, and public service stops.
- How to fix it
- Special and essential services may continue; check each operator’s notice.
What done looks like
You have saved four official entry points and can confirm the location, school, and transport status in one check.
Practice scenario
- Scene
- A student checking tomorrow’s plans as a typhoon approaches
- You will talk to
- School adviserSchool disaster-prevention and student-affairs staff member
2 questions
Sources and page information
This page is compiled from the public sources below. Individual steps are not footnoted to a source yet.
- 1
Official government中央氣象署
颱風警報與防災資訊(opens in a new window)https://www.cwa.gov.tw/www.cwa.gov.tw · Source page update date not recorded · We reviewed it on 2026-07-20 - 2
Official government行政院人事行政總處
天然災害停止上班及上課情形(opens in a new window)https://www.dgpa.gov.tw/typh/daily/nds.htmlwww.dgpa.gov.tw · Source page update date not recorded · We reviewed it on 2026-07-20 - 3
Official governmentDGPA
Work and Class Status during Natural Disasters(opens in a new window)https://www.dgpa.gov.tw/typh/daily/ndse.htmlwww.dgpa.gov.tw · Source page update date not recorded · We reviewed it on 2026-07-20
The tier is derived from the domain: a gov label is official government, an edu label is a university, anything else is other.
Page information
- Last verified
- Next review
- Review cycle
- 90 days (high 90 / medium 180 / low 365)
- Reviewer
- Not recorded
- Created and last edited
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- Other reviewed editions
- 中文No reviewed edition yet: Bahasa Indonesia · Tiếng Việt
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Get help from a person
- Advisory hotline for foreign residents in Taiwan
- 1990
- From abroad
- +886-800-001990
See the National Immigration Agency website for service hours and languages(opens in a new window)
University international office Contact the international office at your own university