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China

432 cities in the atlas · 225 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Beijing
Currency: CNY; Chinese Yuan
Local time: China Standard TimeUTC+08:00; 1 more
Calling code: +86
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A, C and I

Facts

China in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Beijing
Currency: Chinese Yuan CNYToday's indicative rate: CNY 1 ≈ USD 0.149Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: ChineseOfficial in part of the country: Uyghur, Zhuang, Mongolian, Tibetan and KoreanSpoken: Chinese, Cantonese, Wu Chinese, Uyghur and Zhuang
Time zones: UTC+06:00China Standard TimeUTC+08:00
Calling code: +86
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A, C and I220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 110police119fire120ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 1,406,585,000 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 9,596,960 km²
Internet domain: .cn
Land borders: Afghanistan Bhutan India Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Pakistan Russia Tajikistan Vietnam

When to go

Climate across China

In April, May, September and October, more than half of the 370 cities with figures in China have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Beijing	1°	4°	13°	22°	29°	32°	32°	31°	26°	19°	9°	1°
Shanghai	8°	10°	14°	20°	25°	28°	32°	32°	28°	23°	18°	11°
Wuhan	9°	12°	17°	23°	27°	30°	32°	32°	29°	24°	17°	10°
Guangzhou	20°	23°	26°	29°	30°	31°	31°	32°	31°	29°	26°	21°
Tianjin	1°	5°	13°	22°	29°	33°	33°	31°	27°	20°	10°	2°
Chongqing	11°	14°	20°	25°	28°	30°	33°	33°	29°	23°	18°	12°
Xi'an	5°	9°	17°	23°	28°	33°	33°	32°	26°	20°	13°	6°
Nanjing	7°	10°	16°	22°	27°	31°	32°	32°	28°	23°	17°	9°
Zhengzhou	5°	9°	17°	24°	30°	34°	34°	32°	28°	22°	14°	7°
Shenzhen	20°	21°	23°	26°	29°	30°	30°	30°	30°	28°	25°	21°
Cities good for going, of 370	41	57	97	251	253	122	83	107	317	280	110	45

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where China is

Cities

Cities in China

All 432 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

More cities · 340

Smaller places with an airport · 62

Airports

Airports in China

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 156

Photographs

China in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Beijing
Photo: N509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Shanghai
Photo: MasaneMiyaPA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wuhan
Photo: 螺钉 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Guangzhou
Photo: Tim Wu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Tianjin
Photo: kele_jb1984 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Chongqing
Photo: Jay Huang · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.