Oceania · Australasia

Christmas Island

One city in the atlas · one airport with scheduled flights

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Photo: Paul McFarlane · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Flying Fish Cove
Currency: AUD; Australian Dollar
Local time: Christmas Island TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +61
Driving: On the left

Facts

Christmas Island in figures

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

Capital: Flying Fish Cove
Currency: Australian Dollar AUDToday's indicative rate: AUD 1 ≈ USD 0.692Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: EnglishSpoken: English, Chinese and Malay
Time zones: Christmas Island TimeUTC+07:00
Calling code: +61
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Not recorded in Wikidata
Emergency numbers: Not recorded in Wikidata
Population: 1,500 (GeoNames, no reference year)
Area: 135 km²
Internet domain: .cx
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Christmas Island

On these averages, Flying Fish Cove has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in May to December.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
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Mostly sea in the model's grid cell: the highs shown run lower than on land.

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 Christmas Island is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

Cities

Cities in Christmas Island

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

Flying Fish CoveCapital1,355

Airports

Airports in Christmas Island

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

Medium airports · 1

XCH · Flying Fish Cove

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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Plan it

Plan a trip to Christmas Island

Tell us where in Christmas Island, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
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.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
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.

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