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Pakistan

50 cities in the atlas · 19 airports with scheduled flights

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Photo: Muhammad Ashar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Islamabad
Currency: PKR; Pakistani Rupee
Local time: Pakistan Standard TimeUTC+05:00
Calling code: +92
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C, D and G

Facts

Pakistan in figures

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

Capital: Islamabad
Currency: Pakistani Rupee PKRToday's indicative rate: PKR 100 ≈ USD 0.361Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Urdu and EnglishSpoken: Urdu, English, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto and Brahui
Time zones: Pakistan Standard TimeUTC+05:00
Calling code: +92
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C, D and G230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 1122ambulance15police16fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 255,219,554 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 803,940 km²
Internet domain: .pk
Land borders: Afghanistan China India Iran

When to go

Climate across Pakistan

In November to March, more than half of the 43 cities with figures in Pakistan have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Islamabad	17°	20°	25°	32°	38°	40°	37°	34°	33°	30°	24°	19°
Karachi	24°	26°	30°	32°	34°	34°	32°	31°	31°	32°	30°	26°
Lahore	20°	24°	30°	37°	43°	43°	40°	38°	36°	33°	27°	22°
Peshawar	17°	19°	25°	31°	38°	42°	40°	37°	35°	31°	24°	19°
Rawalpindi	17°	20°	25°	32°	38°	40°	37°	34°	33°	30°	24°	19°
Faisalabad	20°	24°	30°	37°	43°	44°	41°	40°	38°	35°	28°	22°
Quetta	10°	13°	18°	25°	30°	34°	35°	33°	29°	24°	18°	13°
Multan	21°	25°	32°	38°	44°	45°	44°	42°	40°	36°	29°	23°
Hyderābād	24°	29°	35°	39°	42°	41°	38°	37°	37°	37°	31°	26°
Gujranwala	19°	23°	29°	36°	42°	43°	39°	36°	35°	33°	27°	22°
Cities good for going, of 43	34	39	27	7	4	2	3	4	5	9	38	39

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 Pakistan 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

Cities

Cities in Pakistan

All 50 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 · 13

Smaller places with an airport · 7

Airports

Airports in Pakistan

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

Large airports

Medium airports · 8

Photographs

Pakistan in pictures

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

Karachi
Photo: Bilalhassan88 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Islamabad
Photo: Tahsin Shah · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Lahore
Photo: Lime.adeel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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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Plan it

Plan a trip to Pakistan

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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.