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Taiwan

12 cities in the atlas · 13 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Taipei; As recorded by GeoNames; status contested
Currency: TWD; New Taiwan Dollar
Local time: Taiwan Standard TimeUTC+08:00
Calling code: +886
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B

Facts

Taiwan in figures

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

Capital: Taipei (as recorded by GeoNames; its status is contested internationally)
Currency: New Taiwan Dollar TWDToday's indicative rate: TWD 10 ≈ USD 0.309Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Chinese, Min Nan Chinese and Hakka ChineseSpoken: Chinese, Min Nan Chinese and Hakka Chinese
Time zones: Taiwan Standard TimeUTC+08:00
Calling code: +886
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type A and B110 V · 60 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 110general emergency112general emergency119general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 23,451,837 (GeoNames, no reference year)
Area: 35,980 km²
Internet domain: .tw
Land borders: None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded

When to go

Climate across Taiwan

In February to April and October to December, more than half of the 8 cities with figures in Taiwan 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
Taipei	17°	18°	20°	24°	27°	29°	30°	30°	28°	25°	22°	18°
Kaohsiung	23°	25°	26°	29°	30°	29°	30°	29°	29°	28°	27°	24°
Tainan	22°	22°	24°	26°	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°	28°	26°	23°
Taichung	21°	23°	24°	27°	29°	29°	30°	30°	29°	29°	27°	23°
New Taipei City	17°	18°	20°	24°	27°	29°	30°	30°	28°	25°	22°	18°
Hsinchu	17°	18°	20°	24°	27°	29°	30°	30°	28°	25°	22°	18°
Keelung	18°	19°	21°	24°	26°	29°	30°	29°	28°	25°	23°	20°
Taoyuan	17°	18°	20°	24°	27°	29°	30°	30°	28°	25°	22°	18°
Cities good for going, of 8	4	8	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	8	8

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 Taiwan 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 Taiwan

All 12 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.

Smaller places with an airport · 4

Airports

Airports in Taiwan

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

Large airports

Medium airports · 6

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 Taiwan

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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.