Guilin
City in China: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
View of Guilin from Elephant Trunk Hill: Shujianyang, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Guilin is a city in China, in Guangxi. About 1.6 million people live in the city proper, making it the 101st largest city of China in our atlas.
It lies at 25.28° N, 110.30° E, about 141 m (463 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Shanghai time zone.
Location
Red dot: Guilin. Green dots: other major cities of China. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Guilin has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 29°C (84°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 2°C (35°F). Around 1,766 mm (70 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jun.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in ChinaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Liuzhou · 139 km
- Hezhou · 160 km
- Yongzhou · 183 km
- Guigang · 250 km
- Hengyang · 294 km
- Yulin · 295 km
- Yunfu · 314 km
- Qingyuan · 326 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1809498 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q189633 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- View of Guilin from Elephant Trunk Hill: Shujianyang, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Guilin Zengpiyan Yizhi 2012.09.29 11-31-22: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
