Hangzhou
City in China: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Huanglong & Broken Bridge - Hangzhou City & West Lake near Broken Bridge: User:CatOnMars, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Hangzhou is a city in China, in Zhejiang. About 11.9 million people live in the city proper, making it the 10th largest city of China in our atlas.
It lies at 30.29° N, 120.16° E, about 12 m (39 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Shanghai time zone.
Location
Red dot: Hangzhou. Green dots: other major cities of China. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Hangzhou has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 32°C (90°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -1°C (30°F). Around 1,426 mm (56 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
- Shaoxing · 51 km
- Huzhou · 64 km
- Jiaxing · 76 km
- Puyang · 96 km
- Cixi · 105 km
- Yiwu · 109 km
- Suzhou · 120 km
- Yixing · 123 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1808926 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q4970 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Huanglong & Broken Bridge - Hangzhou City & West Lake near Broken Bridge: User:CatOnMars, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- West Lake - Hangzhou, China: Louisa Salazar, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hangzhou-yellow-dragon-stad: Daveswagon at English Wikipedia, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Main Hall of Zhejiang Museum Gushan Branch 2012: LukeLOU, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 20230523杭州之门: MasaneMiyaPA, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- China Silk Museum, 2017-11-12 01: Siyuwj, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hangzhou Zoo 03: Huandy618, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gongchen Bridge 02 2013-07: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
