Hsinchu
City in Taiwan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Hsinchu City Montage: Sleepingstar, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Hsinchu is a city in Taiwan, in Taiwan. About 453,536 people live in the city proper, making it the 8th largest city of Taiwan in our atlas.
It lies at 24.80° N, 120.97° E, about 22 m (72 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Taipei time zone.
Location
Red dot: Hsinchu. Green dots: other major cities of Taiwan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Hsinchu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 30°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 12°C (53°F). Around 1,914 mm (75 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 TaiwanNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Taoyuan · 39 km
- Banqiao · 55 km
- New Taipei City · 57 km
- Taipei · 63 km
- Taichung · 78 km
- Keelung · 86 km
- Tainan · 215 km
- Kaohsiung · 252 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1675151 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q249994 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Hsinchu City Montage: Sleepingstar, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 新竹市立玻璃工藝博物館: 寺人孟子, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hsinchu Baseball Stadium front: zh:新竹市政府, Attribution (Wikimedia Commons)
- New gate 1 of Hsinchu Zoo 2020: Taiwania Justo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Image Museum of Hsinchu City 20210116: Solomon203, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Aqueduct Museum of Hsinchu City: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Taiwan pavilion of Shanghai expo2010 in Hsinchu Taiwan: SSR2000, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
