Kaohsiung
City in Taiwan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Kaohsiung Skyline 2020: 毛貓大少爺, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kaohsiung is a city in Taiwan, in Takao. About 2.7 million people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Taiwan in our atlas.
It lies at 22.62° N, 120.31° E, about 9 m (30 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Taipei time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Kaohsiung. Green dots: other major cities of Taiwan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kaohsiung has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually May, with average highs near 30°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 18°C (64°F). Around 1,765 mm (69 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
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
- Tainan · 43 km
- Taichung · 174 km
- Hsinchu · 252 km
- Taoyuan · 282 km
- Banqiao · 291 km
- New Taipei City · 296 km
- Taipei · 298 km
- Keelung · 315 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1673820 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q181557 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Kaohsiung Skyline 2020: 毛貓大少爺, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kaohsiung 85 Sky Tower 01: ．怪貓．, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tzaishan at nsysu: hmcheng, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 澄清湖一隅: 雅婕, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 遠雄TheOne 2017 11 04: Rogerwu0321, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Chang-Gu WTC: Chang-Gu_World_Trade_Center.jpg: 黃 zero derivative work: Luuva (talk), CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kaohsiung Lianchitan ( WEI, WAN-CHEN ): WEI, WAN-CHEN（魏琬臻）, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- China Steel Corporation Headquarters, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, April 2014: Surmoer, CC BY 1.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Han-Lai New World Center: Bigmorr, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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