Lahore
City in Pakistan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Eye Of Lahore (Minar e Pakistan) evening: Lime.adeel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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Overview
Lahore is a city in Pakistan, in Punjab. About 13.0 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Pakistan in our atlas.
It lies at 31.56° N, 74.35° E, about 216 m (709 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Karachi time zone.
Location
Red dot: Lahore. Green dots: other major cities of Pakistan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Lahore has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Jun, with average highs near 43°C (110°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 5°C (42°F). Around 591 mm (23 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jul.
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 PakistanNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Gujranwala · 68 km
- Sialkot · 105 km
- Faisalabad · 120 km
- Sargodha · 169 km
- Arifwala · 186 km
- Rawalpindi · 258 km
- Islamabad · 270 km
- Multan · 311 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1172451 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q11739 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Eye Of Lahore (Minar e Pakistan) evening: Lime.adeel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Minar e Pakistan: Irfan0552007, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gaddafi Stadium at Night: Younisjunejo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lahore Museum, Lahore: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Stadium f: Jawad ahmed ch. (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- July 9 2005 - The Lahore Fort-The five arches of the Shish Mahal: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Delhi gate from a distance: Hamzamahmood96, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Bagh-e-Jinnah Lahore Pakistan: Amnagondal, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore: Adnanrail, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
