Macau
City in Macao: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Panorama of Macau Peninsula2021: Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Macau is a city in Macao. About 649,335 people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Macao in our atlas.
It lies at 22.20° N, 113.55° E, about 28 m (92 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Macau time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Macau. Green dots: other major cities of Macao. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Macau has a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 30°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 16°C (61°F). Around 1,600 mm (63 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 MacaoNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1821274 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q14773 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Panorama of Macau Peninsula2021: Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Macao Grand Lisboa200712: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Venetian Macau: Jimmy Yao (vixyao) on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Macau Stadium 17-01-2023: LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Centre of Makau: Андрей Суриков / Andrey Surikov. Original uploader was Сура at ru.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Veduta del Museo di Macao, Macao (Museu de Macau): Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Teatro Don Pedro V, Macao, 2013-08-08, DD 02: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mandarin's House, 2023 (06): Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Wynn Palace 201602: Doraemon.tvb, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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