Mount Hagen
City in Papua New Guinea: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Mt Hagen Cultural Show PNG 2008: Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Mount Hagen is a city in Papua New Guinea, in Western Highlands Province. About 33,623 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Papua New Guinea in our atlas.
It lies at 5.86° S, 144.23° E, about 1,728 m (5,669 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Pacific/Port_Moresby time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Mount Hagen. Green dots: other major cities of Papua New Guinea. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Mount Hagen has a temperate oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb). The warmest month is usually Dec, with average highs near 22°C (71°F); the coolest nights come in Aug at about 13°C (56°F). Around 1,983 mm (78 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, spread fairly evenly through the year.
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.
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- Mendi · 71 km
- Madang · 186 km
- Lae · 320 km
- Port Moresby · 515 km
- Popondetta · 547 km
- Kimbe · 653 km
- Kokopo · 903 km
- Arawa · 1,252 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2090409 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q1017362 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Mt Hagen Cultural Show PNG 2008: Jialiang Gao (peace-on-earth.org), CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)