Port-au-Prince
Capital of Haiti: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Port-au-Prince is the capital of Haiti, in Ouest. About 1.2 million people live in the city proper, making it the 1st largest city of Haiti in our atlas.
It lies at 18.54° N, 72.34° W, about 27 m (89 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the America/Port-au-Prince time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Port-au-Prince. Green dots: other major cities of Haiti. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Port-au-Prince has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 32°C (90°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 22°C (72°F). Around 509 mm (20 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Oct.
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 HaitiNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Delmas · 4 km
- Cité Soleil · 4 km
- Carrefour · 7 km
- Pétionville · 7 km
- Croix-des-Bouquets · 12 km
- Saint-Marc · 74 km
- Dessalines · 82 km
- Port-de-Paix · 163 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 3718426 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q33707894 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Palacio presidencial de Haiti: MichelleWalz (Michelle Walz Eriksson), CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MUPANAH entrance: Charles Jong, government staff photographer for Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Central Market, Port-au-Prince: book by Jacques Nicolas Léger, photo uncredited, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
