Rawalpindi
City in Pakistan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Rawalpindi railway station 4: Miiqbal, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Rawalpindi is a city in Pakistan, in Punjab. About 3.4 million people live in the city proper, making it the 5th largest city of Pakistan in our atlas.
It lies at 33.60° N, 73.05° E, about 501 m (1,644 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Karachi time zone.
Location
Red dot: Rawalpindi. Green dots: other major cities of Pakistan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Rawalpindi has a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa). The warmest month is usually Jun, with average highs near 40°C (105°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 5°C (40°F). Around 1,002 mm (39 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
- Islamabad · 14 km
- Peshawar · 143 km
- Sargodha · 171 km
- Sialkot · 184 km
- Gujranwala · 192 km
- Bannu · 236 km
- Faisalabad · 242 km
- Lahore · 256 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1166993 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q93230 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Rawalpindi railway station 4: Miiqbal, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- A Pakistani Gate: Khalid Mahmood, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- RWPCS3: Neweditorpk, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ayub national park garden: Saadkhan12345, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Photograph of Sujan Singh Haveli in Rawalpindi from 1920: Unknown, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Jinnah Park-1: Inlandmamba, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ayub park Jungle world: Drsaeed90, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
