Shenyang
City in China: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Skyline of Shenyang 3: E2568, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Shenyang is a city in China, in Liaoning. About 9.1 million people live in the city proper, making it the 16th largest city of China in our atlas.
It lies at 41.79° N, 123.43° E, about 53 m (174 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Shanghai time zone.
Location
Red dot: Shenyang. Green dots: other major cities of China. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Shenyang has a continental (hot summer, dry winter) climate (Köppen Dwa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 31°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -18°C (0°F). Around 620 mm (24 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Aug.
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 ChinaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Fushun · 44 km
- Anshan · 83 km
- Panjin · 135 km
- Jinzhou · 204 km
- Changchun · 280 km
- Jilin · 345 km
- Dalian · 354 km
- Tangshan · 496 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2034937 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q11720 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Skyline of Shenyang 3: E2568, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mukden Palace drone view 5 (cropped & rotated): Techyan, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Олимпийский стадион Шэньян2: Savkovich Y, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Shenyang.soccer.stadium: No machine-readable author provided. Chopomatic assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Стадион Теси 2: Savkovich Y, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mao Zedong Statue- "Long Live the Victory of Mao Zedong Thought" 04: Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D., CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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