Wong Tai Sin
City in Hong Kong: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Wong Tai Sin is a city in Hong Kong, in Wong Tai Sin District. About 425,235 people live in the city proper, making it the 6th largest city of Hong Kong in our atlas.
It lies at 22.35° N, 114.18° E, about 253 m (830 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Hong_Kong time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Wong Tai Sin. Green dots: other major cities of Hong Kong. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Wong Tai Sin has a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate (Köppen Cwa). The warmest month is usually Jul, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 12°C (54°F). Around 1,400 mm (55 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 Hong KongNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1818304 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q8032027 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Lionrock: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Hong Kong Heritage Museum 201305: Wing1990hk, CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mong Kok Stadium all three stands: Ngchikit, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Jockey Club Innovation Tower, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August 2013: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 2024年10月-啟德體育園: 建園春秋, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kowloon Peak in 2020: 方畢可, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tate's Cairn (Hong Kong): Mk2010, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Tung Shan 01: Underwaterbuffalo, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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