Busan
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Busan, officially Busan Metropolitan City, is the second most populous city in South Korea, after Seoul; it has a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Alternatively romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being South Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" is South Korea's largest industrial area.
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The next week in Busan
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Clear
27° / 14°
UV High
Sun
Clear
29° / 17°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
29° / 17°
UV High
Tue
Overcast
30° / 16°
UV High
Wed
Rain
24° / 17°
8.8 mm
UV High
Thu
Rain
23° / 15°
4.7 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
22° / 12°
Typical high / low
5 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.0h
05:20 – 19:19local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Busan
5 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Gimhae International Airport (PUS) at 12 km.
Getting around Busan
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, Daejeon Metropolitan Government. Replica (this file) made by D6283.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.