Shanghai
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📷 MasaneMiyaPA· CC BY-SA 4.0上海不夜城 | Shanghai, the city that never sleeps
About
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. It has a population of 29,558,908 in the urban area as of 2025. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River bisecting the city.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Shanghai, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Shanghai
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
Overcast
28° / 20°
UV Very high
Sat
Clear
29° / 19°
UV Very high
Sun
Overcast
29° / 19°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
28° / 20°
UV High
Tue
Rain
29° / 21°
9.9 mm
Wed
Showers
30° / 21°
38.7 mm
Thu
Overcast
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
35° / 9°
Typical high / low
3 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.7h
04:58 – 18:41local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Shanghai
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) at 13 km.
Getting around Shanghai
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.
Sources
This page blends public reference data, climate/elevation services, and personal notes. Travel requirements can change, so visa and entry details should be checked again before booking.
- 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.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.