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About
Xiamen, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait. It is divided into six districts: Huli, Siming, Jimei, Tong'an, Haicang, and Xiang'an. All together, these cover an area of 1,700.61 square kilometers with a population of 5,163,970 as of 2020.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Xiamen, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Xiamen
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° / 23°
UV High
Sun
Overcast
29° / 22°
UV Very high
Mon
Overcast
29° / 21°
UV Very high
Tue
Overcast
28° / 23°
UV Very high
Wed
Drizzle
30° / 24°
2.1 mm
UV Very high
Thu
Drizzle
32° / 24°
3.0 mm
UV High
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
34° / 15°
Typical high / low
7 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
13.3h
05:24 – 18:43local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Xiamen
3 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport (XMN) at 8 km.
Getting around Xiamen
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
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.