Geography
Zhuhai borders the Macau Special Administrative Region (north and west), and 140 km southwest of Guangzhou. Its territory counts 146 islands and a coastline of 690 km.
The islands within the prefecture-level city of Zhuhai include a number of near-shore islands, often connected to the mainland by bridges or causeways (such as Hengqin, Qi'ao, or Yeli Islands), as well as some islands further away in the Pearl River estuary (such as the Nei Lingding Island) or the open South China Sea (the Wanshan Archipelago). Some of the latter are actually geographically closer to Hong Kong than to the Zhuhai mainland.
Zhuhai has a humid subtropical climate affected by the East Asian Monsoon (Koppen classification Cwa) and moderated by the South China Sea, with long, hot and humid summers with frequent thunderstorms, and short, mild and dry winters. Average highs in January and July are 18°C (65°F) and 32°C (90°F) respectively. It never snows and a frost has never been recorded in the city centre. Conversely, extreme heat waves do not occur as they do further inland.
| Climate data for Macau | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 17.7 (63.9) |
17.7 (63.9) |
20.7 (69.3) |
24.5 (76.1) |
28.1 (82.6) |
30.3 (86.5) |
31.5 (88.7) |
31.2 (88.2) |
30.0 (86.0) |
27.4 (81.3) |
23.4 (74.1) |
19.6 (67.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
16.2 (61.2) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.6 (74.5) |
25.7 (78.3) |
26.3 (79.3) |
26.0 (78.8) |
24.9 (76.8) |
22.3 (72.1) |
17.8 (64.0) |
13.8 (56.8) |
20.2 (68.4) |
| Rainfall mm (inches) | 32.4 (1.276) |
58.8 (2.315) |
82.5 (3.248) |
217.4 (8.559) |
361.9 (14.248) |
339.7 (13.374) |
289.8 (11.409) |
351.6 (13.843) |
194.1 (7.642) |
116.9 (4.602) |
42.6 (1.677) |
35.2 (1.386) |
2,122.9 (83.579) |
| % humidity | 74.3 | 80.6 | 84.9 | 86.2 | 85.6 | 84.4 | 82.2 | 82.5 | 79.0 | 73.4 | 69.3 | 68.8 | 79.3 |
| Avg. rainy days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 133 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 132.4 | 81.8 | 75.9 | 87.8 | 138.4 | 168.2 | 226.2 | 194.7 | 182.2 | 195.0 | 177.6 | 167.6 | 1,827.8 |
| Source: SMG | |||||||||||||
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