Yilan (city in Taiwan)

Yilan 宜蘭 市
Yilan Railway Station
State :	Republic of China (Taiwan)
County :	Yilan
Coordinates :	24 ° 45 ′  N , 121 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 24 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 121 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	5  m
Area :	29.40  km²
Residents :	96,268 (August 2013)
Population density :	3,274 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	UTC + 8 (Chungyuan time)
ISO 3166-2 :	TW-ILA
Website :	www.ilancity.gov.tw
Yilan

Yilan , also: Ilan ( Chinese  宜蘭 市 , Pinyin Yílán Shì , W.-G. I ² -lan ² Shih ⁴ , Pe̍h-ōe-jī Gî-lân-chhī ), is the capital of Yilan County in Taiwan . It is located in a small coastal plain , mainly used for rice cultivation, in the estuary of the Lanyang River in the northern part of Taiwan's east coast, around 80 km southeast of Taipei .

The city has about 96,000 inhabitants and an area of ​​29.40 km². The name Yilan comes from the Kavalan tribes of the Taiwanese indigenous people .

climate

Yilan
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     147   20th 14th     182   20th 14th     128   23 16     138   26th 19th     212   28 21st     214   31 24     155   33 25th     248   32 25th     470   30th 24     442   27 21st     325   24 18th     177   21st 15th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau

Climate data from the years 1981–2010 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 19.6 20.2 22.6 25.5 28.3 30.8 32.9 32.4 30.3 27 23.8 20.8 O 26.2 Min. Temperature (° C) 13.7 14.2 15.9 18.7 21.4 23.8 25.3 25.1 23.7 21.1 18.2 15th O 19.7 Temperature (° C) 16.3 16.9 18.9 21.7 24.4 26.8 28.6 28.3 26.5 23.6 20.6 17.5 O 22.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 147 182.3 127.5 138.4 211.7 214.2 155.1 247.8 470 442 325.1 176.6 Σ 2,837.7 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.2 2.3 2.8 3.1 3.7 4.8 7.2 6.8 4.9 3.1 2.5 2.3 O 3.8 Rainy days ( d ) 18.3 17.4 18th 16 18.4 15th 9.2 12 16.1 18.4 19.2 17.6 Σ 195.6 Source: Taiwan Central Weather Bureau

Web links

• English version of the Yilan City website

Individual evidence