🌆 Hiroshima

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Quick facts

Hiroshima is in Japan, a country in Asia. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Hiroshima’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

Where Hiroshima sits on the Earth

At 34.40° north of the equator, Hiroshima is about 3,825 km from the equator itself and 6,182 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the subtropics, where summers run hot and how mild the winter feels depends heavily on the nearest sea. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.

Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 55.6° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 1,381 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Hiroshima sees its longest day lasts about 14.3 hours of daylight and its shortest about 9.7.

Nearest cities on our list: Kobe (253 km to the east), Osaka (280.3 km to the east), Nara (307.6 km to the east), Kyoto (310.1 km to the east-northeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.

The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Hiroshima emerges at 34.40°S, 47.54°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Montevideo, about 790.2 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.

More cities in Japan

Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka · Sapporo · Nagoya · Kobe · Nara.

Coordinates are an approximate city centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.