Guangdong · China
Jiangmen travel guide
Jiangmen is a city in Guangdong, China, home to about 4,798,000 people.
- Best months
- October to February
- Nearest airport
- FUO56 km · Foshan Shadi Airport
- Currency
- CNYrenminbi
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Language
- Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese
About
About Jiangmen
Jiangmen (Chinese: 江门), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. It consists of three urban districts (Pengjiang, Jianghai, Xinhui), Heshan, and the more rural Siyi (Xinhui, Taishan, Kaiping, and Enping), which is the ancestral homeland (侨乡, qiao'xiang) of approximately 4 million overseas Chinese.
Taishan, Kaiping, Enping, Xinhui, and Heshan are together known as Siyi/Sze Yup (四邑 Sìyì) or Wuyi (五邑 Wǔyì), the "four (or five) counties" that produced many emigrants who journeyed overseas to seek their fortunes in the late 1800s. Some returned, bringing newfound wealth and exotic ideas; others settled permanently, establishing some of the world's most important overseas Chinese communities. Many villages in the area had residents go off and settle abroad, and many overseas Chinese today trace their ancestry to Sze Yup, particularly in Southern Myanmar and North America.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Jiangmen
See
- Kaiping Watchtowers
- Tea Hut Park
- Aofong Hill
- Shangchuan and Xiachuan Islands
- Mei Courtyard
- Fortuna Spa Resort
- Guifeng Mountain National Forest Park
- Jiangmen Wuyi Overseas Chinese Museum
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Where to stay
Hotels in Jiangmen
1 hotel within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Jianghai Country Garden Phoenix Hotel | 4.2 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Jiangmen
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Jiangmen are October to February. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; June is the wettest, with about 346 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Jiangmen: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO), about 56 km from the city centre in a straight line; Zhuhai Jinwan Airport (ZUH, 71 km) and Macau International Airport (MFM, 71 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
There are many bus stations. There are buses from the nearby towns Zhuhai and Zhongshan or provincial capital Guangzhou. CKS runs a daily ferry connection with Macau. To travel to Jiangmen from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, you can take the Intercity Bus. The first bus leaves at 08:50. There are railway stations in Central Jiangmen, Kaiping, Taishan, and Enping, with direct service to Guangzhou, Maoming, Zhanjiang, and Zhuhai. Service from Jiangmen to points west is less frequent than between Guangzhou and Jiangmen.
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FUO · Foshan Shadi Airport
ZUH · Zhuhai Jinwan Airport
MFM · Macau International Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Jiangmen
Drink
Pu'er Tea（普洱茶）A type of fermented tea, with raw tea displaying a brick-red color and ripe tea presenting a deep reddish-brown color. Chaozhou Gongfu Tea（潮汕功夫茶）Chaozhou Gongfu Tea is the traditional tea culture of the Chaoshan region, renowned for its exquisite brewing techniques and tea utensils. White Tea（白茶）A lightly fermented tea made from tea buds and leaves. Sweet Soup（糖水）A sweet soup primarily composed of sugar, with added ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., simmered to perfection.
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Questions
Jiangmen: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Jiangmen?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Jiangmen are October to February. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 32 °C; June is the wettest, with about 346 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Jiangmen?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Foshan Shadi Airport (FUO), about 56 km from the city centre in a straight line; Zhuhai Jinwan Airport (ZUH, 71 km) and Macau International Airport (MFM, 71 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Jiangmen?
renminbi (CNY).
Nearby
Destinations near Jiangmen
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.