Travel guide: Yiwu Airport, China (YIW)

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Travel essentials for Yiwu Airport, China — what to expect on the ground. Yiwu Airport sits in China (Asia), in a subtropical climate band — subtropical northern-hemisphere band with mild winters and warm summers. Airport IATA code YIW serves the area. Local timezone is Asia/Shanghai, which matters for arrivals and check-ins. It sits at 29.34°, 120.03° — useful for weather, daylight, and route planning. Use the live tools below to plan around these facts.

RegionChina, Asia
Climate bandsubtropical northern-hemisphere band with mild winters and warm summers
Airport IATA code YIW
TimezoneAsia/Shanghai
Coordinates29.34, 120.03
Located in the Northern Hemisphere

YIW is the airport code for Yiwu Airport, serving Yiwu, a city in central Zhejiang Province in eastern China, famous worldwide as the home of the largest wholesale market for small goods on earth. Yiwu International Trade City, often called the Futian Market, is a vast complex of tens of thousands of shops selling everything from toys and jewellery to tools and decorations, and much of the world's everyday manufactured goods passes through it, exported to over a hundred countries. The city has grown enormously on this trade, drawing merchants from across the globe, and is also a terminus of long-distance freight railways linking China with Europe. Yiwu is a modern commercial city rather than a scenic destination. It is reached by flights into its airport, about 300 kilometres from Shanghai, and by high-speed rail. The climate is humid subtropical, with hot summers and cool winters.

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Frequently asked questions

What is YIW airport?
YIW is Yiwu Airport, serving the city of Yiwu in central Zhejiang Province, eastern China. It connects this major trading city, home of the world's largest small-commodities wholesale market, with other Chinese cities. The airport lies a few kilometres from the great Yiwu International Trade City. Shanghai and Hangzhou are the larger gateways nearby.
What is Yiwu known for?
Yiwu is famous for having the largest wholesale market for small commodities in the world, the Yiwu International Trade City, or Futian Market. Its tens of thousands of shops supply everyday manufactured goods to more than a hundred countries, and the city is a global hub for traders and a terminus of freight railways to Europe.
How do you get to Yiwu?
Yiwu is reached by flights into Yiwu Airport, by high-speed rail on the busy lines of eastern China, and by road. It lies about 300 kilometres from Shanghai and around 120 kilometres from the provincial capital, Hangzhou, both of which offer larger airports and fast train links to the city.

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