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View Plans & PricingArea: 5,797 km²
Population: ~2.9 million (2020)
Weihai means "awe-inspiring sea" in Chinese. It is a coastal city in eastern Shandong at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula and was a former British leased territory.
7.0/10 — Residents enjoy a balanced lifestyle with modern amenities and cultural richness.
Weihai Dashuibo International Airport (WEH) has domestic flights. Weihai Railway Station and Weihai North Station connect to Qingdao and Yantai on the Qingdao–Rongcheng intercity railway. Buses and taxis serve the city.
Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai campus), Shandong University (Weihai campus), and Weihai Vocational College are main institutions.
Weihai lies on the Yellow Sea coast with a humid continental climate. It has beaches, islands, and is known as one of China's cleanest and most livable coastal cities.
Visit Liugong Island (First Sino-Japanese War museum), Chengshantou (the easternmost point of the Shandong Peninsula), Huancui Park, and Weihai International Bathing Beach.
Day 1: Liugong Island and history museum.
Day 2: Chengshantou and bathing beach.
Weihai is famous for fresh seafood, especially sea cucumber, abalone, scallops, and grilled squid. Try local seafood BBQ.
Buy dried seafood, pearl products, local snacks, and Korean goods (Weihai has a large Korean community). Main shopping is on Xinwei Road.
Local Vibe: Weihai is a clean, coastal city at the tip of the Shandong Peninsula. Locals are proud of their fresh air, seafood, and history as a former British naval base. The city feels calm, orderly, and a bit like a beach town that takes its history seriously.
Fun Facts:
• Weihai was leased to Britain from 1898 to 1930 as a naval base, and British-style buildings still remain.
• The city is famous for being one of China's cleanest and most livable coastal cities.
• Liugong Island, just offshore, is a major site of China's First Sino-Japanese War history.
Weihai locals speak their own flavor of Mandarin. Try these phrases to earn a smile:
吃了吗 (chī le ma) — Have you eaten? — standard northern greeting.
中 (zhōng) — Good / okay — Shandong usage.
哈水 (hā shuǐ) — Drink water — coastal Shandong style.
• Deng Shichang — A Qing dynasty naval officer who died heroically in the First Sino-Japanese War is commemorated on Liugong Island.
• Zhang Zhidong — A late Qing reformer and governor who strengthened China's coastal defenses, including in the Weihai area.
• Guo Moruo — A famous modern Chinese writer and scholar visited Weihai and wrote about its history.
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