JapanArtificial island

Chubu Centrair International Airport

6.3 km² of land in the Philippine Sea.

N 0.5 km

Ferry portsAirports

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

6.3km²

Area

11km

Coastline

measured on a simplified outline

Highest point

27°C

Warmest sea

August

670km

To the mainland

When to go to Chubu Centrair International Airport

Best for the beach from July to October.

The sea is warmest in August (27 °C) and coolest in February (14 °C). Comfortable swimming (21 °C or more): from June to October.

14°8°1°

Jan10

14°9°1°

Feb9

14°13°4°

Mar11

15°18°8°

Apr11

18°23°14°

May12

22°26°18°

Jun15

25°29°23°

Jul17

27°30°24°

Aug15

26°27°20°

Sep15

22°22°14°

Oct12

20°16°8°

Nov9

17°10°3°

Dec10

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days Best months

Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.

Airport on an artificial island in Ise Bay, Japan

Chubu Centrair International Airport is an artificial island in Japan. It covers 6.3 km², with 11 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 5 m. The nearest mainland is 670 km away. It was built by people.

Getting there

Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO)airport on the island, with scheduled flightsCar hire at NGO airport (Tokoname)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
Ferries2 ferry terminals on the island
670 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From July to Octoberbest months to go (from 30 years of averages)

Plan the trip

Ferries, stays and things to do

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On the island

What you find on Chubu Centrair International Airport.

2ferry terminalswaiting room for high speed boat
6hotels, guesthouses and apartments

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 4 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

100 %0–50 m

Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).

Size, for real

Next to islands you may know.

Chubu Centrair International Airport6 km²

Capri10 km²

Manhattan54 km²

5 km

All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).

Month by month

The weather on the island.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon high (°C)	8	9	13	18	23	26	29	30	27	22	16	10
Night low (°C)	1	1	4	8	14	18	23	24	20	14	8	3
Sea (°C)	14	14	14	15	18	22	25	27	26	22	20	17
Rain (mm)	73	80	118	146	164	198	225	161	215	189	90	81
Wet days	10	9	11	11	12	15	17	15	15	12	9	10
Sun h/day	3.2	4.0	5.0	5.8	6.2	4.9	4.7	6.2	5.0	4.8	4.2	3.1
Wind (km/h)	18	18	18	16	14	12	12	12	13	14	14	17

Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.

Recent years

Warmer and cooler years at sea.

Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	−1.4	−2.0	−1.3	−1.2	−0.5	−0.1	−1.5	+0.2	+0.8	+1.1	+0.4	+0.4
2021	−1.1	−0.2	+0.7	−0.2	−0.9	+0.3	+1.1	+0.8	+0.8	+1.3	−0.7	−1.8
2022	−3.5	−3.9	−2.8	+0.4	+0.4	+1.1	+1.8	+1.5	+1.6	+0.9	±0.0	−1.5
2023	−2.7	−3.1	−1.4	+0.3	+1.0	+0.2	+2.0	+1.4	+2.5	+0.7	−0.3	−2.0
2024	−2.6	−3.0	−2.5	+1.3	+0.5	+1.1	+2.2	+2.0	+3.2	+1.9	+0.7	−1.7
2025	−3.1	−3.6	−3.2	−1.0	+0.2	+1.5	+2.9	+1.8	+2.3	+0.7	−1.0	−2.1

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Chubu Centrair International Airport - North Wing - 01 — JKT-c · CC BY 3.0

Centrair Sky Town — Endroit at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0

JAL & ANA - Chubu International Airport — Emran Kassim from Nagoya, Aichi, Japan · CC BY 2.0

Chubu Centrair4 — Gryffindor · CC BY 3.0

Nearby

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q679345) · CC0
Outline	Natural Earth · public domain
Sea temperature	NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020
Climate	NASA POWER · 1991–2020
Relief, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Towns	GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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