South KoreaIsland

Jindo

377 km² of land in the Yellow Sea.

N 5 km

Ferry portsPeaksLakes

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

In numbers

377km²

Area

192km

Coastline

485m

Highest point

25°C

Warmest sea

August

2km

To the mainland

When to go to Jindo

Best for the beach from August to September.

The sea is warmest in August (25 °C) and coolest in February (10 °C). Comfortable swimming (21 °C or more): from July to September.

12°6°2°

Jan7

10°7°2°

Feb6

10°10°4°

Mar8

12°15°8°

Apr8

15°19°13°

May8

19°23°18°

Jun11

22°26°22°

Jul16

25°28°24°

Aug15

23°24°20°

Sep9

20°20°14°

Oct5

16°14°9°

Nov7

14°8°4°

Dec7

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.

Korean island

Jindo is an island in South Korea. It covers 377 km², with 192 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 485 m. The nearest mainland is 2 km away.

Getting there

Muan International Airport (MWX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 61 km in a straight lineCar hire at CJU airport (Jeju City)Discover Cars · Affiliate link
FerriesSwimido-Jedo
2 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
From August to Septemberbest 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 Jindo.

4viewpointsCheupchi-San, Sunset and 2 more
3ferry terminals
195named peaks
6ruins and archaeological sites
21hotels, guesthouses and apartments
140restaurants, cafés and bars

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

Cross-checked with our atlases

Jindo in our other atlases

Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Jindo, each with its own numbers.

3beaches and covesCoastya
15mountainsPeakyas
2lakesLakeyas

Largest lake
0.64km²
Tunjŏn-jŏsuji
according to Lakeyas
Beach with the warmest sea
25.0°C
Geumgaphaesuyokjang
sea in the warmest month · according to Coastya

3 beaches

on Coastya, the beach atlas

Geumgaphaesuyokjang25.0°C
Gagyehaesuyokjang25.0°C
Seomanghaesuyokjang24.9°C

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15 mountains

on Peakyas, the mountain atlas

Yogi San
Deoksinsan
Sammakbong
Seokjeongmaksan
Mangjok-pong
Cheomchalsan
Jiryeoksan
Gainbong

7 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗

2 lakes

on Lakeyas, the lake atlas

Tunjŏn-jŏsuji0.64km²
Myŏngsŭl-chŏsuji0.12km²

Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗

The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 62 m above the sea. 95 % of it is below 200 m.

57 %0–50 m
38 %50–200 m
5 %200–500 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.

Jindo377 km²

Madeira Island742 km²

Malta247 km²

20 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)	6	7	10	15	19	23	26	28	24	20	14	8
Night low (°C)	2	2	4	8	13	18	22	24	20	14	9	4
Sea (°C)	12	10	10	12	15	19	22	25	23	20	16	14
Rain (mm)	35	52	75	117	125	171	257	244	161	72	54	42
Wet days	7	6	8	8	8	11	16	15	9	5	7	7
Sun h/day	3.9	4.8	6.1	6.5	6.5	4.8	4.3	5.7	5.4	6.0	4.6	3.7
Wind (km/h)	23	22	20	18	15	13	15	14	15	17	19	23

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	−0.5	+0.4	+0.4	−0.1	−0.7	−0.2	−3.2	−1.4	+0.5	+0.5	±0.0	−0.7
2021	−1.2	−0.7	−0.5	+0.4	+0.3	+0.3	+1.5	−0.3	+0.6	+1.4	−0.5	+0.1
2022	−0.9	−2.0	−1.6	−0.8	−0.7	−1.2	+0.6	+0.3	−0.1	−1.0	−0.9	−1.0
2023	−1.4	−1.4	−0.5	±0.0	+0.5	+0.5	−0.2	+1.1	+1.8	−0.1	−0.1	−0.1
2024	−0.3	+0.3	+0.6	+1.9	+2.1	+1.2	−0.2	+1.9	+4.1	+2.7	+1.4	−0.6
2025	−1.6	−2.0	−1.9	−0.9	−0.9	−0.8	+1.5	+1.5	+2.2	+2.6	+0.6	−0.4

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Photos

Seen by visitors.

Jindo 004 — myself ( User:Piotrus ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Jindo Bridge (16043482437) — old ccc · Public domain

Jindo Bridge — Doo ho Kim from Seoul, Republic of Korea · Public domain

Jindo 005 — myself ( User:Piotrus ) · CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Geojedo

South Korea386 km²580 m221 km away

Tsushima Island

Japan694 km²649 m282 km away

Hirado Island

Japan164 km²535 m328 km away

Iki Island

Japan134 km²213 m327 km away

Ganghwa Island

South Korea304 km²469 m362 km away

Okinoshima

Japan0.94 km²244 m354 km away

Hashima Island

Japan0.07 km²32 m382 km away

About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q485651) · CC0
Outline	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
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
Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls	Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

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

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