Dali
Dali City is the county-level seat of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, China.
Dali City is the county-level seat of the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, China. Dali City is administered through 12 township-level districts, two of which are also commonly referred to as Dali.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Dali
- Airports
- Lijiang Sanyi (LJG), 111 km · Kunming Changshui (KMG), 272 km
- Stations
- Dali Fengyi Airport, 3.8 km
- Lijiang → Dali143 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · ¥65–90
- Kunming → Dali259 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · ¥125–165
- Jinghong (Gasa) → Dali405 km · quickest by road, 8h 13m · ¥210–280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Dali
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dali. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA lot of useful information is available from the cafes within the old town on day trips around the prefecture.
From Wikivoyage: Dali, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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