Area

About Two Thousand seven hundred sq. km
Population density Amritsar district for 2011 is 928 people per sq. km. In 2001, Amritsar district density was at 807 people per sq. km. Amritsar district administers 2,683 square kilometers of areas.
Altitude

234.00 Meters

Population
About 2.5 million (District)
 
About 1.5 million (City)

Literacy


About 68 percent
Amritsar boasts of a commendable literacy rate of 67.85%. The male lead with a 73.58% literacy rate while the female mark a figure of 61.41%. The urban and rural literacy rates are equally exemplary at 78.37% and 60.65% against the total 69.95% literacy rate of Punjab.
Languages

Punjabi, Hindi, English

Climate
Summer 30 to 46 °C
 
Winter 0 to 17 °C
Monsoons

July to September

FestivalsBaisakhi -- The harvest season in April.
Gurpurab -- January, April, May June ,October, November, December
Deepawali--
October or November
Airport

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport
(Raja Sansi Amritsar International Airport)
IATA: ATQ ; ICAO: VIAR

With regards to Sex Ratio in Amritsar, it stood at 889 per 1000 male compared to 2001 census figure of 871. The average national sex ratio in India is 940 as per latest reports of Census 2011 Directorate. In 2011 census, child sex ratio is 826 girls per 1000 boys compared to figure of 792 girls per 1000 boys of 2001 census data.