Serang

Serang has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen: Af) with heavy rainfall year-round. Rain gets noticeably heavier from December to March.

The majority of people in Serang and Banten Province embrace Islam, but other religions coexist peacefully. Serang is often known as "kota santri" or the "city of pious people", due to the history as a traditional center of Islamic learning. The city hosts two of the major congregational mosques in Banten province, Ats-Tsauroh Great Mosque of Serang and Al-Bantani Grand Mosque, which hold the capacity of 2,500 and 10,000 worshippers respectively. Compared with the majority in Banten Province who speak the Sundanese language, some local residents in Serang also speak the Javanese language with a dialect similar to the Cirebon dialect of Javanese. The reason for this is that many Javanese migrants arrived in early 1527 to build the Banten Sultanate, and remained to form the base of today's population.

The city is served by Serang station, operated by Indonesia's rail operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia. The Tangerang–Merak Toll Road, part of the Trans-Java toll road, passes through the city of Serang. The road to the proposed Sunda Strait Bridge would start in Serang, pass through Merak in neighboring Cilegon city to cross over the Sunda Strait to Sumatra. The nearest airport is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in nearby Jakarta which is located approximately 29 km from the city centre.