Anping Lighthouse is located at the Anping Port in Tainan. According to the description from locals in early times. The lighthouse was rebuilt from a lighted beacon that was set up in 1872 by the Customs of the Ching Dynasty. While, according to the official record, the building was originally set up as an iron tetragonal building, and started to shone since 1891 in the Ching Dynasty. Height of Light reached 9.9 meters above the high water level.

　　In 1909, the building was rebuilt into a tubular lighthouse made of bricks and stones. The lighthouse stands 5.2 meters high at the Anping Fort (or Imperial Castle) originally. The lighthouse was equipped with the sixth-class kerosene fixed lighting lamp, and height of light measured from mean water level is about 24 meters. In 1912, the lighthouse was re-equipped with the acetylene flashing lamp, which flashed the white beam once every four seconds with 350 candlepower light. In 1948, the lighthouse was re-equipped with the electric lamp with higher lighting power of 2,000 candlepower.

　　The lighthouse stopped service in March 1960 because it is far from the coast and the light was usually blocked by the coastal shelter belt of windbreak forests.

　　The lighthouse was moved to the beach in the north of the Anping Harbor in May 1965. The lighthouse was rebuilt as a tetragonal iron tower, measured 21.8 meters high. The Customs added a power generator room and dorms to keep the lighthouse in the custody. The lighthouse was also re-equipped with the fourth-class electric lamp then. The lighthouse thus started to flash white beams thrice consecutively every fifteen seconds with 15,000 candlepower light.

　　Height of Lighthouse: 21.8 meters

　　Height of Light (above H.W.): 22.6 meters

　　Nominal range: 15.2 nautical miles