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Tips--Climate in China

China is a vast country with different climates, but generally speaking, spring is from April to June, summer from June to September, fall from September to October, while winter is from October to March, and usually it is colder and drier in the north in winter, and hotter and more humid in the south in summer.

Beijing

has a continental climate with long, hot summers and long dry, cold winters. Spring and autumn have beautiful weather, warm and dry, but both are extremely short. Many tourists avoid spring because of the famed dust storms, but there are less and less of the dust weather and it does not last long. The summer rain falls during July and August, and can make everything fresh. So, we suggest you come to Beijing between Sweltering and Getting cold, which would be late August, early September. It's the best time to have a beijing tour. If you like ice skating, on ordinary streets and lakes, then by all means come between November and February when the temperature rarely gets above freezing.

Tibet 

is characterized with its unique plateau climate because of its altitude: thin air, 60-70% that of the sea level; less oxygen, 35-40% less than that of the sea level; lower air pressure, only half of that of the sea level; water boiling point is only 84-87 degrees centigrade. So, altitude sickness is common to new comers. Symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness ( AMS ) include headache, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of appetite and disturbed sleep. The symptoms will usually gradually decrease in severity during acclimatization.Mild AMS usually will not interfere with mild activity.
Climates are much different in different areas in Tibet and temperatures vary greatly within a single day. As there is little vapor and impurity in the air, the direct radiation of sunlight is stronger than that in other regions of the same altitude.


Yunnan

possesses a plateau climate like a changeable kid's face since rain and wind come and go without one knowing . A saying goes like this , " Weather varies within a circumference of ten lis (Li is a Chinese unit of half a kilometer ) and winter comes once it rains " . Even in the same area , one often sees rain here and sunshine in another place . So, we suggest you bring a coat to keep you warm when travel to Yunnan.

Guilin

winter is damp and cold. And it rains a lot from November through May. The coldest month is in January, average temperature 2 ℃ ~8 ℃. It may be said the winter does not have severely cold, but it always comes with strong wind in winter. The low-flow period of Li River comes from every Septemper to February of next year. During the low-flow period in winter, Yangdi Village becomes the starting point of the Li River Cruise