China Weather

China's weather differs greatly due to its expansive land that has varying degrees of latitude. The weather in China will depend on where you are positioned in the country.

Temperatures in China are different depending on whether you are north or south of the isotherm that crosses the Huaihe River-Qinling Mountain-souteast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. North of the isotherm experiences negative temperatures while south of it are positive.

There are five different temperature zones that determine China's weather. Starting from the northern most area of the country, China's weather has a cold temperate zone (north of Heilongjiang Province and Inner Mongolia.

From this zone follows the temperate zone in Jilin, northern Xinjiang, and the rest of Heilingjiang and Liaoning.

The warm temperate zone of China is in Hebei Province, Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi.

China's weather moves into a subtropical zone in the areas east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Qinling Mountain-Huaihe River.

China's weather then becomes a tropical zone to its very south in the Hainan Province, Guangdong and Yunnan Province Representative.

The weather in China during summer is usually hot and rainy, especially because summer in China encounters a southeast monsoon blown in from the west of the Pacific Ocean, as well as a southwest from the Indian Ocean.

In summer, China's weather can have temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius, such as Shanghai and Beijing, however there are hotter regions that hit temperatures of about 32 degrees, such as the Turpan Basin, Xinjiang.

The summer weather contrasts China's weather in winter, which is both cold and dry due to it receiving high latitude winds from the north.