Is it cold in Guilin in winter?

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Guilin is a prefecture-level city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a world-famous tourist city, one of the first national historical and cultural cities in China, and an outstanding tourist city in China. Its landscapes are world-class. Famous, it has enjoyed the reputation of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" for thousands of years.

Guilin is located at low latitudes and has a subtropical monsoon climate. It has long summers and short winters, four distinct seasons, and rain and heat basically occur in the same season. The annual average temperature is close to 19.1 degrees Celsius. July and August are the hottest months, with an average temperature of about 28 degrees Celsius. January and February are the coldest, with an average temperature of about 9 degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature occasionally drops below 0 degrees Celsius.

Topography

Guilin City is located in the southwest of the Nanling Mountains and in the middle of the northern end of the Guilin-Yangshuo Karst Basin, in the "Hunan-Guangxi Road". The terrain is high in the west, north and southeast, and low in the central part. The terrain is mainly mid-mountain or low-mid-mountain, and the peaks are mostly 1,000 meters above sea level. The main peak of Yuecheng Ridge, Maoer Mountain, is 2,141.5 meters above sea level and is known as the highest peak in South China. Pingle County has an altitude as low as 97 meters. The relative height difference between the peak and the basin is 600 to 1,600 meters, and the slope is 20° to 45°. The east and west sides of the city are low hills and hills, with an altitude of 300 to 600 meters and a relative height difference of 200 to 300 meters; the north and south ends are low and gentle hills. The hilly terrain has an altitude of 160 to 200 meters and a relative height difference of 10 to 20 meters. The central part is a typical karst landform with strange peaks and beautiful water. It presents karst peak forests and open and flat isolated peak plains and valley terraces. The ground The altitude is 150-160 meters, and the peak altitude is 200-300 meters.

Guilin City is located in the Guijiang River Basin, a tributary of the Xijiang River, with a rainwater collection area of ??19,288 square kilometers. The Lijiang River and the Xiangjiang River in the upper reaches of the Guijiang River are connected by a canal (Lingqu). The Lijiang River basin area within the territory is 12,565 square kilometers, and the main stream is 295.27 kilometers long. The measured multi-year average runoff is 12.895 billion cubic meters, and the multi-year average flow is 408.9 cubic meters/second. At Majiang Station in the lower reaches of the Guijiang River, the multi-year average runoff is 17.5 billion cubic meters; the flood season flow is 14.52 billion cubic meters, accounting for 81% of the annual runoff; the average sand content is 0.13 kg/cubic meter, and the erosion modulus is 129 tons /km2. The Li River meanders from north to south, and its main tributaries include the Taohua River, Xiaodong River, Nanxi River, Liangfeng River (Acacia River), and Ningyuan River.

The tributaries of the Yangtze River system are distributed in Ziyuan County in the northeast of the city, with a drainage area of ??8,283 square kilometers, accounting for 3.5% of the total area of ??Guangxi. There are 30 rivers over 50 square kilometers in the basin area, with a total runoff of 9.31 billion cubic meters, accounting for 5% of the total runoff in the region, and a runoff depth of 1124 mm; the main rivers are the Xiangjiang River and Zishui, which flow into Dongting in Hunan. The lake flows back into the Yangtze River.