Why is it so hot in Zaozhuang? What's the terrain like in Zaozhuang?

It has something to do with the climate, but not directly with the terrain.

Zaozhuang belongs to the continental monsoon climate of warm temperate zone.

Zaozhuang is located in the mid-latitude warm temperate monsoon continental climate zone, with the characteristics of warm and humid climate in the south and dry and cold climate in the north. Influenced by natural geographical environment, solar radiation and monsoon, Zaozhuang city has the climate characteristics of good light, high accumulated temperature, abundant rainfall and both rain and heat, and the conditions of light, heat, water and gas are superior. The climate changes obviously in four seasons, with changeable climate in spring, more southwest winds, less precipitation and frequent droughts. Summer is hot, the air is humid and the precipitation is concentrated. There is little rain in autumn, and the air is crisp in autumn. Winter is cold and dry, and there is a north wind in Dorsey.

Zaozhuang is located in the south of the low hills in the south-central part of Shandong Province, and belongs to a part of the Huanghuai impact plain. The terrain is high in the east and low in the west, high in the north and low in the south, and inclined from northeast to southwest. The northeast is mountainous and hilly, and the periphery is the pre-denudation plain of Teng, Xue and jujube hill with an altitude of 100 m to 150 m. The southern part of the plain, from the eastern border of Yicheng District to the east of Xuecheng, is an east-west banded hilly region. Further south is the piedmont denudation plain at an altitude of 100 meters. The lakeside belt in the west and the canal belt in the south are lakeside depressions and transitional depressions with an altitude of 30 to 40 meters. At the southernmost tip is a hill.