Is it cold in winter in Sichuan?

The lowest temperature in winter in Sichuan is around -2 degrees Celsius. The general characteristics of climate in Sichuan are: significant regional differences, warm winter in the east, dry spring, hot summer, rainy autumn, cloudy weather, less sunshine, long growing period, cold winter in the west, basically no summer, abundant sunshine, concentrated precipitation and clear dry and wet seasons; The vertical climate changes greatly and there are many climate types.

Subtropical and semi-humid climate zone in southern Sichuan. There are few clouds, many sunny days and long sunshine hours, and the sunshine hours in the whole year are mostly 2000 ~ 2600 hours. Typical dry-hot valley climate is formed in the valley area affected by foehn, and obvious three-dimensional climate is formed in the mountain area. The alpine climate zone in the alpine plateau of northwest Sichuan. The altitude difference in this area is great, and the three-dimensional climate change is obvious. Subtropical zone, warm temperate zone, middle temperate zone, cold temperate zone, sub-cold zone and permafrost zone appear in turn from the valley to the ridge. Generally speaking, the climate is dominated by cold temperate zone, with dry and warm valleys, wet and cold mountains, cool Leng Xia in winter and insufficient water and heat. The annual average temperature is 4 ~ 12℃, the annual precipitation is 500 ~ 900 mm, the weather is clear and the annual sunshine 1600 ~ 2600 hours.