Climate types in Beijing

Beijing has a typical temperate monsoon climate, with dry and windy spring, high temperature and rainy summer, sunny and pleasant autumn and cold and dry winter. The annual average temperature in Beijing is 10 ~ 12℃, and the seasonal distribution of precipitation is uneven. Most of the precipitation in the whole year is concentrated in summer, and there are often heavy rains in July and August.

The temperate monsoon climate appears on the east coast of Eurasia near 35 ~ 55 north latitude, including North China and Northeast China, most of Korea, northern Japan and parts of the Russian Far East.

In winter, affected by the northerly winds in high latitudes inland, polar continental air masses prevail, which are cold and dry; In summer, influenced by polar ocean air mass or denatured tropical ocean air mass, southeast wind and southeast wind prevail, with warm, hot and rainy seasons.

The annual precipitation is about 1000mm, about two thirds of which is concentrated in summer (hot and rainy in summer and cold and dry in winter). There are four distinct seasons throughout the year and the weather is changeable. With the increase of latitude, the temperature amplitude in winter and summer increases correspondingly, while the precipitation decreases gradually.

Geographical features of Beijing;

The center of Beijing is located at 39 degrees north latitude and 1 16 degrees east longitude. Located at the northern end of North China Plain. Beijing is surrounded by mountains in the west, north and northeast, and the Great Plains slowly inclines to the Bohai Sea in the southeast.

Beijing Plain is 20-60m above sea level, and mountainous areas are generally1000-1500m. Dongling Mountain, which borders Hebei, is 2303 meters above sea level and is the highest peak in Beijing.

Beijing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The west, north and northeast are surrounded by mountains, and the southeast is a plain that slowly inclines to the Bohai Sea. The main rivers flowing through the territory are: Yongding River, Chaobai River, North Canal and Juma River. Most of them originate in the mountainous areas in the northwest, cross the mountains, meander through the plains and flow to the southeast, and finally merge into the Bohai Sea respectively.