Which city in China does not snow in winter?
The city in China that does not snow in winter is Sansha City in Hainan Province.
Judging from well-documented historical records, there are not many cities in my country that never snow in winter. Only Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Taiwan have cities that never snow. Moreover, the above places must be verified one by one based on history. The only city that can answer without hesitation that it never snows is Sansha City, Hainan.
Sansha City is the county-level city with the southernmost geographical location, the largest total area, the smallest land area, and the smallest population in China. The city government is located on Yongxing Island in the Xisha Islands. According to records, over the past 30 years, the extreme minimum temperature on Yongxing Island has been 15.5°C.
According to reliable records, there have been eight snowfalls in Hainan Province since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in Wanning, Lingao, Wenchang and Qiongshan County in Haikou City. Among them, it snowed for three days and three nights in Lingao during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty. Sanya and other places south of Wanning may be one of the few places in Hainan that never snow.
The last record of snowfall in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan was in the years around 1893. Snowfall occurred in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Qiongshan in Hainan. Some people say that it never snows in Xishuangbanna, the southernmost part of Yunnan, but during the freeze disaster in January 2016, the lowest temperature in the urban area was 4°C to 6°C, and in high-altitude areas it was -2°C to 0°C, and freezing occurred in some places. As for Taiwan, in the past century, Taichung has experienced temperatures of around -1°C many times.
Extended information
Climate characteristics of Sansha City, Hainan Province:
Sansha City has a tropical maritime monsoon climate. The weather is summer all year round, and the heat and temperature are the highest in the country. However, due to the regulation of the ocean, there are rarely severe heat waves. The northeast monsoon prevails from October to March of the following year, and the southwest monsoon prevails from May to September.