How cold is the coldest time in Lanzhou? What's the lowest temperature? In which winter months does it start to snow? Anyone who knows please answer? Thanks

The coldest temperature is minus 20 degrees Celsius, and it occasionally snows in the winter months, but because the weather is relatively dry, snow is not common.

Like most northern cities, Lanzhou has long winter and summer, but short spring and autumn.

The lowest temperature in winter is generally around minus 14°C. The coldest year (2009) reached minus 22°C, but it only lasted one day. Heating starts in mid-November and ends at the end of March.

Lanzhou’s climate is a temperate continental climate. The annual average temperature is 10.3°C, with neither scorching heat in summer nor severe cold in winter. It is a famous summer resort. There is a lot of sunshine, with an average annual sunshine hours of 2446 hours, a frost-free period of 180 days, and an average annual precipitation of 327 mm, mainly concentrated from June to September.