Mount Siguniang Weather and Travel Season

Mount Siguniang locates between sub-tropical zone and continental highland zone. Due to its high elevation, summer is cool and winter is cold. It is generally considered dry at Mount Siguniang. Raining season come from April to September with the most rain in July and August normally. In spring there are usually snows and strong wind. In winter the weather calms down to low temperature and less windy days. Also, due to its high elevation, temperature in a day changes a lot sometimes over 20C. Mount Siguniang has a less distinct four-season change with an average temperature throughout the year at 12.2C. Generally October to the next April, the weather is good, often with sunny days but cold. From June to September come the raining season and the raining days usually take almost half of the time according to former statistics. As any other place at such elevation, in a day it is cool in the morning, hot at noon and usually blue sky, at evening it is cool and windy.

Best seasons to travel to Mt. Siguniang are August, September, October and November. August is the summer and has lower possibility of rains than July. Summer is not cold as autumn. October and November are dry and have better chance of good weather. November is colder though October will see more travelers. Second half of April, May, June July, September, December, January are also good travel time to Mount Siguniang. April may be cold as well. May, June and July will have higher possibility of raining days; among which July is the warmest though. September is like June and a possible of consecutive cloudy or drizzling days. December and January are also good time to travel to Mount Siguniang but it is cold. Higher places of snow-covered seasons are March to May generally.

March to April are the snow-accumulating time and also the snow-melting of the year. Normally it will have lots of snow accumulated on the mountains, making the walking difficult or even impossible to access. October and November are the snow accumulating time of the year but it's normally dry season. But all of these are not definite as in the mountains one is difficult to tell how the weather is going to be like. These are the sums made from former experiences we traveled there.

Travel Season in terms of weather and views.

Best: generally with the stable weather conditions and best scenery/views of the year for example in August it is all green and in Oct the mountains will turn golden. These seasons are often with sunny and clear days/good conditions for walking and photography, but may also be crowded.

Good: These seasons are with good views, normally with unstable or cold weather and climate, but rarely result into change of plan due to change of weather. These seasons are often less crowded and also very beautiful.

Okay: These seasons are also with good views but can be cold and have unstable weather may result into change of plan due to weather changes.

In terms of crowd, if you want to avoid the big crowds in Mt. Siguniang, which is getting busier and busier after the new road was completed, try to avoid the holidays in China including golden week at the first week of Oct and the Chinese New Year Holiday. Also July and August may also see many travelers around Siguniang as it is the school summer vacation in China. Weekends are also suggested being avoided if possible as Mt. Siguniang is only 4 hours’ drive away from the big city Chengdu. "

Read Detailed weather information of Mt. Siguniang in different seasons

• Spring
• Summer
• Autumn
• Winter