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Climate and Weather
Harbin is located in the temperate zone, it has continental climate and with long winters and short summers. It has annually average temperature 4C, annually average rainfall precipitation of 600mm, concentrated on June, July and August.
Local Festivals and Folk Custom
Harbin Ice Festival
Harbin Ice Festival is held in Harbin annually. Usually falling on January 5 and lasting a month, the festival exerts a strong draw on both local residents and visitors. During the period of the festival,the city boasts its neat, impressive and artistic ice and snow sculptures, carvings, and buildings in parks and on frozen rivers. World famous monuments like some grand cathedrals, pyramids, Potala Palace and the Great Wall are all carved out of ice, in spectacularly giant sizes! Some of them, embedded with colored lights, are designed for nighttime observation. Skiing and Ice sliding are popular activities in the occasion.
Other Odds and Ends
Phone Dialing Code: 0451
Post code: 150000
Fire: 119
Police: 110
Ambulance: 120
Weather Forecast: 121
Consumers' Complaint: 12315
Money:
Bank of China: 19 Hongjun Jie.
Tel: 86-451-5363 3518
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