"On such a hot day, I can't live without the air conditioner."
In today's hot weather of more than 30 degrees, the most broken thing in people's mouths should be "dead of heat".
There are also many people who lament that on such a hot day, only by getting into the air-conditioned room can they "come alive".
But on the mainland, there are a few cities where you don't need to turn on the air conditioner at all in the summer, and you even have to cover yourself with a quilt when you sleep at night.
Xining with "no summer".
Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, is also known as "the place where there is no summer".
Xining is located in the northeast of Qinghai Province, also in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and is located at the confluence of Huangshui and three tributaries.
Since ancient times, Xining has been a major transportation route and military center in the northwest region, and the south road of the ancient Silk Road and the Tangbo Ancient Road need to pass through Xining.
In Qinghai Province, in fact, the most well-known is not Xining, but it is undeniable that it is one of the top ten most beautiful cities in China, and it is also a "summer resort" in the mainland.
In Xining, in addition to seeing some natural scenery, you can also feel the cool and pleasant climate.
Due to the high altitude of Xining, the summer temperature here is much lower than in other places.
Here, we don't feel the unbearable heat of "summer" at all, but have a feeling that we have entered autumn.
During the day, the temperature in Xining is about 20 degrees, and even if you walk outdoors, you will not sweat profusely and be slimy.
And once it is night, the temperature here is only about 10 degrees, and people need to cover themselves with quilts when they sleep, and as for air conditioning, there is no need for air conditioning here.
Not only that, but in the summer in Xining, even mosquitoes are very few, which also solves a very bad problem for people.
This is also the most direct reason why Xining is known as the "summer capital of China".
"Everywhere is a cool place" of Tianshui
If Xining is the summer capital of China, then Tianshui is Longshang Jiangnan.
Because it's so "livable".
Tianshui City, located in Gansu Province, is the east gate of Gansu, and the geographical location of Tianshui is very important for Gansu.
In ancient times, the location of Tianshui was also a very famous hub on the Silk Road.
Speaking of Gansu, it gives people the feeling of "ancient", there are lifelike murals of "Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes", and there is also a natural palette of "Zhangye Colorful Danxia".
But these places give people the impression of "desolation", and the loess is all over the sky.
Tianshui, on the other hand, is a different scene.
Although the name "Tianshui" has the word "water" in it, it is one of the most water-scarce cities in Gansu.
However, compared to the greenery of other cities, the amount of vegetation here is a little more abundant, and the variety is also a little more.
Compared with the surrounding cities, Tianshui is the "greenest" city, and more importantly, the climate here is what people yearn for the most.
Compared with the temperature of "no love" in the summer now, Tianshui is simply a place where the air conditioner is turned on.
Because it is close to 30 degrees north latitude and subtropics, Tianshui has no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter.
The average annual temperature here is around 11°C, with the hottest summer being 22.8°C and the coldest winter being minus 2°C.
Such a temperature, for people under the scorching sun, is simply the dream of summer, it is estimated that when it comes to Tianshui, you have to cover yourself with a quilt when you sleep at night.
"The city with air conditioning": Datong
While people in other parts of the continent are melting hot, there is one place where people are using air conditioners as decorations.
When we wear short-sleeved shirts in other cities, turn on the air conditioner, and even keep the ice water in our hands, the people in Datong don't think it's cold to wear short-sleeved.
As one of the nine ancient capitals, Datong is the only ancient summer capital in the mainland and one of the coolest places in the mainland, and it has also been selected as the best place for summer tourism in 2023.
With the advantage of the highest temperature of 26 degrees Celsius in summer, Datong has become the first choice for many people to escape the heat.
People who have been to Datong in summer should have a very intuitive feeling, here, there is no need to turn on the air conditioner at all, and even the clothes have to bring a few coats, otherwise, you may feel a little cold when you go out at night.
And Datong can have such cool weather, in fact, because of its special geographical location.
Judging from the map, Datong is just located at 40 degrees north latitude, and it is surrounded by mountains and often has a fresh breeze, which makes it an enviable "air-conditioned weather" here.
Liangdu, China: Liupanshui
In August 2005, Liupanshui was awarded the title of "China's Cool Capital? Liupanshui".
This also makes Liupanshui the first city in the mainland to be named after the advantages of climate resources.
Liupanshui, located in the western part of Guizhou Province, has a unique geographical location, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing water on one side, and its own terrain is also very high.
"Three ponds, three lakes and six panshui, thousands of rocks and thousands of ravines and a cool capital", this sentence is specially used to describe Liupanshui, which is enough to see the innate advantages here.
Not only that, it is located in the southeast of Eurasia, but also closely connected to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and is not particularly far from the Indian Ocean, where the water vapor is the "humidifier".
With such an advantage, Liupanshui also has a climate of "cool in summer and warm in winter", and it has become a summer resort.
In the summer when the country is full of furnaces, Liupanshui was able to fight its way out of the encirclement and let itself stay in the spring, where the highest temperature ever recorded was only 31 °C.
For our summer, when thirty-seven or eight degrees is already the norm, thirty-one degrees is already an unattainable dream.
And the people of Liupanshui will not be afraid of heat stroke at all in summer, but should be afraid of "catching a cold".
During the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone has already worn short sleeves to travel, but when they arrive at Liupanshui, they need to wrap themselves in cotton clothes or down jackets.
Here, there seems to be no summer at all, only the climate that is like spring all year round.
"Summer City" Yichun
When it comes to the Northeast, the first thing that comes to many people's minds is ice and snow.
In such a place, it is actually a very good choice to escape the heat.
Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, is a natural air-conditioned room.
Yichun is a city nestled in a forest, and the green coverage rate here is as high as 82.2%, so it is also called "forest capital".
In many summer resorts, it is rare to see Yichun, but that doesn't mean it's not a good place to escape the heat.
In the summer of Yichun, the average temperature is only between 15°C and 22°C.
For summer, this temperature is already very cool.
Not only that, but due to the high forest cover, the air here is also very humid, which is very suitable for the human body for a comfortable temperature in summer.
Information sources:
Tianshui Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism "China's Top Ten Charming Cities - Tianshui Welcomes You to Check In, Summer Coolness, Summer Fun (1)"2023-07-19
Yellow River News Network "Summer Blessed Land Cool Shanxi|The whole city "turns on air conditioning"? Come to the city of Shanxi for a cool summer! 》2023-07-13
Tianyan News "Encounter China's Cool Capital and Enjoy the Cool Summer|Guizhou Daily Focuses on the Summer Season of Liupanshui and Launches a Full-page Special Report"2023-08-08
China Tourism News, "Encounter the Forest City, Enjoy the Cool Summer"2023-07-20
Xihai Metropolis Daily "2023 Summer Tourism Trend List Released, Xining on the List of Summer Destinations"2023-06-14