Suifenhe
Suifenhe
绥芬河市 | ||
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Postal code 157300 | ||
| Area code | 0453 | |
| Climate | Dwb | |
| Website | suifenhe | |
| Suifenhe | |
|---|---|
Hanyu Pinyin | Suífēnhé |
| Wade–Giles | Sui2-fen1-ho2 |
Suifenhe (
Suifenhe and the surrounding border areas were scenes of vicious combat when the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in August 1945.
Geography and climate
Suifenhe has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), with long, very cold, but dry winters, and warm, humid summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperatures range from −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) in January to 19.3 °C (66.7 °F) in July, and the annual mean is +3.17 °C (37.7 °F). Precipitation is light in the winter, and more than 2/3 of the year's precipitation occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 44% in July to 64% in January and February, the city receives 2,413 hours of bright sunshine annually, with the latter half of winter being especially sunny.
| Climate data for Suifenhe (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 5.1 (41.2) |
10.0 (50.0) |
17.0 (62.6) |
28.2 (82.8) |
31.7 (89.1) |
33.9 (93.0) |
35.3 (95.5) |
34.4 (93.9) |
29.6 (85.3) |
27.1 (80.8) |
17.5 (63.5) |
8.2 (46.8) |
35.3 (95.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −10.5 (13.1) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
1.3 (34.3) |
11.2 (52.2) |
18.0 (64.4) |
22.1 (71.8) |
24.7 (76.5) |
24.2 (75.6) |
19.5 (67.1) |
11.6 (52.9) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−8.7 (16.3) |
9.0 (48.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −15.7 (3.7) |
−11.6 (11.1) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
5.2 (41.4) |
11.7 (53.1) |
16.4 (61.5) |
19.7 (67.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
13.3 (55.9) |
5.5 (41.9) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−13.5 (7.7) |
3.4 (38.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.8 (−3.6) |
−16.3 (2.7) |
−9.1 (15.6) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
5.7 (42.3) |
11.1 (52.0) |
15.4 (59.7) |
14.9 (58.8) |
7.8 (46.0) |
0.2 (32.4) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
−17.4 (0.7) |
−1.4 (29.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −33.4 (−28.1) |
−31.0 (−23.8) |
−24.1 (−11.4) |
−13.0 (8.6) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
0.4 (32.7) |
6.9 (44.4) |
3.6 (38.5) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
−15.4 (4.3) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
−32.3 (−26.1) |
−33.4 (−28.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8.4 (0.33) |
7.0 (0.28) |
17.1 (0.67) |
31.4 (1.24) |
76.7 (3.02) |
93.6 (3.69) |
124.7 (4.91) |
128.6 (5.06) |
68.7 (2.70) |
39.8 (1.57) |
22.9 (0.90) |
10.5 (0.41) |
629.4 (24.78) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.0 | 5.3 | 8.4 | 9.4 | 14.3 | 15.0 | 15.5 | 15.0 | 10.8 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 122.8 |
| Average snowy days | 9.0 | 8.7 | 12.1 | 7.3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 3.3 | 9.7 | 10.8 | 61.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%)
|
65 | 59 | 57 | 54 | 64 | 78 | 84 | 84 | 75 | 61 | 63 | 66 | 68 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 175.4 | 188.3 | 216.7 | 200.3 | 215.8 | 209.9 | 192.8 | 193.4 | 217.4 | 203.9 | 161.2 | 155.1 | 2,330.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 64 | 58 | 49 | 47 | 45 | 41 | 45 | 59 | 61 | 57 | 57 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4][5] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Suifenhe administers two
- Suifenhe Town (绥芬河镇)
- Funing Town (阜宁镇)
Transport
Road
Suifenhe is also a terminus of both G10 Suifenhe–Manzhouli Expressway and China National Highway 301, which run northwest to Manzhouli (Inner Mongolia), which is another China–Russia port-of-entry.
Road and rail border crossing
Suifenhe is one of the points where China's and Russia's railway systems connect through a rail border crossing on the
As of December 2009, Russian train schedule sites show the existence of the passenger train no. 401, making the 26-km trip between Suifenhe and Grodekovo twice a week; however, the twice-a-week trains no. 006, Khabarovsk–Harbin, and no. 967, Vladivostok–Harbin only have a scheduled stop in Grodekovo and not in Suifenhe.[8]
The cross-border rail line is important for freight transportation. As of 2015, the main cargo entering China from Russia over this railway crossing is iron ore; at 1.3 million tons over the first 5 months of the year, it constitutes about 1/3 of the total import cargo volume.[9]
The G10 Suifenhe–Manzhouli Expressway and China National Highway 301, which terminates at Suifenhe is connected via a road border crossing to Russia's A184 Highway. The nearest city to the crossing on the Russian side is Pogranichny.
References
- ^ 中国金融信息网. "绥芬河卢布现钞使用试点进入正式实施阶段". 中国金融信息网. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ "绥芬河试点使用卢布现钞-新华网". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1971－2000年）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21.
- ^ 2011年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：绥芬河市 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ^ "国家统计局" (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ Russian train schedules site. One can search e.g. by entering "Grodekovo" as a station name, obtaining results like this: http://www.poezda.net/en/station_timetable?st_code=2034464&forDate=08-12-2009 The through trains from Khabarovsk and Vladivostok may in reality be just single cars, or groups of cars, attached to a train terminating in Grodekovo, and then passed on to the Chinese railways.
- ^ 绥芬河铁路口岸2015年1至5月进口铁矿创历史同期新高] [Record amount of iron ore imported through the Suifenhe railway point of entry over the first 5 months of 2015]. houchepiao.com news.