China Tour October weather

Hi

My wife and I and going on a 9 day tour with Hayes and Jarvis in October 2008, we are going to Beijing, Xian and Shanghai, what is the weather likely to be in temperature and rainfall so that we have an idea what to pack.

Thanks

SKCI

China Tour October weather

Look on the following URLs for historical weather data.

Weather Underground (Beijing): wunderground.com/global/stations/54511.html

Weather Underground (Xi%26#39;an): wunderground.com/global/stations/57036.html

Weather Underground (Shanghai): wunderground.com/global/stations/58367.html

MSN Weather (Beijing): weather.msn.com/local.aspx鈥?/a>

MSN Weather (Xi%26#39;an): weather.msn.com/local.aspx鈥?/a>

MSN Weather (Shanghai): weather.msn.com/local.aspx鈥?/a>

China Tour October weather

Hi there.

We have just booked this tour for Sept 09 as part of our honeymoon and I was wondering if you have any feedback / tips etc?

We have been looking on-line for a while now however there does not seem to be much info available on this particular tour? We have not upgraded the hotels and having looked at the review on the hotels only, we are now a little concerned?

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Tks, Wayne

For Shanghai October is perfect! The summer heat of up to 40 C is gone and the winter still way ahead. Temperatures are in the low/mid 20%26#39;s and you could surely still sit outside for your dinner. You might want to take a light jacket with you however. For Beijing and Xian it could be quite chilly and surely already well below 10 C in the night.

April/May and September/October (excluding first week May and first week October when they have national holidays) are surely the best times to visit China.

We visited Shanghai early October and it was warm (I wore shorts %26amp; T-shirt in the daytime!), cool enough for a lightweight jacket in the evenings.

Xian in mid-October was cooler, we had wet weather but not too cold.

Beijing (3rd week October) was lovely and sunny (maybe atypical?), lightweight fleeces OK.

I think with these multi centre tours the key is to do layers so you can adjust to the changes in temperature.

Hi skci In Nov 2008 my husband and i went on a hayes and jarvis trip to Beijing, Xian and Guilin then we went to Honk Kong and did our own thing. Overall the trip was great - a few minor glitches but we are easy going and made the best of everything.Not everyone in the group was as happy as us.

Firstly, i know it seems obvious but you are in china and the food is chinese - not quite the same as chinese food here but all perfectly edible. Some of the group were upset that we were eating chinese food every day i dont know what they were expecting.

The weather was great - bright and cold in beijing but dry. Xian was fantastic - weather a bit warmer lots to see. Only fly in the ointment was that our guide said he could squeeze in an extra trip for us which was great but when i spoke to other tourists at the site our guide had charged us triple the entry price which all went into his pocket. It left a bit of a bad taste and we all felt we had been duped as gullible tourists. When i reported this to hayes and jarvis they were not interested - so we will think again about using them if they condone this behaviour from their guides.

Guillin great - weather warm and sunny in the day but very cold at night. Hotel dreadful - supposed to be 4 star but more like 2 star not what i would expect hayes and jarvis to use and not in context with the rest of the holiday. Also its position was outside the town and our guide advised us that it was unsafe to leave the hotel and if we did so not to take any valuables with us - we were not happy with this at all not only were we stuck inside - it was a ghastly hotel!

Apart from these gripes we really enjoyed the holiday and have some fantastic memories of the great wall, the forbidden palace, the summer palace,the terracotta army, and most of all the fantastic friendly chinese people.