What month is winter?

Generally speaking, in the meteorological sense, winter is June, July and August in the southern hemisphere, 12, 1 and February in the northern hemisphere, and China is in the northern hemisphere, so winter is 12 to February of the following year.

However, the division of winter can also be astronomy, solar terms, constellations and so on. , the specific division is as follows:

Astronomically speaking, it was from February to March in 65438. China used to refer to the three months from beginning of winter to beginning of spring, and also referred to the "October, November (winter) and December (wax) months" of the lunar calendar. From the constellation, the winter in the southern hemisphere is from May 2 1 to August 22, and the winter in the northern hemisphere is from May 2 1 1 to February 18.

According to the meaning of solar terms, winter begins at the beginning of winter and ends in beginning of spring. Westerners generally call winter the solstice and spring the winter. From the climatological point of view, it is winter when the average temperature is lower than 10℃ for five consecutive days.

Winter in China.

From a perennial perspective, the average winter time in nearly half of the provincial capital cities in China is 1 1. The northernmost Mohe and the area north of Daxinganling took the lead in entering the long winter in early September; However, parts of northwest and northeast China enter winter in the first half of June in 5438+ 10.

Beijing also entered a dry winter at the end of 10; In June, 5438+065438+ 10, the Yangtze river basin gradually entered winter; In early February of 65438+, winter approached Wuyi Mountain Range and the northern slope of Nanling Mountain in the north of Guangdong and Guangxi.

Generally speaking, winter is the longest season in most parts of northern China. Among the provincial-level cities, Harbin, Xining, Lhasa, Changchun, Hohhot, Urumqi and Shenyang accounted for more than half of the year, among which Xining and Harbin tied for the first place, with an average winter time of 207 days, accounting for 56.7% of the year.