Located at the North Temperate Zone, Beijing enjoys a typical moderate continental climate. It is a typical city, where the four seasons are distinct:
Spring in Beijing is warm with flowers but dry, dusty and windy, sometimes even with sandstorms; summer is hot, sometimes humidly hot and rainy; autumn is cool, pleasant and comfortable with bright sunny sky and it is the best season of the whole year; winter is clear but cold with some snow and sometimes it is severely cold with strong north wind.