Harbin Tours 2025

For a weekend break of only 2–3 days, you can discover Harbin city's essence, including the spectacular sculpture shows at Ice and Snow World and on Sun Island, the biggest home of endangered Siberian tigers, culture-filled Central Avenue, soak in an outdoor hot spring in a snowy world, and join in a wide choice of other winter activities.

If you want to enrich your trip further, we recommend the nearby Yabuli Ski Resort and China Snow Town, which will need another 2–4 days.

On a week's vacation, in addition to above destinations, you could extend your trip to other destinations in Northeast China, such as Jinpo Lake to visit the stunning ice waterfall and witness local ice fishing, or Changbai Mountain to capture the dreamlike Heavenly Lake volcano views and have a raft ride on Mt. Changbai's hot spring river, or Jilin for its Rime Island wonder.

The annual Harbin World Ice and Snow Festival is held from late December (probably the 25th) till late February or early March. You can enjoy this international event and feel the awesome festive atmosphere throughout this period.

If you want to enjoy the opening ceremony on January 5th and the splendid firework show, you need to visit on that date.

2. Festival Venues

The Ice and Snow World venue, the Sun Island Snow Sculpture Art Expo, and the Zhaolin Park Ice Lantern Festival venue are the three main venues for Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival.

3. What I can do in December before the festival?

Before the opening of the Ice and Snow Festival venues, huge snow and ice sculptures are being created in the middle of December. As the venues are closed before late December, travelers are unable to see the sculpting process up close. However, there are still many other places to see...

At Central Street, you can see how people make (smaller) snow sculptures if lucky enough. Take the warm shuttle bus to Siberian Tigers Park, and you can see Siberian tigers in the outdoors. Have a skiing day or holiday, soak in a hot spring… Although the Ice and Snow Festival doesn't start yet, you can still have fun in Harbin!

Batteries are affected easily by low temperatures. When outside, please put your cell phone and camera in a warm bag or inside your coat. If you plan to take a lot of pictures, do bring a spare battery as batteries run out quickly in low temperatures.