Suifenhe

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 in January to 19.3 °C in July, and the annual mean is +3.17 °C. 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.

|Jan record high C = 5.1 |Jan record low C = -33.4 |Feb record high C = 10.0 |Feb record low C = -31.0 |Mar record high C = 17.0 |Mar record low C = -24.1 |Apr record high C = 28.2 |Apr record low C = -13.0 |May record high C = 31.7 |May record low C = -4.3 |Jun record high C = 33.9 |Jun record low C = 0.4 |Jul record high C = 35.3 |Jul record low C = 6.9 |Aug record high C = 34.4 |Aug record low C = 3.6 |Sep record high C = 29.6 |Sep record low C = -6.7 |Oct record high C = 27.1 |Oct record low C = -15.4 |Nov record high C = 17.5 |Nov record low C = -27.6 |Dec record high C = 8.2 |Dec record low C = -32.3

Administrative divisions

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• 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 Sino-Russian border. The rail line was originally constructed as the Chinese Eastern Railway in the early 20th century, but now serves as the terminus of the Harbin-Suifenhe Railway. The train station on the opposite side of the border is Grodekovo, in the town of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai.

As of October 2025, train 401/402 makes the 26-km trip between Suifenhe and Grodekovo daily; however, no other scheduled passenger trains operate through the border at Suifenhe.

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.

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.

Airport

Suifenhe Dongning Airport opened on 28 December 2024.

References

References

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