15 Winter Activities in China to Build a Day Around

1.2-Day Harbin City Private Tour in Your Way in Winter Season

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 26 reviews · from $280Our pick

A 2-day private Harbin winter tour with hotel pickup, English guide, and ice-show highlights, plus flexible transport and customizable timing.

“Our family went to the trip in 2019 (I couldn’t choose the year since I wrote it after a long time) and the tour guide was very welcoming and brought us to many different places and gave us a great introduction to Harbin. The tour guide’s English is good and we had a great time enjoying the places and the local food she introduced to us. Wonderful.”

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2.Harbin Winter Warm Clothing Rental

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 15 reviews · from $98

Rent warm coats, trousers, and anti-slip snow boots in Harbin, delivered to your hotel. Stay comfy for the Ice Festival.

“Agent arrived on time with our clothes and provided a faultless service. Highly recommend to anybody”

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3.3-Day Harbin City Private Tour in Your Way in Winter Season

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 14 reviews · from $520

3 days in winter Harbin with a private English guide, flexible pacing, hotel pickup, and ice shows like Sun Island and Ice and Snow World.

“I fully recommend this 3 full days tour. Service is above and beyond. Sara is our tour guide. She is very patient, knowledgeable, and experienced. She took a lot of photos for us. Her English is also very good. Local lunches are very tasty 😋”

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4.2-Day Group City Tour Package with Harbin Ice and Snow Festival

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 13 reviews · from $600

Two days in Harbin with Sun Island, Ice and Snow World, ropeway, ice swimming show, Sophia Cathedral, Stalin Park, and Lao DaoWai.

“We wanted to make sure we saw the most important sites to visit in Harbin during our short stay so we booked onto a group trip. We were very lucky as we turned out to be the only people on the tour, so we had Joanna, our guide and Mr Read more”

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5.Full Day Private Tour to Harbin Ice and Snow Festival

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $350

A private full-day Harbin winter tour, from Sun Island Snow Fair in the morning to the glowing Harbin Ice and Snow World after lunch.

“Kelly was my tour guide and she was very prompt to pick me up. We visited the snow sculptures in the morning, which took maybe 1-2 hours and then we went for a quick lunch. We then had a break for a few hours before visiting the ice fesRead more”

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6.Private Full Day Transfer Service to Harbin Top Winter Attractions

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $198

Private full day transfer in Harbin to Sun Island Snow Festival and Harbin Ice and Snow World, with pickup and ticket help for up to 4.

“Excellent experience, easy to set up and very fun. The driver was friendly and professional. It was nice to have the prepurchased tickets and we quickly entered both venues without hassle. Going to the ice park at dusk was fun as we cRead more”

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7.Harbin City Private Day Tour in Your Way in Winter Season

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 7 reviews · from $200

A winter-focused Harbin private day with classic Russian architecture, ice parks, and big ticket lighted sights, plus warm pickup door to door.

“We, our family of 3, would like to sincerely thank Samantha Song (coordinator for our trip in Harbin) and had provided us a good English speaking private tour guide, Ms Joanna Zhou, who worked endlessly to cater for us in the wintery cold anRead more”

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8.Harbin Ice and Snow Fairyland Private Day Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 5 reviews · 2 days · from $299

Private Harbin winter day tour with Sun Island sculptures, old-town foodie tastings, and Ice and Snow World by day and night for $299.

“Excellent. Brooklyn was our guide - patient, kind, careful driver, good in English. Highly recommended tour in Harbin. My family enjoyed very much”

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9.Lijiang: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain for Foreign Tourists

★★★★★★★★★★3.7 · 5 reviews · 10 hours · from $51Best value

Visit Jade Dragon Snow Mountain from Lijiang for Golden Sunrise, cableway rides, Blue Moon Valley, and the Impression Lijiang show, with hotel pickup.

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10.Lijiang: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain + Impression Lijiang

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · 10 hours · from $106

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Black Dragon Pool, Baisha and Impression Lijiang in one 10-hour day with private pickup and cableway options.

“everything in the trip was amazing. every spot we visited was worth waking up so early for. the mountain hike was so fun and hard the guide Jimmy was excellent and fun and showed us all the right spots and told us a lot of stories and shared best times to visit again as well as being a light presence. he made us take our time.”

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11.One day Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Tour with Impression Lijiang show

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $252

Private full-day tour from Lijiang to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Impression Lijiang show, and Baisha Old Town murals with hotel pickup.

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12.2-Day Harbin City Private Tour with Ice and Snow Festival with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $480

2-day private Harbin Ice and Snow Festival tour with hotel pickup, lunch, and top sights like Ice and Snow World and Snow Fair.

“A huge thank you to Joanna and Joey for a fantastic two days! Having the car on standby made getting around the city a breeze. Joanna's knowledge of all the sites was impressive, and she never rushed us, allowing us to take our time. Some Read more”

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13.3-Day Harbin City Private Tour with Ice and Snow Festival

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $1,580

A 3-day Harbin private winter tour with ice parks, lanterns, river views, and classic city sights, plus guide, transport, and meals option.

“We had an awesome experience at Harbin where Ice and Snow Festival was going on at that time. The snow and ice sculptures made by people from all over the world were incredible. The trip to the city turned out to be an amazing trip for which I would like to thank Ms Sera Read more”

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14.4-Day Harbin City Private Tour with Ice and Snow Festival with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 4 reviews · from $814

Private 4-day Harbin winter tour with Ice and Snow World, Russian sights, skiing options, ice shows, and lunch each day.

“If you are looking for a trustworthy, reliable, responsive, accommodating, caring and helpful Harbin Private Guide, Samantha should be your choice. We have travelled many places with private guides...Samantha is the best guide we have had. She treats you not as a private Read more”

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15.Lijiang: Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and Blue Moon Valley Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · 1 day · from $229

Cable car to 4,680m Glacier Park and a vivid Blue Moon Valley on a private Lijiang day trip with an English guide.

“Our guide Louise is fantastic. She brought around smoothly and gave her advise on various photo area. she even advise us where to sit during the impression of lijiang where we can use an umbrella freely to avoid the hot sun. She also gave us advise on how to proceed to Kunming when we told her there are almost no more tickets from Lijiang. She advised us to go to Dali (as there are more tickets avail to kunming from there) to transfer to kunming instead which is a really great idea. overall me and my wife had a wonderful time :)”

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