Hebei · China
Where to stay in Chengde
Chengde is a city in Hebei, China, home to about 3,354,000 people.
- Best months
- April, May and September
- Nearest airport
- CDE20 km · Chengde Puning Airport
- Currency
- CNYrenminbi
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Language
- Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese
About
About Chengde
Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about 225 kilometres (140 mi) northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by the Qing emperors as summer residence.
The resort, along with the Outer Temples, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The city is about 260 km northeast of Beijing and has a population of around 460,000, with about 3½ million people in the prefecture (2016).
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Things to do
What to see and do in Chengde
See
- The Summer Mountain Resort
- Putuo Zongcheng Temple
- Shuangta Shan
- Puning Temple
- Hammer (Club) Rock
- Chengde Museum
Do
- LTL Mandarin School Chengde
- Ice Skating
- 磬锤峰星空观测
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Where to stay
Hotels in Chengde
5 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Atour Hotel (Chengde Summer Resort) | 1.6 km | |
| Chengde Imperial Palace Hotel | 10.0 km | |
| Shenghua Hotel | 1.4 km | |
| Yunshan Hotel | 1.4 km | |
| Ziyu International Holiday Hotel | 1.8 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Chengde
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Chengde are April, May and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 29 °C; July is the wettest, with about 155 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Chengde: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Chengde Puning Airport (CDE), about 20 km from the city centre in a straight line.
Getting in
There is a small airport in southern Chengde where occasional charter flights shuttle between Beijing and Chengde. Chengde is 180 km away from the Beijing Capital International Airport. To travel by air, visitors can take a coach to Beijing and connect with their flights from there. A coach departs for Beijing every twenty minutes, making it very convenient. There are a dozen daily G-trains (High Speed) between Beijing (Chaoyang station, 北京朝阳) and Chengde (South Station, 承德南) that have shortened the trip to an hour from the 5 hours of a K train, which are still available (April 5, 2021).
Getting around
Buses charge a rate of ¥2 on most routes and ¥3 on longer routes (including the buses to and from South Station) (as of April 2025), but there is no attendant, so have correct change. The buses have no English and little pinyin signage. Buses accept T-Union cards and Alipay. Bus 118 goes from Chengde to the temples in the North and bus 119 to the temples in the East. Amap and other apps are able to show bus routes. Most taxis are metered. Short trips cost about ¥6 (plus ¥1 gas surcharge).
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CDE · Chengde Puning Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Chengde
Eat
Donkey-Rolling Roll is a long roll with stuffing wrapped in yellow rice. The Roll is served on a bed of yellow beans. The act of turning the roll on the yellow beans is just like a donkey rolling on the ground. That is how the snack got its name. It could be found in Chengde more than 200 years ago. Generally, less than ¥100 for a large plate (in Chengde restaurants, there are always large and small plates; the large plate is about ten inches wide and the small one seven inches wide). You noodle is a kind of coarse food grain. It is slightly dark colored. The local You noodle wozi dough is first rolled out to a thin skin, and then formed to its final shape.
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Questions
Chengde: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Chengde?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Chengde are April, May and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 29 °C; July is the wettest, with about 155 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Chengde?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Chengde Puning Airport (CDE), about 20 km from the city centre in a straight line.
What currency is used in Chengde?
renminbi (CNY).
Nearby
Destinations near Chengde
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.