Zhangjiajie Autumn: Weather & Best Things to Do in September, October & November

Autumn is one of the best times to visit Zhangjiajie, alongside Spring. During this season, temperature in Zhangjiajie gradually decreases from 29℃ (84.2℉) to 10℃ (50℉), creating a warm and comfortable atmosphere. The weather is significantly cooler than the preceeding summer months and there are 11~12 rainy days in every month.

With such favorable weather in Autumn, Zhangjiajie attracts travellers eager to experience its breathtaking scenery during this vibrant season. Visitors will discover a colorful transformation as the leaves shift from green to yellow and eventually turn red due to moisture. This stunning display reveals a spectrum of colors ranging between green and red throughout the forests. After rainfall, the mountains resemble a fairyland enveloped in clouds and mist. On sunny days, the clear blue sky combined with warm sunlight provides an ideal backdrop for photography.

Come to visit Zhangjiajie this Autumn, and it will greet you with the most stunning scenery! It is an excellent opportunity for you to visit Zhangjiajie’s famous forest park, explore Hallelujah Mountain of Yuanjiajie, appreciate Tianzi Mountain's peak forests, look for the most pristine scenery at Yangjiajie, challenge the thrilling Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge, etc.

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, the tourism tag of Zhangjiajie, is the best spot to visit during Autumn. Climbing up or take the cableway up to Huangshizhai for overlooking the forest park and Hiking along the Golden Whip Stream to look for cute monkeys are highly recommended to do in the forest park. Along your trip, you will see the forest showing amazingly colorful colors, with leaves transforming from green to red. On a sunny day, the forest park just looks shinning under the sunlight, the blue sky with little clouds is so fascinating, and the cute Golden Whip Stream Hiking is also shinning and crystal clean. Even on rainy days, you will also be fascinated by the extreme beauty of the forests. The clouds, mist, partly hidden and partly visible mountains, scattered raindrop over plants, fresh air, etc. will draw you to visit.

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You may know about the famous film Avatar, but what you may not know is that the prototype of those floating Hallelujah Mountains in the movie are inspired by Yuanjiajie in Zhangjiajie. Yuanjiajie, located in the north part of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park at Wulingyuan is rightly the shooting location of those “Hallelujah Mountains” in reality.

With so fascinating scenery, particularly its mysterious view shrouded in clouds and mists after some drizzle, Yuanjiajie changes extremely appealing to global tourists and is praised as the mysterious "Pandora World". Once entering this "magical world", visitors are greeted by thousands of peculiar mountains standing spectacularly with distinct shapes and postures from the deep valley before their eyes, experience how fast an elevator in the world can reach, know how nature "builds" a stone bridge without manpower, etc.

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Tianzi Mountain, located at the north of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, is reputed as "the Monarch of the Peak Forest". It is said to combine the beauty of Guilin, the strangeness if not grotesqueness of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), the awesomeness of Mount Hua and the magnificence of Mount Tai.

Tianzi Mountain welcomes its visitors with breathtaking vistas, and the beautiful scenery in Autumn is highly recommended to explore. While taking the cable car up the mountain, you will behold the peak forest envoloped in clouds and mist while basking in warm sunlight. Those plants on the mountains also transform charming yellow or red which seem to wear an autumn clothes. If you are lucky enough, you would have the opportunity to see the Sea of Clouds, the Radiance of the Moonlight and Rays of Sunshine, which are 3 wonders of Tianzi Mountain, and the last one is Snow in winter.

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Most of you heard about Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon may just because of the Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge spanning across it. This glass bridge is certainly thrilling and exciting and thus captivates many adventurers. It is a large glass bridge with a full length of 430 m and a height of about 300 m above the valley bottom, which is an unbeatable man-made wonder. The bottom of the bridge is paved with transparent glasses and each piece of the glass is extremely large. Walk from one side of the bridge to the other side needs about 1 hour! You can have a bird eye’ view of the surrounding verdant canyon.

However, the grand canyon itself is also worthwhile for exploring. You will be dazzled with the multiple types of waters and lush plants that form a heaven on earth and will drive all your annoyance far away. You could also experience the High Ladder Raised Walkway (天梯栈道) and Nuokeli Slideway (诺克里滑道), and walk along the stone way of Holy Spring Valley (神泉峡).

Tianmen Mountain, the second national forest in Zhangjiajie, is listed as one of the "50 worthwhile visiting places for foreign travelers". Someone entitle this mountain as the most beautiful flower garden in the sky and the fairly land in the boundary of heaven. It is worth to visit for the miraculous and unique geographic landform and unparalleled natural landscape, as well as for its profound cultural connotations and famous colorful humanistic site.

While taking the cableway, with a total length of 7455 meters and a height gap of 1279 meters, up the mountain, you will see the Avenue toward Heaven with 99 Turns and the changing autumn scenery, which will be so amazing. Meanwhile, the Tianmen Cave surrounded by clouds and mist looks mysterious while overlooking from the cable car. Furthermore, you could experience the cliff-hanging walkway or the breath-taking glass walkway, travel through Tianmen Cave, etc.

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Yangjiajie, the lately developed scenic area of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, is famous for its Wonder of Walls. The Walls is a geological wonder in the world, which said to have almost 380 million years' old, which is even older than other stone peaks or walls in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Yangjiajie is also well-known for its magnificence, steepness, comeliness and tranquility. Here you could explore the house of brigands in ancient China after hiking a thrilling road, see grotesque peaks, find exotic flowers and vines, play with cute stream and waterfall. Come and have an adventure here!

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● It is recommended to wear long sleeves shirt and pants. You could also take overcoat, because it may be cold during night.
● Bring raincoat and water-proof sports shoes in case of unexpected rain.
● Wear comfortable sports shoes, because there are some roads without any transportation.

Walking/Hiking Tips:

1. Be sure not to explore the areas marked with "No Passing" or "Dangerous". Don’t go some wild hiking route, because it may be dangerous.

2. While hiking along Golden Whip Stream or Huangshizhai, please remember not to take any food in your hand in case that you are hurt by the wild monkeys on the path. If they are interested in your food, they will catch it from your hands.

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