Xuzhou is located in the southeast of the North China Plain. Xuzhou has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with cool winters, warm springs, long, hot and humid summers, and crisp autumns. Monthly daily averages range from 0.4 °C (32.7 °F) in January to 27.1 °C (80.8 °F) in July. Snow may occur during winter, though rarely heavily. Precipitation is light in winter, and the annual total of 830 millimetres (32.7 in) is heavily concentrated from May to September
