呼和浩特

HohhotTravel Budget Guide

Tier 2·IATA: HET

When to visit

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
  • extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
  • highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
  • extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
  • highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
  • highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
  • extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥8starting fare

Attractions

Laoniuwan Yellow River Canyon老牛湾黄河大峡谷旅游区5A$5.91 (CN¥40)
Da Zhao Temple (Hohhot)大召寺4A$5.17 (CN¥35)
Inner Mongolia Museum内蒙古博物院4AHeritage Site$0.00 (CN¥0)
Shenquan Eco-Scenic Area神泉生态旅游景区4A$11.82 (CN¥80)
Daqingshan Wildlife Park大青山野生动物园4A$4.43 (CN¥30)
Wang Zhaojun Museum (Hohhot)昭君博物院4A$0.00 (CN¥0)
Chilechuan Grassland Cultural Area敕勒川草原文化旅游区4A$17.74 (CN¥120)
Monishan Heritage Town莫尼山非遗小镇4AHeritage Site$4.43 (CN¥30)
A Thousand Years of Horse Ode (Show)千古马颂—$40.05 (CN¥271)
Xilituzhao Monastery席力图召—$3.40 (CN¥23)
Saishang Old Street塞上老街—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Hadamen National Forest Park哈达门国家森林公园—$5.91 (CN¥40)
Yili Health Valley Tourist Attraction伊利健康谷旅游景区—$5.62 (CN¥38)
General's Government Office of Suiyuan City绥远城将军衙署—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Great Mosque清真大寺—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Islamic Style Street伊斯兰商街—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Hohhot Great Mosque Square呼和浩特清真大寺广场—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Mazong Mountain Resort马鬃山度假区—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Mazong Mountain Ski Resort马鬃山滑雪场—$22.17 (CN¥150)
Mansion of Princess Heshuo Kejing和硕恪靖公主府—$0.00 (CN¥0)

Hotels

Budget

$17.74 (CN¥120)
/night

Standard

$23.06 (CN¥156)
/night

Comfort

$39.17 (CN¥265)
/night

Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.

Food

Budget meal

$3.70 (CN¥25)
/meal

Mid-range

$10.64 (CN¥72)
/meal

High-end

$34.59 (CN¥234)
/meal
Must try:
  • Shumai dumplings
    烧麦 · Shāomài
  • Lamb hotpot
    涮羊肉 · Shuàn yángròu
  • Hand-held boiled mutton
    手扒肉 · Shǒubā ròu
  • Mongolian milk tea
    蒙古奶茶 · Měnggǔ nǎichá
  • Oat noodles
    莜面 · Yóumiàn
  • Mongolian stuffed pancake
    蒙古馅饼 · Měnggǔ xiànbǐng
  • Mutton offal soup
    羊杂碎 · Yáng zásuì
  • Braised noodles
    焖面 · Mènmiàn
Styles:Fast food · Street snacks · Noodle house

Culture & Heritage

Time-Honored Brands (3)

MOFCOM-certified · cultural background, not a business endorsement
Inner Mongolia Minzu (Nationality) Shopping MallBatch 2
A commercial landmark of old Hohhot and one of the few Inner Mongolian retailers on the Ministry of Commerce's China Time-Honored Brands list, woven into generations of the city's shopping life.
Hohhot City Winery (Fengzhou)Batch 2
A long-standing Hohhot distillery under Inner Mongolia Jinyuan Group, famed for its "Fengzhou" baijiu and listed in the Ministry of Commerce's second batch of China Time-Honored Brands.
MaixiangcunBatch 1
Est. 1929
A Hohhot restaurant dating to 1929, famed for its lamb shumai and oat noodles, a near-century emblem of the city's food culture.

Famous Snacks (6)

Hohhot Shumai (Lamb Steam Buns)Famous Snacks
Hohhot's most iconic breakfast — thin lotus-edged wrappers around a lamb-and-scallion filling, born in the tea houses of the old Mongol city and now provincial-level intangible heritage.
Naked-Oat Noodles (Youmian)Famous Snacks
A frontier staple made from naked-oat flour, shaped into nests, rolls or pressed noodles, once featured on the documentary "A Bite of China."
Hohhot Beizi (Baked Bread)Famous Snacks
A traditional baked layered bread of Hohhot's Hui district, crisp outside and soft within, a classic street breakfast of the city.
Lamb Offal SoupFamous Snacks
A hearty soup of lamb head, heart, liver and lungs, scattered with scallion and coriander and paired with beizi bread, a warming Hohhot breakfast for cold mornings.
Mongolian Milk TeaFamous Snacks
A salty tea brewed from brick tea, fresh milk and salt, scattered with parched millet and cream, the soul of the Mongolian "three teas a day" tradition.
Hand-Grasped LambFamous Snacks
Bone-in lamb simply boiled in water and eaten by hand with a knife, the most unadorned showcase of Inner Mongolian lamb.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (5)

Mongolian Horse-Head Fiddle (Morin Khuur) MusicNational ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非遗
The most representative instrumental art of the Mongolian people, with trapezoid body and horse-head scroll, its sound vast and mournful; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Mongolian Long-Song Folk SongNational ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非遗
The Mongolian "urtiin duu," long-breathed and richly ornamented, jointly nominated by China and Mongolia and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List in 2005.
Mongolian Khoomei (Throat Singing)National ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非遗
The wondrous art in which one singer sounds two voice-parts at once, declared by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Nadam FairNational ICH · Batch 第一批国家级非遗
The most representative traditional gathering of the Mongolian people, centred on the "three manly arts" of wrestling, archery and horse racing; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Paper-Cutting (Helinge'er Paper-Cutting)National ICH · Batch 国家级非遗
The paper-cutting tradition of Helinge'er County in Hohhot, a product of herding and farming cultures meeting, fresh and earthy with strong grassland character; a national-level ICH item.
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