黄山

HuangshanTravel Budget Guide

Tier 3·IATA: TXN

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
  • highAutumn foliage peak· Late Oct – early Nov
Taxi flag-drop:¥7starting fare

Attractions

Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)黄山风景区5A$28.08 (CN¥190)
Hongcun Ancient Village宏村景区5AHeritage Site$13.89 (CN¥94)
Xidi Village西递5A$13.89 (CN¥94)
Old Huizhou Cultural Tourist Area古徽州文化旅游区5A$0.00 (CN¥0)
Mount Qiyun Scenic Area齐云山景区4A$8.42 (CN¥57)
Xin'an River Landscape Gallery新安江山水画廊4A$4.43 (CN¥30)
Taiping Lake太平湖4A$11.82 (CN¥80)
Huashan Mystery Caves花山谜窟4A$10.64 (CN¥72)
Nanping Scenic Area南屏景区4A$5.62 (CN¥38)
Chengkan Ancient Village呈坎—$15.22 (CN¥103)
Huizhou Ancient City徽州古城—Heritage Site$7.09 (CN¥48)
Mukeng Bamboo Sea木坑竹海—$5.03 (CN¥34)
Yangchan Tulou阳产土楼—$4.14 (CN¥28)
Xihai Grand Canyon西海大峡谷—$14.78 (CN¥100)
Tangyue Archway Group and Bao's Family Garden棠樾牌坊群鲍家花园—$14.48 (CN¥98)
Tunxi Old Street屯溪老街—Heritage Site$0.00 (CN¥0)
Tachuan Village塔川—$5.17 (CN¥35)
Huangshan Huixiu Show黄山徽秀—$24.83 (CN¥168)
Xixinan Ancient Village西溪南古村落—$0.00 (CN¥0)
Lucun Village卢村—$6.65 (CN¥45)
China Hui Cuisine Museum中国徽菜博物馆—Heritage SiteFree

Hotels

Budget

$20.84 (CN¥141)
/night

Standard

$29.26 (CN¥198)
/night

Comfort

$65.03 (CN¥440)
/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

$3.55 (CN¥24)
/meal

Mid-range

$10.35 (CN¥70)
/meal

High-end

$33.99 (CN¥230)
/meal
Must try:
  • Stinky mandarin fish
    臭鳜鱼 · Chòu guìyú
  • Hairy fermented tofu
    毛豆腐 · Máo dòufu
  • Huangshan baked sesame cakes
    黄山烧饼 · Huángshān shāobǐng
  • Huizhou layered hotpot
    徽州一品锅 · Huīzhōu yīpǐn guō
  • Steamed cured pork
    刀板香 · Dāobǎn xiāng
  • Braised pork with dried bamboo
    笋干烧肉 · Sǔngān shāoròu
  • Ham and soft-shell turtle soup
    火腿炖甲鱼 · Huǒtuǐ dùn jiǎyú
  • Fern shoots with cured pork
    蕨菜炒腊肉 · Juécài chǎo làròu
Styles:Anhui · Street snacks · Fast food · Noodle house

Culture & Heritage

Time-Honored Brands (3)

MOFCOM-certified · cultural background, not a business endorsement
Hu Kaiwen (Hui Ink)Batch 1
Est. 1765
A Hui-ink house founded in 1765 in the Qing dynasty, the leading name of the Xiu-ning school and the largest and most celebrated ink-making family in Chinese history.
Huizhou Guli (Huizhou Hometown)Batch 1
A recognised Chinese time-honoured brand built around Huizhou-cuisine banquets, weaving the craft of Hui cooking together with Huizhou-merchant culture into a flagship taste of authentic Hui cuisine.
Hu XingtangBatch 1
A decades-old house on Tunxi Old Street famed for its Huangshan baked cakes (crab-shell yellow), a flagship of Huizhou teatime snacks.

Famous Snacks (5)

Stinky Mandarin FishFamous Snacks
The signature dish of Hui cuisine: mandarin fish barrel-cured and fermented, then red-braised, pungent to smell yet savoury to eat, the very emblem of Huizhou flavour.
Huizhou Hairy TofuFamous Snacks
Fermented tofu clothed in white mycelium, pan-fried golden on both sides, crisp outside and creamy within, a street delicacy unique to Huizhou.
Huangshan Baked Cake (Crab-Shell Yellow)Famous Snacks
A crab-shell-shaped Huizhou baked cake, shatter-crisp and filled with dried vegetable and pork, the signature edible souvenir of Tunxi Old Street.
Huangshan Maofeng TeaFamous Snacks
One of China's ten great teas, grown in the high gardens of Mount Huangshan, famed for its golden fish-leaf and white down and its clear, fresh, mellow liquor.
Dao Ban Xiang (Cured Pork on the Board)Famous Snacks
The emblem of Huizhou cured meats, steamed and sliced on a camphor-wood board so meat and wood aromas mingle, savoury and rich yet never cloying.

Intangible Cultural Heritage (5)

Hui Ink Making TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 首批国家级非遗
The ancient Hui-ink craft rooted in the late Tang, refining soot from tung oil, pine and lacquer; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Huizhou Three CarvingsNational ICH · Batch 首批国家级非遗
The collective name for the brick, stone and wood carving of Huizhou architecture, intricate as paper-cutting; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Hui Cuisine Cooking TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 第二批国家级非遗
The traditional cooking craft of Hui cuisine, one of China's eight great culinary schools, famed for rich oil, deep colour and exacting heat; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.
She Inkstone Making TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 首批国家级非遗
The carving craft of the She inkstone, one of China's four great inkstones, famed for gripping the brush yet never resisting the ink; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.
Green Tea Technique (Huangshan Maofeng)National ICH · Batch 第二批国家级非遗
The pan-firing craft of Huangshan Maofeng tea, created in the Guangxu reign; a second-batch national ICH item from 2008.
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