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Typhoon, snow and ice warnings, and the road closures that follow them. The town weather page is the leading indicator and the county portal the record.

  1. Weekly dispatch

    Moganshan dispatch, week 45: rain for the Spartan Race weekend

    Week 45, 2026

    Rain is forecast for both days of the Spartan Race on 7 and 8 November. No visa free extension had been announced by Wednesday, the red maple season still has no date, and local winter shoots arrive this month.

    For a visitor: If you can choose your days, walk on Friday: Saturday and Sunday are forecast wet, and the Spartan Race fills the resort on both.

  2. Weekly dispatch

    Moganshan dispatch, week 44

    Week 44, 2026

    Thursday to Saturday are forecast dry and mild, and rain returns on Sunday. Spartan Race entries close at midnight on Saturday, and the county paper now reports the Skyrace field at 15,000 in its own words.

    For a visitor: If you can choose your days, walk on Friday or Saturday: both are forecast dry, Sunday brings light rain, and Tuesday is wetter still.

  3. Weekly dispatch

    Moganshan dispatch, week 43

    Week 43, 2026

    Rain is forecast from Friday to Sunday, the same three days the Skyrace fills Yucun and the paths above it. Spartan Race entries close on 31 October, and three new places are open at Laoling and on Yujie.

    For a visitor: If you are on the mountain this weekend, expect rain from Friday to Sunday and runners on the paths and in Yucun from Friday evening; Monday is the first dry day in the forecast.

  4. Cold air brings rain to the first half of the holiday, then autumn

    A cold front from the north is pushing Deqing into autumn this week. The first four days of the holiday look wet and windy, the last three dry, with mornings in the low teens in the county town and colder on the mountain.

    For a visitor: Pack a waterproof and a warm layer, and if you can choose the day for a long walk on the mountain, take 5, 6 or 7 October rather than the first four days of the holiday.

    • Weekly dispatch

      Moganshan dispatch, week 39

      Week 39, 2026

      The Hangzhou to Deqing railway has its wayfinding signs up and its station shopping centre opening this week, but no published opening date. Two new places to stop have opened in a Moganshan village.

      For a visitor: Nothing this week changes a trip you have already booked. If you are planning National Day, no Golden Week programme for Moganshan has been published with a week to go, and the Hangzhou to Deqing railway still has no opening date, so plan on arriving at Deqing station exactly as you would have done in the spring.

    • Osmanthus is in flower on Moganshan, weeks ahead of the valley

      More than seven hundred trees are opening across the mountain, and the main flush runs for weeks rather than one weekend. The mountain is ahead of the valley because it is colder.

      For a visitor: If the scent is what you are coming for, you have weeks rather than a single weekend, and the two places the county paper names are both inside the ticketed scenic area.