Each January, a strange and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northern Chinese city of Harbin. Some would argue that the place has enough ice already.

A visitor plays a unique piano embedded in an ice sculpture in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Jan. 15, ...

A Russian team won the 37th China Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition on Sunday at the Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. After a comprehensive evaluation across ...

Explore the 2026 Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. Discover key locations with updated dates and travel tips.

Sculptors converged over the weekend on the frigid northern Chinese city of Harbin for the annual Ice and Snow Festival, as ...

Harbin, in China's Heilongjiang province, has opened its largest edition of the annual Ice and Snow World for the 27th year running and sculpture maintenance and preparations were ongoing on Sunday ...

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival returns with record ice builds, drone shows and winter sports, drawing visitors to China’s ...

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival returns with record ice builds, drone shows and winter sports, drawing visitors to China’s ...

Han Yuanjun, a researcher at the China Tourism Academy, analyzed that the hot climate and the scarcity of ice and snow ...

The annual event, held at the Harbin Ice and Snow World, has grown exponentially since its humble beginnings as an ice lantern show in 1985. It has since become one of the world's four largest ice and ...