text: Xuchang has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with four distinct seasons. Winters are cool and dry, summers hot and humid, spring begins early and is warm, and autumn is mild and provides a reasonable transition. Rain mainly falls from May to September, as more than 70% of the annual precipitation occurs then. The city has an annual mean temperature of at , and its highest average monthly temperature is  in July and the lowest is  in January. Just over  of precipitation falls each year, the growing season averages 217 days and there is 2280 hours of sunshine per year.
  Economy
  Xuchang is an important center of the Chinese tobacco industry.
  The manufacturing industry the city is best known for is wigs and hair extensions with exports worth about $1 billion in 2016. The industry started around 1900 when German merchants purchased hair from the local area. It was revived in the 1980s and in 1990 a local entrepreneur Zheng Youquan merged a number of smaller hair manufacturing workshops into Rebecca Hair Products, a larger entity that quickly expanded to international markets and became the largest wig maker in the world.
  Education
  Xuchang University is in the city.
  Tourism
  Famous tourist attractions include Baling Bridge and Chunqiu Tower.
  Sister city
  On 18 December 2006, the Oromia Region government in Ethiopia signed an agreement with Henan Province to establish a sister city program with Ambo. Bolingbrook, Illinois is also a sister city of Xuchang.