Taxis and buses are the most popular ways of getting around; bus journeys being ¥1 regardless of distance traveled.  The taxi fare in Mudanjiang is also cheap compared to other cities in China with same scale and the initial starting price for a ride on taxi is ¥6 up to 3 kilometers. Beyond this mandatory starting-price-region, the rate is ¥1.2 per kilometer.  By plane You can fly into Mudanjiang (IATA: MDG) from Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Guangzhou, Qingdao and Yantai.

Mudanjiang features a monsoon-influenced, humid continental climate with hot, humid summers and very cold and dry winters; spring and autumn are brief. However, winter temperatures here are far warmer than much of the rest of the province, and the city's basin location helps protect it from biting winds. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −17.3 °C (0.9 °F) in January to 22.3 °C (72.1 °F) in July; the annual mean is 4.28 °C (39.7 °F). Close to three-fifths of the annual rainfall occurs from June to August. The city receives generous amounts of sunshine, with 2,368 hours of bright sunshine annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −35.1 °C (−31 °F) to 38.4 °C (101 °F).

Located in the southeastern of Heilongjiang Province, Mudanjiang boasts beautiful scenery with nickname “Southern and Northern scenes”. There are many tourists scenic in Mudanjiang, like JingPo Lake--China’s largest typical lava lake, snow fort--Mudanjiang host product and located on the middle of a river island of Mudanjiang, Lotus Lake - the biggest man-made lake of northern part of China etc. Mudanjiang is a tourist city with beautiful scenery and many tourist attractions. It is really a good place to study and live here.