The climate in Guide County is of mainland characteristic, rich in resources and with advantageous climate factors. Located in the Yellow River valley, Guide enjoys mild climate, fertile land and good water sources. After several generations of continuous afforestation, forest coverage of Guide Basin has been improved, and the river valley is covered by a large scale of forest. It seems like that Guide County is surrounded by boundless see of forest. In suburban, verdant forests are here and there, the water is gurgling restlessly, the birds are singing happily while the flowers are busy giving force their fragrance. On the river beach, ten thousand acres artificial forest of erect poplar trees and shadowed weeping willows, now has been designated as a National Prior Non-commercial Forest Reserve and Guide Reach of Yellow River Forest Park of Qinghai Province. Besides that, the surroundings are many natural forest regions as well as wide and beautiful grassy meadows densely spotted with numerous flocks and herds. "Sanhe area" in Guide county is like the fertile plains  lying south of the Yangtze River, thus renowned as "little fertile plain of Qinghai Plateau."

 The water in Guide reach of Yellow River is crystal clear like the flowing streams, therefore, it was inscripted "the clearest water of Yellow River is in Guide" by the former Vice-Premier Qian Qichen in July, 2000 when he paid an inspection visit in Guide County. Such clear water is the result of proper protection on ecological environment of Yellow River. In Guide County, the towns are in great harmonious matching with the rivers, the canyons, the shallow seas and tidelands, the green space, the lakes as well as the water and electricity project, forming a distinctive landscape of tremendous tourism value. In the entire district of 76.8 kilometer Yellow River, there are three canyons named Longyang Gorge, Laxiwa Gorge and Songba Gorge. The cutting depths of the canyons are tremendous, at the least of merely 530 meters and the maximum of 800 meters in Longyang Gorge. The width of stream bed is generally between 45 and 80 meters while the narrowest is only 30 meters in Longyang Gorge. The dale in Guide reach of Yellow River is curing with multiple mid-channel bars, due to its location between Laxiwa Gorge and Songba Gorge, with general 1000-2500 meters of stream bed width and at the maximum of 3200 meters. In the developing section of the step hydropower stations in the upper Yellow River, there have built Longyang Gorge Hydropower Station, Nina Gorge Hydropower Station and Lijia Gorge Hydropower Station, forming an area of 383 square kilometers of Longyang Lake and Kambula Lake of 120 square kilometers. Meanwhile, Laxiwa hydropower station, located below the Longyang Gorge, constructed since 2001 with the first outcome electricity in 2008, has achieved the complete construction in 2011 and has been putting into the service of generating electricity.

 In Guide County, the combinations of different Yellow River landscapes are rich and distinctive, such as along the running crystal Yellow River in the spring, in sight there must be the rippling and shinning tidelands and lakes, or deep stream valley sceneries of the famous Longyang Gorge, Laxiwa Gorge and Songba Gorge, in which the foaming torrent is breezing bravely against the upright cliff, excitingly and vigorously. It is undoubtedly a picturesque landscape of canyon, tideland and lakes being spaced in harmoniously, as well as of the crystal water, the splendid cliff and the oasis living happily together. Anyone to be there will enjoy the refreshing scenery and be reluctant to leave.