Determining the response of abrupt temperature changes/warming hiatuses to changes in their influencing factors can provide a reference for investigating their mechanism. The present study, using the Mann-Kendall test, based on data (including average minimum temperature (T-min), average temperature (T-ave) and average maximum temperature (T-max)) recorded at 357 meteorological stations in northern China and its surrounding regions as well as large-spatial-scale data (e.g. Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), global radiative forcing of CO2(RFCO2) and radiative forcing of annual greenhouse gases (RFAGG)) for the period 1951-2016, the characteristics of abrupt temperature changes/warming hiatuses and their response to their influencing factors were qualitatively and quantitatively determined. The following results were obtained. Overall, from the late 1970s to the 1990s, as the RF(AGG)continuously increased, the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) remained in a positive phase, the AMO and total solar radiation (SR) continuously increased, the multivariate El Nino southern oscillation (ENSO) index (MEI) changed abruptly, the wind speed (WS), atmospheric pressure (AP) and relative humidity (RH) in each zone continuously decreased/increased, their trends changing subsequently, and abrupt changes in the three temperature metrics (i.e. theT(min),T(ave)andT(max)) occurred in each zone during the period 1977-2004. Similarly, in the 1990s, particularly after 1998, as the increase in the AMO slowed, the PDO was in either a positive phase but exhibited a decreasing trend or a negative phase, the MEI and SR decreased, the WS, AP and RH decreased/increased, with subsequent changes in trends, and warming hiatuses occurred. The sensitivities of the responses of theT(min)to changes in the three types of influencing factors were the highest, followed by those of theT(ave)andT(max). The effects of various influencing factors on the three kinds of temperature change and warming hiatus have strong spatial and temporal differences. As a result, there was a strong spatial difference in the year of the abrupt temperature change and the warming hiatus.