The temporal and spatial characteristics of precipitation at the regional scale has great practical values for the ecological conservation in arid and semi-arid areas. The daily precipitation dataset including 14 meteorological observation stations in Northwest Hebei Province during 1960-2016 was used, and the Mann-Kendall non-parametric testing method and and the inverse distance weight (IDW) interpolation method were employed to analyze the spatial distribution of precipitation. The results showed that: During 1960-2016, monsoon was weakened, the precipitation in autumn, winter and spring showed increasing trend, while the precipitation in summer reduced. The mean annual precipitation of each site increased in the Northwest Hebei Province (NHP) (Z=0.13,β=0.08 mm/a). The dry or wet trend also varied spatially, and the four sites in the arid northern area of Bashang Region showed no significantly decrease in precipitation. But in the relatively wetter southern area of Baxia Region, five sites became wetter or became drier respectively. The spatial distribution of precipitation varied: wetter in the south-eastern and drier in the north-western region, while the wettest value and the driest value were in the eastern NHP and northwestern NHP, respectively.