Figure skating at the 1996 Winter Asian Games took place in the city of Harbin, China with four events contested. This edition of the Winter Asiad marks the return of the sport after a ten-year absence. The previous Asian Winter Games were held in Sapporo, Japan.
| Men's singles | ||||
| Women's singles | ||||
| Pairs | Zhao Hongbo Shen Xue | Andrey Kryukov Marina Khalturina | Liu Bingyang Sun Bao | |
| Ice dancing | Dmitriy Kazarlyga Elizaveta Stekolnikova | Hiroshi Tanaka Aya Kawai | Cao Xianming Zhang Weina |