Darlag County
Geography and Climate
With an elevation of around 3,970 metres (13,020 ft), Darlag County has an alpine climate (Köppen ET), bordering on a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc), with long, very cold winters, and short, rainy, cool summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid September to late May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation, average highs are only below freezing from mid/late November thru early March. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 47% in June to 70% in November, the county seat receives 2,467 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −12.0 °C (10.4 °F) in January to 9.8 °C (49.6 °F) in July, while the annual mean is −0.53 °C (31.0 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 558 mm (22.0 in) is delivered from June to September.
| Climate data for Darlag County, elevation 3,968 m (13,018 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2016) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.9 (53.4) |
10.4 (50.7) |
14.7 (58.5) |
18.3 (64.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.9 (71.4) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.4 (75.9) |
23.3 (73.9) |
20.9 (69.6) |
10.6 (51.1) |
10.1 (50.2) |
24.4 (75.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.4 (27.7) |
0.1 (32.2) |
3.4 (38.1) |
7.7 (45.9) |
11.3 (52.3) |
14.1 (57.4) |
16.6 (61.9) |
16.5 (61.7) |
13.6 (56.5) |
7.7 (45.9) |
2.6 (36.7) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
7.5 (45.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.8 (10.8) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−4.2 (24.4) |
0.7 (33.3) |
4.5 (40.1) |
8.0 (46.4) |
10.1 (50.2) |
9.5 (49.1) |
6.5 (43.7) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−5.9 (21.4) |
−10.9 (12.4) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.5 (−3.1) |
−15.8 (3.6) |
−10.4 (13.3) |
−4.9 (23.2) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
3.3 (37.9) |
5.0 (41.0) |
4.2 (39.6) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
−12.2 (10.0) |
−18.5 (−1.3) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −35.6 (−32.1) |
−30.3 (−22.5) |
−26.4 (−15.5) |
−16.1 (3.0) |
−10.8 (12.6) |
−4.8 (23.4) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
−5.2 (22.6) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−17.8 (0.0) |
−25.5 (−13.9) |
−34.0 (−29.2) |
−35.6 (−32.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6.8 (0.27) |
8.3 (0.33) |
16.3 (0.64) |
28.8 (1.13) |
66.7 (2.63) |
112.6 (4.43) |
113.0 (4.45) |
96.3 (3.79) |
80.5 (3.17) |
34.2 (1.35) |
5.8 (0.23) |
3.4 (0.13) |
572.7 (22.55) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.0 | 7.8 | 12.0 | 14.1 | 19.3 | 21.6 | 20.4 | 18.1 | 19.4 | 14.9 | 5.3 | 4.3 | 164.2 |
| Average snowy days | 8.8 | 10.3 | 14.8 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 3.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 4.9 | 14.6 | 7.1 | 6.2 | 103.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 50 | 49 | 52 | 56 | 63 | 69 | 70 | 70 | 72 | 67 | 55 | 49 | 60 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 192.3 | 178.9 | 209.8 | 225.5 | 214.0 | 186.5 | 216.3 | 216.1 | 189.1 | 198.8 | 208.1 | 203.5 | 2,438.9 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 57 | 56 | 57 | 49 | 43 | 50 | 53 | 52 | 57 | 68 | 66 | 56 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administrationall-time extreme temperature | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Darlag is divided into 1 town and 9 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town | ||||||
| Gyümai Town (Jimai) |
吉迈镇 | Jímài Zhèn | རྒྱུ་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyu smad grong rdal | 632624100 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Marzhing Township (Manzhang) |
满掌乡 | Mǎnzhǎng Xiāng | སྨར་འབྲིང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | smar 'bring yul tsho | 632624200 | |
| Dêrnang Township (De'ang) |
德昂乡 | Dé'áng Xiāng | སྡེར་ནང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | sder nang yul tsho | 632624201 | |
| Oisêr Township (Wosai) |
窝赛乡 | Wōsài Xiāng | འོད་ཟེར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | 'od zer yul tsho | 632624202 | |
| Boiba Township (Moba) |
莫坝乡 | Mòbà Xiāng | འབོ་པ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | 'bo pa yul tsho | 632624203 | |
| Boingor Doima Township (Shanghongke) |
上红科乡 | Shànghóngkē Xiāng | དཔོན་སྒོར་སྟོད་མ་ཞང་། | dpon sgor stod ma zhang | 632624204 | |
| Boingor Mangma Township (Xiahongke) |
下红科乡 | Xiàhóngkē Xiāng | དཔོན་སྐོར་སྨང་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dpon sgor smang ma yul tsho | 632624205 | |
| Zugzhün Township (Jianshe) |
建设乡 | Jiànshè Xiāng | འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | 'dzugs skrun yul tsho | 632624206 | |
| Sangrima Township (Sangrima, Sangruma) |
桑日麻乡 | Sāngrìmá Xiāng | གསང་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gsang ri ma yul tsho | 632624207 | |
| Dagtog Township (Tehetu) |
特合土乡 | Tèhétǔ Xiāng | སྟག་ཐོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | stag thog yul tsho | 632624208 | |
See also
References
- ^ "果洛州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——县级常住人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Hainan Prefecture. 2021-07-09.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
- ^ 中国地面国际交换站气候标准值月值数据集（1971－2000年）. China Meteorological Administration. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- ^ "Extreme Temperatures Around the World". Retrieved 2024-10-23.
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