Zamthang County
Zamtang County or Ndzamthang County (Tibetan: འཛམ་ཐང་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dzam thang rdzong, ZYPY: Camtang Zong ), or Rangtang County (Chinese: 壤塘县; pinyin: Rǎngtáng Xiàn) is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Qinghai Province to the north. It is the westernmost county-level division of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.
Zamtang County 壤塘县 · འཛམ་ཐང་རྫོང་། | |
|---|---|
County | |
.png) Location of Zamtang County (red) within Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6,836 km2 (2,639 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Climate
| Climate data for Zamtang (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 19.0 (66.2) |
20.5 (68.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
26.5 (79.7) |
28.7 (83.7) |
29.3 (84.7) |
29.7 (85.5) |
31.2 (88.2) |
28.6 (83.5) |
25.9 (78.6) |
23.3 (73.9) |
19.3 (66.7) |
31.2 (88.2) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 7.0 (44.6) |
8.7 (47.7) |
11.5 (52.7) |
14.8 (58.6) |
17.9 (64.2) |
19.8 (67.6) |
21.6 (70.9) |
21.4 (70.5) |
18.9 (66.0) |
15.1 (59.2) |
11.1 (52.0) |
7.8 (46.0) |
14.6 (58.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.4 (24.1) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
1.9 (35.4) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.1 (48.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
13.4 (56.1) |
12.7 (54.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
5.9 (42.6) |
0.0 (32.0) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
5.0 (41.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −12.6 (9.3) |
−9.7 (14.5) |
−5.3 (22.5) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
2.9 (37.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
8.2 (46.8) |
7.5 (45.5) |
5.4 (41.7) |
0.5 (32.9) |
−7.0 (19.4) |
−11.9 (10.6) |
−1.4 (29.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.5 (−10.3) |
−20.8 (−5.4) |
−17.6 (0.3) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
0.5 (32.9) |
−0.6 (30.9) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
−10.8 (12.6) |
−16.9 (1.6) |
−23.4 (−10.1) |
−23.5 (−10.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.0 (0.16) |
7.6 (0.30) |
21.9 (0.86) |
42.8 (1.69) |
92.2 (3.63) |
148.3 (5.84) |
143.3 (5.64) |
120.3 (4.74) |
111.9 (4.41) |
50.2 (1.98) |
7.5 (0.30) |
3.4 (0.13) |
753.4 (29.68) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 45 | 45 | 51 | 57 | 64 | 74 | 76 | 76 | 78 | 70 | 54 | 49 | 62 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[1] | |||||||||||||
References
- 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
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