Shannan Climate & Weather

Brief Information

The features of Shannan Climate are: not distinct four seasons, moderate temperature, adequate light, thin air, dry, uneven distribution of annual precipitation, and diverse climate resource allocation. Shannan’s annual average temperature is between 7 to 18 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature is around 25 to 29 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature is about -15.2 ~ -10.4 degrees Celsius. The whole region’s average annual rainfall is 270 to 400 mm, annual average sunshine hours is 1800 to 2500 hours.

Shannan climate is characterized by cold and rainy spring, and it is often windy and heavy snow in southern Shannan. Shannan spring’s average temperature is 7 ~ 15 ℃. In summer, with the forming of summer monsoon circulation system, Shannan prevail southeast wind, and also the Northwest Pacific subtropical high activities has great influence to Shannan’s weather, while the northern cold air still has some impact. In Fall, summer wind gradually weakened, and it transits to winter monsoon, cyclones are frequent frontal precipitation are more cold and warm temperatures changed greatly. In winter, the East Asian winter monsoon strength depends primarily on the activities of the Mongolian cold high pressure , air mass north Shannan weather constrained ( ie winter winds ) the impact of weather processes species is relatively small.

Climate Data Table for Shannan

Month Item	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average Temperature (℃)	-0.4	2.4	5.9	8.9	12.6	16.0	15.9	15.1	13.5	9.7	4.0	0.0
maximum temperature (℃)	8.0	10.0	13.5	16.6	20.3	23.4	22.9	21.9	20.6	17.8	12.8	8.9
minimum temperature (℃)	-8.3	-5.3	-1.6	1.7	5.6	9.5	10.5	10.0	8.2	2.8	-3.3	-7.4
Rainfall (mm)	0.3	0.6	4.4	10.6	25.8	58.1	103.8	109.8	61.5	6.8	1.2	0.3
Days of rainfall	2.6	3.5	3.8	3.5	3.1	2.8	2.5	2.6	2.4	2.5	2.4	2.0

Tips

•Best time to visit Shannan:

The best time to visit Shannan is from June to August. However, Shannan is suitable for visiting all year round. Shannan Prefecture is located in the river valley of the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, belonging to the temperate semi-arid and sub-humid plateau monsoon climate, with a long winter without summer, no cold winter. The average annual temperature is 5 ~ 8 ℃, the average temperature in the coldest month is 2 ~ 12 ℃, and average temperature of the warmest month is 10 ~ 18 ℃. It is the prefecture which is relatively warm in the entire Tibetan Plateau.

•Try to Avoid domestic travel seasons

Try to plan your Shannan tour to avoid the peak holidays. Because they are popular with Chinese tourists, Shannan attractions become more crowded in these periods.

The most crowded seasons in China are Chinese Spring Festival (usually in late Jan or early Feb.), International Labor Day (May 01 to 03) and National Day (Oct 01-07). Spring Festival and the National Day golden week are the most crowded time for travelling.

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