County in Qinghai, China
Chindu County (Tibetan : ཁྲི་འདུ་རྫོང་། ) or Chenduo County (Chinese : 称多县 ) is a county of Qinghai Province , China, bordering Sichuan to the east. It is under the administration of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture .
Administrative divisions
Chindu is divided to 5 towns and 2 townships.[ 2]
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Towns
Chiwang Town (Chengwen)
称文镇
Chēngwén Zhèn
ཁྲི་དབང་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
khri dbang grong brdal
632723100
Xêwu Town (Xiewu)
歇武镇
Xiēwǔ Zhèn
བཞི་དབུས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
bzhi dbus grong rdal
632723101
Zadoi Town (Zhaduo)
扎朵镇
Zhāduǒ Zhèn
རྫ་སྟོད་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
rdza stod grong brdal
632723102
Domda Town (Qingshuihe)
清水河镇
Qīngshuǐhé Zhèn
སྡོམ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sdom mda' grong rdal
632723103
Chainqên Town (Zhenqin)
珍秦镇
Zhēnqín Zhèn
དྲན་ཆེན་གྲོང་བརྡལ།
dran chen grong brdal
632723104
Townships
Gadoi Township (Gaduo)
尕朵乡
Gǎduǒ Xiāng
སྒ་སྟོད་ཞང་།
sga stod zhang
632723200
Lab Township (Labu)
拉布乡
Lābù Xiāng
ལབ་ཞང་།
lab zhang
632723201
Climate
Chindu County has an alpine climate (Köppen climate classification ETH ). The average annual temperature in Chindu is −4.3 °C (24.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 519.8 mm (20.46 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 7.0 °C (44.6 °F), and lowest in January, at around −16.6 °C (2.1 °F).
Climate data for Qingshuihezhen, Chindu County, elevation 4,415 m (14,485 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
9.4 (48.9)
7.3 (45.1)
12.2 (54.0)
16.2 (61.2)
19.3 (66.7)
20.3 (68.5)
22.5 (72.5)
20.8 (69.4)
19.2 (66.6)
16.8 (62.2)
8.9 (48.0)
6.5 (43.7)
22.5 (72.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
−5.8 (21.6)
−3.2 (26.2)
0.5 (32.9)
4.8 (40.6)
8.6 (47.5)
11.7 (53.1)
14.1 (57.4)
13.9 (57.0)
11.1 (52.0)
4.8 (40.6)
−0.6 (30.9)
−4.2 (24.4)
4.6 (40.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−16.3 (2.7)
−13.1 (8.4)
−8.6 (16.5)
−3.0 (26.6)
1.3 (34.3)
5.1 (41.2)
7.4 (45.3)
6.7 (44.1)
3.6 (38.5)
−3.0 (26.6)
−10.5 (13.1)
−15.3 (4.5)
−3.8 (25.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−25.4 (−13.7)
−22.1 (−7.8)
−16.8 (1.8)
−9.5 (14.9)
−4.3 (24.3)
0.1 (32.2)
1.9 (35.4)
1.1 (34.0)
−1.3 (29.7)
−8.3 (17.1)
−18 (0)
−24.3 (−11.7)
−10.6 (13.0)
Record low °C (°F)
−41.2 (−42.2)
−38.8 (−37.8)
−36.6 (−33.9)
−24.3 (−11.7)
−15.6 (3.9)
−10.3 (13.5)
−6.6 (20.1)
−10.9 (12.4)
−14.7 (5.5)
−29.5 (−21.1)
−35.8 (−32.4)
−41.9 (−43.4)
−41.9 (−43.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
8.3 (0.33)
8.6 (0.34)
14.2 (0.56)
23.9 (0.94)
57.9 (2.28)
100.9 (3.97)
102.2 (4.02)
92.3 (3.63)
76.3 (3.00)
34.2 (1.35)
6.2 (0.24)
3.3 (0.13)
528.3 (20.79)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
7.0
8.2
11.8
13.9
19.5
22.7
20.3
18.9
20.5
14.7
5.6
4.4
167.5
Average snowy days
9.1
10.1
14.9
16.4
20.8
11.4
3.4
3.7
12.5
17.1
7.6
6.1
133.1
Average relative humidity (%)
58
56
57
61
68
74
74
74
76
72
63
56
66
Mean monthly sunshine hours
205.6
188.7
221.3
232.9
225.4
185.2
210.6
203.8
180.7
211.7
224.5
221.4
2,511.8
Percent possible sunshine
65
60
59
59
52
43
48
50
49
61
73
72
58
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 3] [ 4]
References