Datong County
大通县 གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Autonomous county
大通回族土族自治县 རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། · دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎ · Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
Map
Location of Datong
CountryChina
ProvinceQinghai
Prefecture-level cityXining
SeatQiaotou Town
Area
 • Total3,090 km2 (1,190 sq mi)
Elevation
2,442 m (8,012 ft)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total403,368
 • Density130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese大通回族土族自治县
Traditional Chinese大通回族土族自治縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། or གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།

Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Datong County, or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese: 大通回族土族自治县; traditional Chinese: 大通回族土族自治縣; pinyin: Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn; Tibetan: རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང; or more frequently Tibetan: གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང; Monguor: Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan; Xiao'erjing: دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai.[1][2][3][4][5]

"Mount Laoye" as seen from Datong

Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[6]

Subdivisions

Datong County is divided into 9 towns, 9 townships, and 2 ethnic townships:

Climate

Climate data for Datong (1993–2020 normals)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 0.9
(33.6) 		4.8
(40.6) 		9.7
(49.5) 		15.2
(59.4) 		18.7
(65.7) 		21.4
(70.5) 		23.4
(74.1) 		22.5
(72.5) 		18.2
(64.8) 		13.1
(55.6) 		7.4
(45.3) 		2.2
(36.0) 		13.1
(55.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) −8.4
(16.9) 		−4.1
(24.6) 		1.5
(34.7) 		7.2
(45.0) 		11.2
(52.2) 		14.2
(57.6) 		16.2
(61.2) 		15.3
(59.5) 		11.2
(52.2) 		5.6
(42.1) 		−1.0
(30.2) 		−6.9
(19.6) 		5.2
(41.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −15.7
(3.7) 		−11.3
(11.7) 		−4.9
(23.2) 		0.3
(32.5) 		4.4
(39.9) 		7.8
(46.0) 		10.1
(50.2) 		9.8
(49.6) 		6.3
(43.3) 		0.4
(32.7) 		−6.9
(19.6) 		−13.8
(7.2) 		−1.1
(30.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 2.1
(0.08) 		2.1
(0.08) 		14.5
(0.57) 		33.1
(1.30) 		66.1
(2.60) 		86.1
(3.39) 		99.4
(3.91) 		115.1
(4.53) 		82.8
(3.26) 		28.5
(1.12) 		5
(0.2) 		1.4
(0.06) 		536.2
(21.1)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 3.7 4.2 6.5 8.2 13.0 16.5 17.1 17.4 16.5 9.1 3.5 3.1 118.8
Average snowy days 5.8 6.9 9.4 5.9 1.1 0 0 0 0 3.0 5.3 5.1 42.5
Average relative humidity (%) 51 47 48 50 56 64 69 72 74 67 60 55 59
Mean monthly sunshine hours 200.9 200.2 227.4 230.9 237.1 218.6 221.9 211.1 175.8 196.1 204.1 197.9 2,522
Percent possible sunshine 65 65 61 58 54 50 50 51 48 57 68 66 58
Source: China Meteorological Administration[7][8]

Transportation

See also

References

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  6. ^ Qinghai to hold 3rd flower festival China Internet Information Center June 5, 2012
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37°05′38″N 101°27′32″E / 37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459

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