Lingqiu County
灵丘县 Lingkiu | |
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 Jueshan Brick Pagoda (觉山寺) | |
  Lingqiu Location of the seat in Shanxi | |
| Coordinates: 39°26′33″N 114°14′04″E / 39.44250°N 114.23444°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shanxi |
| Prefecture-level city | Datong |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 靈邱縣 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 灵丘县 | ||||||||
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Lingqiu County is a county under the administration of Datong City, in the northeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Hebei province to the east.
Under the Han, Lingqiu County was part of Dai Prefecture. In 1626, the county suffered a magnitude 7.0 earthquake with the loss of more than 5,200 lives.[1]
| Climate data for Lingqiu (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) |
19.7 (67.5) |
27.0 (80.6) |
35.5 (95.9) |
36.1 (97.0) |
39.9 (103.8) |
41.5 (106.7) |
35.7 (96.3) |
34.3 (93.7) |
28.6 (83.5) |
22.3 (72.1) |
14.9 (58.8) |
41.5 (106.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.2 (31.6) |
3.8 (38.8) |
10.4 (50.7) |
18.2 (64.8) |
24.1 (75.4) |
27.8 (82.0) |
28.8 (83.8) |
27.3 (81.1) |
22.9 (73.2) |
16.4 (61.5) |
7.9 (46.2) |
0.8 (33.4) |
15.7 (60.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.6 (16.5) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
2.3 (36.1) |
10.2 (50.4) |
16.6 (61.9) |
20.8 (69.4) |
22.6 (72.7) |
20.9 (69.6) |
15.4 (59.7) |
8.6 (47.5) |
0.1 (32.2) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
8.1 (46.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−11 (12) |
−4.4 (24.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
9.2 (48.6) |
14.3 (57.7) |
17.4 (63.3) |
15.8 (60.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
2.5 (36.5) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−12.3 (9.9) |
2.0 (35.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.5 (−15.7) |
−25.6 (−14.1) |
−21.8 (−7.2) |
−8.9 (16.0) |
−2.7 (27.1) |
4.5 (40.1) |
7.7 (45.9) |
5.5 (41.9) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−22.8 (−9.0) |
−26.9 (−16.4) |
−26.9 (−16.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.4 (0.06) |
2.9 (0.11) |
5.9 (0.23) |
16.1 (0.63) |
37.5 (1.48) |
64.3 (2.53) |
104.8 (4.13) |
84.6 (3.33) |
61.8 (2.43) |
22.1 (0.87) |
8.3 (0.33) |
1.5 (0.06) |
411.2 (16.19) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 8.1 | 12.1 | 13.4 | 11.8 | 9.6 | 5.6 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 77.3 |
| Average snowy days | 2.4 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 17.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 49 | 45 | 43 | 43 | 48 | 59 | 72 | 76 | 72 | 62 | 56 | 52 | 56 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 189.8 | 189.8 | 234.7 | 242.6 | 265.0 | 230.1 | 211.0 | 211.7 | 205.9 | 210.3 | 187.4 | 185.3 | 2,563.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 63 | 62 | 63 | 61 | 59 | 52 | 47 | 50 | 56 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 59 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||