Naqu Outlook

Nagqu is affected by monsoon climate, plate geology movements, and complex terrain and other disaster-causing factors, it is a natural disaster-prone, contiguous and frequent region. The annual average temperature is −2.1 °C (28.2 °F), while the coldest temperatures can reach minus −40 °C (−40 °F). Overall it classifies as a subarctic climate bordering on a cold semi-arid climate, with relatively warm, humid summers and long, bitterly cold, dry, windy winters. The differences between day and night are severe. It is not uncommon to have nights with temperatures below freezing after days with temperatures of 25 °C (77 °F) or days with temperatures above freezing in winter after night temperatures of −25 °C (−13 °F). The annual sunshine hours are more than 2,886 hours. Nagqu city had an average annual rainfall of 477.1 mm (18.78 in) between 1956 and 2010.