Menyuan Hui Autonomous County
Menyuan Hui Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 门源回族自治县; traditional Chinese: 門源回族自治縣; pinyin: Ményuán Huízú Zìzhìxiàn, Xiao'erjing: مٍیُوًا خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا; Standard Tibetan: སེམས་ཉིད་ཧུའེ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཞན།) is a county in the northeast of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Gansu Province to the north. It is under the administration of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Menyuan is situated on the Datong River between the Qilian Mountains and Daban Mountains. Gangshiqia Peak rises dramatically in the north of the county. It used to be called Menyuan (亹源) in Chinese, with a different first character from the current name.
Menyuan County
门源县 مٍیُوًا | |
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.png.webp) Location of Menyuan County (red) within Haibei Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Qinghai |
| Autonomous prefecture | Haibei |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Climate
| Climate data for Menyuan (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | −2.1 (28.2) |
1.7 (35.1) |
5.9 (42.6) |
11.0 (51.8) |
15.0 (59.0) |
18.0 (64.4) |
20.0 (68.0) |
19.5 (67.1) |
15.7 (60.3) |
10.3 (50.5) |
4.3 (39.7) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
9.9 (49.8) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −20.4 (−4.7) |
−16.1 (3.0) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−3.5 (25.7) |
0.9 (33.6) |
4.2 (39.6) |
6.1 (43.0) |
5.2 (41.4) |
2.4 (36.3) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−12.1 (10.2) |
−18.5 (−1.3) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.0 (0.08) |
4.4 (0.17) |
18.0 (0.71) |
32.4 (1.28) |
70.2 (2.76) |
86.0 (3.39) |
99.9 (3.93) |
105.4 (4.15) |
79.9 (3.15) |
27.0 (1.06) |
4.3 (0.17) |
1.8 (0.07) |
531.3 (20.92) |
| Source: National Meteorological Center of CMA[1] | |||||||||||||
Transportation
- Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway (Menyuan railway station)
- China National Highway 227
References
- 1981年-2010年（门源）月平均气温和降水 (in Simplified Chinese). National Meteorological Center of CMA. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
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