County in Qinghai, China
Darlag County (Tibetan : དར་ལག་རྫོང ; Chinese : 达日县 ) is a county of southeastern Qinghai province, China, bordering Sichuan to the south and west. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture . The county seat is in the Town of Gyümai .
Geography and Climate
With an elevation of around 3,970 metres (13,020 ft), Darlag County has an alpine climate (Köppen ET ), bordering on a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc ), with long, very cold winters, and short, rainy, cool summers. Average low temperatures are below freezing from mid September to late May; however, due to the wide diurnal temperature variation , average highs are only below freezing from mid/late November thru early March. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 47% in June to 70% in November, the county seat receives 2,467 hours of bright sunshine annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −12.0 °C (10.4 °F) in January to 9.8 °C (49.6 °F) in July, while the annual mean is −0.53 °C (31.0 °F). Over 70% of the annual precipitation of 558 mm (22.0 in) is delivered from June to September.
Climate data for Darlag County, elevation 3,968 m (13,018 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2016)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
11.9 (53.4)
10.4 (50.7)
14.7 (58.5)
18.3 (64.9)
21.6 (70.9)
21.9 (71.4)
24.3 (75.7)
24.4 (75.9)
23.3 (73.9)
20.9 (69.6)
10.6 (51.1)
10.1 (50.2)
24.4 (75.9)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
−2.4 (27.7)
0.1 (32.2)
3.4 (38.1)
7.7 (45.9)
11.3 (52.3)
14.1 (57.4)
16.6 (61.9)
16.5 (61.7)
13.6 (56.5)
7.7 (45.9)
2.6 (36.7)
−1.2 (29.8)
7.5 (45.5)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−11.8 (10.8)
−8.4 (16.9)
−4.2 (24.4)
0.7 (33.3)
4.5 (40.1)
8.0 (46.4)
10.1 (50.2)
9.5 (49.1)
6.5 (43.7)
0.6 (33.1)
−5.9 (21.4)
−10.9 (12.4)
−0.1 (31.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−19.5 (−3.1)
−15.8 (3.6)
−10.4 (13.3)
−4.9 (23.2)
−0.7 (30.7)
3.3 (37.9)
5.0 (41.0)
4.2 (39.6)
1.7 (35.1)
−4.1 (24.6)
−12.2 (10.0)
−18.5 (−1.3)
−6.0 (21.2)
Record low °C (°F)
−35.6 (−32.1)
−30.3 (−22.5)
−26.4 (−15.5)
−16.1 (3.0)
−10.8 (12.6)
−4.8 (23.4)
−3.4 (25.9)
−5.2 (22.6)
−7.8 (18.0)
−17.8 (0.0)
−25.5 (−13.9)
−34.0 (−29.2)
−35.6 (−32.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
6.8 (0.27)
8.3 (0.33)
16.3 (0.64)
28.8 (1.13)
66.7 (2.63)
112.6 (4.43)
113.0 (4.45)
96.3 (3.79)
80.5 (3.17)
34.2 (1.35)
5.8 (0.23)
3.4 (0.13)
572.7 (22.55)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
7.0
7.8
12.0
14.1
19.3
21.6
20.4
18.1
19.4
14.9
5.3
4.3
164.2
Average snowy days
8.8
10.3
14.8
16.2
15.6
3.7
0.8
0.8
4.9
14.6
7.1
6.2
103.8
Average relative humidity (%)
50
49
52
56
63
69
70
70
72
67
55
49
60
Mean monthly sunshine hours
192.3
178.9
209.8
225.5
214.0
186.5
216.3
216.1
189.1
198.8
208.1
203.5
2,438.9
Percent possible sunshine
61
57
56
57
49
43
50
53
52
57
68
66
56
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] all-time extreme temperature[ 5]
Administrative divisions
Darlag is divided into 1 town and 9 townships:
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Town
Gyümai Town (Jimai)
吉迈镇
Jímài Zhèn
རྒྱུ་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ།
rgyu smad grong rdal
632624100
Townships
Marzhing Township (Manzhang)
满掌乡
Mǎnzhǎng Xiāng
སྨར་འབྲིང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
smar 'bring yul tsho
632624200
Dêrnang Township (De'ang)
德昂乡
Dé'áng Xiāng
སྡེར་ནང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
sder nang yul tsho
632624201
Oisêr Township (Wosai)
窝赛乡
Wōsài Xiāng
འོད་ཟེར་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
'od zer yul tsho
632624202
Boiba Township (Moba)
莫坝乡
Mòbà Xiāng
འབོ་པ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
'bo pa yul tsho
632624203
Boingor Doima Township (Shanghongke)
上红科乡
Shànghóngkē Xiāng
དཔོན་སྒོར་སྟོད་མ་ཞང་།
dpon sgor stod ma zhang
632624204
Boingor Mangma Township (Xiahongke)
下红科乡
Xiàhóngkē Xiāng
དཔོན་སྐོར་སྨང་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
dpon sgor smang ma yul tsho
632624205
Zugzhün Township (Jianshe)
建设乡
Jiànshè Xiāng
འཛུགས་སྐྲུན་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
'dzugs skrun yul tsho
632624206
Sangrima Township (Sangrima, Sangruma)
桑日麻乡
Sāngrìmá Xiāng
གསང་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
gsang ri ma yul tsho
632624207
Dagtog Township (Tehetu)
特合土乡
Tèhétǔ Xiāng
སྟག་ཐོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
stag thog yul tsho
632624208
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