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″N114°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,elevation 939 m (3,081 ft),(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) | −11.0 (12.2) | −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 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 63 | 62 | 63 | 61 | 59 | 52 | 47 | 50 | 56 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 59 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration [2] [3] | |||||||||||||
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