Autonomous county in Qinghai, China
Datong County
大通县 གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
大通回族土族自治县 རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། · دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا · Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County Looking west over Datong town from Mt Laoye
Location of the county (red) in Xining City (yellow) and Qinghai
Location of Datong
Country China Province Qinghai Prefecture-level city Xining Seat Qiaotou Town • Total
3,090 km2 (1,190 sq mi) Elevation
2,442 m (8,012 ft) • Total
403,368 • Density 130/km2 (340/sq mi) Time zone UTC+8 (China Standard )
Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County , Datong County , or Serkhog County (simplified Chinese : 大通回族土族自治县 ; traditional Chinese : 大通回族土族自治縣 ; pinyin : Dàtōng Huízú Tǔzú Zìzhìxiàn ; Tibetan : རྟ་ཐང་ཧུའེ་རིགས་ཧོར་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང ; or more frequently Tibetan : གསེར་ཁོག་རྫོང ; Monguor : Daatun Hui szarbaten Mongghul szarbaten njeenaa daglagu xan ; Xiao'erjing : دَاتْو خُوِذُو تُوذُو ذِجِشِیًا ) is an autonomous county of Hui and Tu peoples in Qinghai Province , China . It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining , the capital of Qinghai.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5]
"Mount Laoye" as seen from Datong
Since 2009, a folk music "Flower Festival" has been held annually in late July on "Mount Laoye" (2928 m) in Datong town.[ 6]
Subdivisions
Datong County is divided into 9 towns , 9 townships , and 2 ethnic townships :
Qiaotou Town (桥头镇 )
Chengguan Town (城关镇 )
Tar Town (塔尔镇 )
Huangjiazhai Town (黄家寨镇 )
Changning Town (长宁镇 )
Jingyang Town (景阳镇 )
Duolin Town (多林镇 )
Xinzhuang Town (新庄镇 )
Qinglin Township (青林乡 )
Xunrang Township (逊让乡 )
Jile Township (极乐乡 )
Shishan Township (石山乡 )
Baoku Township (宝库乡 )
Xiegou Township (斜沟乡 )
Liangjiao Township (良教乡 )
Hualin Township (桦林乡 )
Xangba Tibetan Ethnic Township (向化藏族乡 , ཞང་དཔའ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་། )
Shobê Tibetan Ethnic Township (朔北藏族乡 , ཧྲོ་པེ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་། )
Climate
Climate data for Datong, elevation 2,450 m (8,040 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
0.9 (33.6)
4.8 (40.6)
9.7 (49.5)
15.2 (59.4)
18.7 (65.7)
21.4 (70.5)
23.4 (74.1)
22.5 (72.5)
18.2 (64.8)
13.1 (55.6)
7.4 (45.3)
2.2 (36.0)
13.1 (55.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−8.4 (16.9)
−4.1 (24.6)
1.5 (34.7)
7.2 (45.0)
11.2 (52.2)
14.2 (57.6)
16.2 (61.2)
15.3 (59.5)
11.2 (52.2)
5.6 (42.1)
−1.0 (30.2)
−6.9 (19.6)
5.2 (41.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−15.7 (3.7)
−11.3 (11.7)
−4.9 (23.2)
0.3 (32.5)
4.4 (39.9)
7.8 (46.0)
10.1 (50.2)
9.8 (49.6)
6.3 (43.3)
0.4 (32.7)
−6.9 (19.6)
−13.8 (7.2)
−1.1 (30.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
2.1 (0.08)
2.1 (0.08)
14.5 (0.57)
33.1 (1.30)
66.1 (2.60)
86.1 (3.39)
99.4 (3.91)
115.1 (4.53)
82.8 (3.26)
28.5 (1.12)
5 (0.2)
1.4 (0.06)
536.2 (21.1)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
3.7
4.2
6.5
8.2
13.0
16.5
17.1
17.4
16.5
9.1
3.5
3.1
118.8
Average snowy days
5.8
6.9
9.4
5.9
1.1
0
0
0
0
3.0
5.3
5.1
42.5
Average relative humidity (%)
51
47
48
50
56
64
69
72
74
67
60
55
59
Mean monthly sunshine hours
200.9
200.2
227.4
230.9
237.1
218.6
221.9
211.1
175.8
196.1
204.1
197.9
2,522
Percent possible sunshine
65
65
61
58
54
50
50
51
48
57
68
66
58
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 7] [ 8]
Transportation
See also
References
37°05′38″N 101°27′32″E / 37.0939°N 101.459°E / 37.0939; 101.459