The Best Tourism Season in Xinjiang

The best season for tourism in Xinjiang is autumn.

The peak season for tourism in Xinjiang is autumn and summer, so there are the most people. If you go to Kanas and Tianchi in these two months, there will be a sea of people. Moreover, Xinjiang is most beautiful after mid-September in autumn, and then travel to Xinjiang after mid-September. At this time, there are not many people, but the scenery is the most beautiful, and Turpan will not be as hot as 48 degrees in summer.

In Xinjiang, different seasons have different scenery. From March to April, Xinjiang is the world of flowers, and the apricot flowers in Turpan are the first to enter the spring, followed by the apricot flowers in Yili, which are scattered on the prairie in early spring like oil paintings.

In the glorious autumn, after several autumn rains, the leaves of Betula platyphylla forest in northern Xinjiang fell, and the trunk stood in the wind, revealing a sad and beautiful oil painting effect.

Looking at the eternal Populus euphratica forest in the desert, the blue sky, golden leaves and twisted trunks in various ways show its perseverance and magnificence in the desert. At the beginning of October, Populus euphratica forest in northern Xinjiang, Populus euphratica forest in Luntai, Yuli and Zepu Jinhu poplar in Kashgar 5A scenic spot are all waiting for you to appreciate its vicissitudes and its glory.

Climate characteristics of Xinjiang:

Xinjiang is far away from the ocean, living in the inland, surrounded by high mountains, and the ocean airflow is difficult to reach, forming an obvious temperate continental climate. The temperature difference is large, the sunshine time is sufficient, the precipitation is small and the climate is dry.

The average annual precipitation in Xinjiang is about 15 mm, but the precipitation varies greatly from place to place. The temperature in southern Xinjiang is higher than that in northern Xinjiang, and the precipitation in northern Xinjiang is higher than that in southern Xinjiang. In Leng Yue, the average temperature is below minus 2℃ in Junggar Basin, and the absolute minimum temperature in Fuyun County on the northern edge of the basin has reached minus 5.15℃, which is one of the coldest areas in China.

In the hottest month, the average temperature in Turpan, known as Huozhou, was above 33℃, and the absolute maximum temperature reached 49.6℃, ranking first in China. Due to the great temperature difference between spring and summer and autumn and winter in most parts of Xinjiang, it has always been said that people wear fur coats early and wear yarn at noon and eat watermelons around the stove.