What are the sunshine hours throughout the year in Gong’an County, Hubei Province?

Gongan County in Hubei Province has long sunshine hours throughout the year. The specific lighting time varies depending on the weather each year.

The climate in Gongan is a subtropical monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. It has the characteristics of short frost period, long sunshine and abundant rainfall. Spring is changeable, with rapid temperature rise and increasing rainfall; summer is hot and humid, with uneven rainfall; autumn has warm days and cool nights, with a sharp drop in rainfall; winter is cold and dry, with low temperatures and little rainfall. It is rich in calories, has a long frost-free period, and has less frequency of low-temperature freezing damage. It is suitable for the growth of grain, cotton, oil, forest, special crops and other crops. It has water resources to develop subtropical fruit trees, specialty products and other economic economies. Usually, the start of spring is when the average temperature stably passes 10℃, the start of summer is when the average temperature is above 22℃, the start of winter is when the average temperature is below 10℃, and the spring and autumn are between 10-22℃.

Gongan County is located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, in the south of the Jianghan Plain, and is affiliated to Jingzhou City. It is located on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, connecting Han and Shanghai to the east, Bashu to the west, Hunan and Guangdong to the south, and Shaanxi and Henan to the north. Known as the "Seven Provinces Channel", it is connected to the Dongting Lake Plain by a strip of water and connected to the ancient city of Jingzhou by a bridge. The famous writer Bi Ye once gave him the reputation of "Silver Police".

Gongan County governs 16 towns and villages, with a land area of ??2,258 square kilometers and a population of 1.07 million. It is a key grain, cotton, and oil production base in the country and is well-known throughout the country as a land of fish and rice.