The climate of Yunnan

Yunnan's climate basically belongs to subtropical plateau monsoon type, with obvious three-dimensional climate characteristics, many types, small annual temperature difference, large daily temperature difference, distinct wet and dry seasons, and abnormal vertical temperature change with terrain height.

Northwest Yunnan has a cold climate, long winter without summer and short spring and autumn. The eastern and central parts of Yunnan belong to temperate climate, with four seasons such as spring and winter when it rains; The south and southwest of Yunnan belong to the low-heat valley area, and some of them enter the tropical area south of the Tropic of Cancer, with long summer without winter and rainy to autumn.

The hottest month (July) of the average temperature in Yunnan Province is between 1 9℃ and 22℃, and the most Leng Yue (1month) is above 6℃ and 8℃, and the annual temperature difference is generally only 10℃~ 12℃.

Extended data:

Yunnan is located in the southwest border of China, with an east longitude of 97 31',a north latitude of1061'and a north latitude of 218'. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the south of the province, with low terrain.

The maximum horizontal distance from east to west in the province is 864.9 kilometers, and the maximum vertical distance from north to south is 990 kilometers. The province's total land area is 394,654,38+0,000 square kilometers, bordering Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the east, Sichuan Province in the north, Xizang Autonomous Region in the northwest, Myanmar in the west and Laos and Viet Nam in the south. There are 25 border counties in Yunnan bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam respectively.

The seasonal and regional distribution of precipitation in the whole province is extremely uneven. The wet and dry seasons are distinct. May to 10 is the wet season (rainy season), which concentrates 85% of the rainfall. During the dry season (dry season) 1 1 until April of the following year, the precipitation only accounts for 15% of the whole year.

The terrain of the whole province is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and it drops step by step from north to south. From north to south, the average elevation drops by 6 meters per kilometer.

Yunnan is the province with the largest number of ethnic minorities in China. In addition to the Han nationality, there are 25 ethnic minorities in the world with a population of over 6,000. Among them, 15 ethnic groups are endemic to Yunnan, and their population accounts for more than 80% of the total population of this ethnic group in China.

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