What's the climate like in Hotan, Xinjiang? What is the lowest temperature in winter? Will it freeze at MINUS tens of degrees like Urumqi?

The temperature in Hotan County, Xinjiang is quite poor, and the highest temperature in Leng Yue in winter is around -9 degrees. Freezing is for sure.

Hotan area belongs to extremely arid desert climate in warm temperate zone. Its main characteristics are: hot summer and cold winter, distinct seasons, abundant heat, large temperature difference between day and night and annual variation, long frost-free period, scarce precipitation, strong evaporation, dry air and obvious vertical distribution of climatic zones. In Kunlun area, the annual average temperature drops by 0.5 ~ 0.7 degrees Celsius for every 100 meter temperature increase. The temperature changes greatly, the sunshine time is long (the annual sunshine time is 2500-3500 hours), the precipitation is less, the air is dry, and the annual average precipitation is about150 mm.

Generally speaking, the winter temperature in northern Xinjiang is higher than that in southern Xinjiang, and the summer temperature in southern Xinjiang is higher than that in northern Xinjiang. Due to the large temperature difference between day and night at the turn of spring and summer and at the turn of autumn and winter in most parts of Xinjiang, there has always been a saying that "wear leather clothes early, wear gauze at noon and eat watermelon around the stove".

There are many sandstorms and floating dust weather in spring and summer. The annual heavy pollution caused by floating dust weather reaches 306 days, and the monthly dust fall per square kilometer is as high as 6 19.08 tons.