Night temperature in Lop Nur

The average temperature at night in Lop Nur is 4 ~ 22℃.

Lop Nur is located in Taklimakan Desert in the south of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with an area of about 20,000 square kilometers, starting from Kuqa River in the west, reaching Ruoqiang River in the north and Heishankou in the southeast. Before 330 AD, there were many lakes, and Loulan City in the northwest was the throat of the famous Silk Road. Later, due to the influence of climate change and human water conservancy projects, the upstream water supply decreased until it dried up.

The climate in Lop Nur is unusually dry and hot, with an annual average temperature of 1 1.6℃, the highest temperature in summer > 40℃ and the lowest temperature in winter -20℃. Annual precipitation is 20 mm, evaporation is more than 3000 mm, annual sunshine hours are more than 3200 hours, and annual accumulated temperature is more than 4500℃. Moreover, the wind erosion is strong, and the prevailing wind direction is NE all the year round, which often causes sandstorm weather.

The scenic spots near Lop Nur are as follows:

Ya Dan Longcheng 1

One of the three Ya Dan groups in Lop Nur area is located on the north bank of Lop Nur. Terraces are all east-west and grow into terraces, which look like Youlong from a distance, so they are called Longcheng. Longcheng Ya Dan, also known as Bailongdui Ya Dan, was selected as the second of the three most beautiful Ya Dan in China by chinese national geography, and it is known as "the most mysterious Ya Dan" because few people have seen its true face.

2. Picture sound

A logistics station site in Han Dynasty discovered and named by Chinese archaeologists has few relics, but it was a military site on the Silk Road in ancient times.

3. Sun Tomb

Located on the north bank of the ancient Peacock River. It was discovered by archaeologists Hou Can and Wang Binghua in the winter of 1979. There are dozens of ancient tombs, each of which is the tomb of the dead, with a circular stake in the middle and seven circles around the stake more than one foot high, forming several rays in the form of solar rays. According to the determination of carbon 14, the Sun Tomb has a history of 3800 years.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lop Nur