# Chindu County

Chindu County (Tibetan: ཁྲི་འདུ་རྫོང་།) or Chenduo County (Chinese: 称多县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, bordering Sichuan to the east. It is under the administration of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Administrative divisions

Chindu is divided to 5 towns and 2 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Chiwang Town (Chengwen) | 称文镇 | Chēngwén Zhèn | ཁྲི་དབང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | khri dbang grong brdal | 632723100 |
| Xêwu Town (Xiewu) | 歇武镇 | Xiēwǔ Zhèn | བཞི་དབུས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bzhi dbus grong rdal | 632723101 |
| Zadoi Town (Zhaduo) | 扎朵镇 | Zhāduǒ Zhèn | རྫ་སྟོད་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rdza stod grong brdal | 632723102 |
| Domda Town (Qingshuihe) | 清水河镇 | Qīngshuǐhé Zhèn | སྡོམ་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sdom mda' grong rdal | 632723103 |
| Chainqên Town (Zhenqin) | 珍秦镇 | Zhēnqín Zhèn | དྲན་ཆེན་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | dran chen grong brdal | 632723104 |
| Townships ||||||
| Gadoi Township (Gaduo) | 尕朵乡 | Gǎduǒ Xiāng | སྒ་སྟོད་ཞང་། | sga stod zhang | 632723200 |
| Lab Township (Labu) | 拉布乡 | Lābù Xiāng | ལབ་ཞང་། | lab zhang | 632723201 |

## Climate

Chindu County has an alpine climate (Köppen climate classification ETH). The average annual temperature in Chindu is −4.3 °C (24.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 519.8 mm (20.46 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 7.0 °C (44.6 °F), and lowest in January, at around −16.6 °C (2.1 °F).
Climate data for Qingshuihe Town, Chindu County, elevation 4,415 m (14,485 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) | 7.3 (45.1) | 12.2 (54.0) | 16.2 (61.2) | 19.3 (66.7) | 20.3 (68.5) | 22.5 (72.5) | 20.8 (69.4) | 19.2 (66.6) | 16.8 (62.2) | 8.9 (48.0) | 6.5 (43.7) | 22.5 (72.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −5.8 (21.6) | −3.2 (26.2) | 0.5 (32.9) | 4.8 (40.6) | 8.6 (47.5) | 11.7 (53.1) | 14.1 (57.4) | 13.9 (57.0) | 11.1 (52.0) | 4.8 (40.6) | −0.6 (30.9) | −4.2 (24.4) | 4.6 (40.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −16.3 (2.7) | −13.1 (8.4) | −8.6 (16.5) | −3.0 (26.6) | 1.3 (34.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | 7.4 (45.3) | 6.7 (44.1) | 3.6 (38.5) | −3.0 (26.6) | −10.5 (13.1) | −15.3 (4.5) | −3.8 (25.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −25.4 (−13.7) | −22.1 (−7.8) | −16.8 (1.8) | −9.5 (14.9) | −4.3 (24.3) | 0.1 (32.2) | 1.9 (35.4) | 1.1 (34.0) | −1.3 (29.7) | −8.3 (17.1) | −18.0 (−0.4) | −24.3 (−11.7) | −10.6 (13.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −41.2 (−42.2) | −38.8 (−37.8) | −36.6 (−33.9) | −24.3 (−11.7) | −15.6 (3.9) | −10.3 (13.5) | −6.6 (20.1) | −10.9 (12.4) | −14.7 (5.5) | −29.5 (−21.1) | −35.8 (−32.4) | −41.9 (−43.4) | −41.9 (−43.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8.3 (0.33) | 8.6 (0.34) | 14.2 (0.56) | 23.9 (0.94) | 57.9 (2.28) | 100.9 (3.97) | 102.2 (4.02) | 92.3 (3.63) | 76.3 (3.00) | 34.2 (1.35) | 6.2 (0.24) | 3.3 (0.13) | 528.3 (20.79) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.0 | 8.2 | 11.8 | 13.9 | 19.5 | 22.7 | 20.3 | 18.9 | 20.5 | 14.7 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 167.5 |
| Average snowy days | 9.1 | 10.1 | 14.9 | 16.4 | 20.8 | 11.4 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 12.5 | 17.1 | 7.6 | 6.1 | 133.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 58 | 56 | 57 | 61 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 76 | 72 | 63 | 56 | 66 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 205.6 | 188.7 | 221.3 | 232.9 | 225.4 | 185.2 | 210.6 | 203.8 | 180.7 | 211.7 | 224.5 | 221.4 | 2,511.8 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 60 | 59 | 59 | 52 | 43 | 48 | 50 | 49 | 61 | 73 | 72 | 58 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||