# Maqên County

Maqên or Maqin County is a county of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Name

The county is named for Anyê Maqên, the Tibetan name for a revered local mountain.

## Administrative divisions

Maqên is divided into two towns and six townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Dawo Town (Dawu) | 大武镇 | Dàwǔ Zhèn | རྟ་བོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rta bo grong brdal | 632621100 |
| Ra'gya Town (Lajia) | 拉加镇 | Lājiā Zhèn | རྭ་རྒྱ་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rwa rgya grong brdal | 632621101 |
| Townships ||||||
| Dawo Township (Dawu) | 大武乡 | Dàwǔ Xiāng | རྟ་བོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rta bo yul tsho | 632621200 |
| Domkog Township (Dongqinggou) | 东倾沟乡 | Dōngqīnggōu Xiāng | སྡོམ་ཁོག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | sdom khog yul tsho | 632621201 |
| Kangri Township (Xueshan) | 雪山乡 | Xuěshān Xiāng | གངས་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gangs ri yul tsho | 632621202 |
| Damai Township (Xiadawu) | 下大武乡 | Xiàdàwǔ Xiāng | རྟ་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rta smad yul tsho | 632621203 |
| Yigxung Township (Youyun) | 优云乡 | Yōuyún Xiāng | དབྱིག་གཞུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dbyig gzhung yul tsho | 632621204 |
| Tanglag Township (Dangluo) | 当洛乡 | Dāngluò Xiāng | དྭངས་ལག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dwangs lag yul tsho | 632621205 |

## Climate

Maqên County has a subalpine climate (Köppen Dwc) bordering on an alpine climate (ETH).
Climate data for Maqên County, elevation 3,719 m (12,201 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.3 (31.5) | 2.1 (35.8) | 5.6 (42.1) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.8 (55.0) | 15.0 (59.0) | 17.4 (63.3) | 17.5 (63.5) | 14.6 (58.3) | 9.3 (48.7) | 4.5 (40.1) | 0.8 (33.4) | 9.1 (48.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −11.3 (11.7) | −8.0 (17.6) | −3.5 (25.7) | 1.4 (34.5) | 5.2 (41.4) | 8.5 (47.3) | 10.6 (51.1) | 10.1 (50.2) | 6.9 (44.4) | 1.2 (34.2) | −5.5 (22.1) | −10.4 (13.3) | 0.4 (32.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −20.5 (−4.9) | −16.8 (1.8) | −11.1 (12.0) | −5.7 (21.7) | −1.0 (30.2) | 3.2 (37.8) | 5.0 (41.0) | 4.3 (39.7) | 1.6 (34.9) | −4.2 (24.4) | −12.7 (9.1) | −19.2 (−2.6) | −6.4 (20.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −33.1 (−27.6) | −31.9 (−25.4) | −29.1 (−20.4) | −20.0 (−4.0) | −12.8 (9.0) | −6.0 (21.2) | −4.0 (24.8) | −5.5 (22.1) | −7.5 (18.5) | −17.8 (0.0) | −26.6 (−15.9) | −33.1 (−27.6) | −33.1 (−27.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.2 (0.13) | 4.6 (0.18) | 9.1 (0.36) | 20.5 (0.81) | 62.0 (2.44) | 98.9 (3.89) | 118.2 (4.65) | 100 (3.9) | 77.9 (3.07) | 30.8 (1.21) | 4.4 (0.17) | 1.4 (0.06) | 531 (20.87) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.1 | 5.5 | 8.2 | 10.7 | 17.4 | 20.2 | 20.2 | 18.4 | 18.0 | 13.3 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 142 |
| Average snowy days | 6.9 | 8.8 | 12.1 | 13.9 | 11.8 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 13.1 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 84.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 51 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 63 | 69 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 66 | 57 | 50 | 61 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 219.7 | 202.6 | 232.2 | 234.4 | 217.5 | 180.6 | 197.4 | 205.5 | 179.6 | 210.8 | 233.5 | 227.4 | 2,541.2 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 70 | 65 | 62 | 60 | 50 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 49 | 61 | 76 | 75 | 59 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||