# Gyantse County

Gyantse County officially Gyangzê County (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རྩེ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 江孜县) is a county of Xigazê in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Its main settlement is Gyantse Town known for its monasteries.

## Administration divisions

Gyantse County is divided into 1 town and 18 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Town |||||
| Gyangzê Town (Gyantse) | 江孜镇 | Jiāngzī zhèn | རྒྱལ་རྩེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rgyal rtse grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Naröl Township | 纳如乡 | Nàrú xiāng | ན་རོལ་ཤང་། | na rol shang |
| Karmai Township | 卡麦乡 | Kǎmài xiāng | མཁར་སྨད་ཤང་། | mkhar smad shang |
| Kardoi Township | 卡堆乡 | Kǎduī xiāng | མཁར་སྟོད་ཤང་། | mkhar stod shang |
| Tsangkha Township | 藏改乡 | Zànggǎi xiāng | གཙང་ཁ་ཤང་། | gtsang kha shang |
| Rinang Township | 日朗乡 | Rìlǎng xiāng | རི་ནང་ཤང་། | ri nang shang |
| Dagzê Township | 达孜乡 | Dázī xiāng | སྟག་རྩེ་ཤང་། | stag rtse shang |
| Rasog Township | 热索乡 | Rèsuǒ xiāng | ར་སོག་ཤང་། | ra sog shang |
| Drongtsé Township | 重孜乡 | Chóngzī xiāng | འབྲོང་རྩེ་ཤང་། | 'brong rtse shang |
| Lungmar Township | 龙马乡 | Lóngmǎ xiāng | ལུང་དམར་ཤང་། | lung dmar shang |
| Jaggyê Township | 加克西乡 | Jiākèxī xiāng | ལྕགས་སྒྱེ་ཤང་། | lcangs skye shang |
| Tsechen Township | 紫金乡 | Zǐjīn xiāng | རྩེ་ཆེན་ཤང་། | rtse chen shang |
| Jangra Township | 江热乡 | Jiāngrè xiāng | ལྕང་ར་ཤང་། | lcang ra shang |
| Nyangdoi Township | 年堆乡 | Niánduī xiāng | མྱང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | myang stod shang |
| Kangco Township | 康卓乡 | Kāngzhuó xiāng | གངས་མཚོ་ཤང་། | gangs mtsho shang |
| Gyinkar Township | 金嘎乡 | Jīngā xiāng | དཀྱིལ་མཁར་ཤང་། | dkyil mkhar shang |
| Rizhing Township | 日星乡 | Rìxīng xiāng | རི་ཞིང་ཤང་། | ri zhing shang |
| Charing Township | 车仁乡 | Chērén xiāng | ཁྲ་རིང་ཤང་། | khra ring shang |
| Ralung Township | 热龙乡 | Rèlóng xiāng | ར་ལུང་ཤང་། | ra lung shang |

## Climate

Climate data for Gyantse, elevation 4,040 m (13,250 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) | 17.0 (62.6) | 17.3 (63.1) | 22.1 (71.8) | 23.2 (73.8) | 25.9 (78.6) | 28.7 (83.7) | 28.2 (82.8) | 25.4 (77.7) | 24.6 (76.3) | 21.9 (71.4) | 18.9 (66.0) | 16.1 (61.0) | 28.7 (83.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.7 (51.3) | 13.9 (57.0) | 17.7 (63.9) | 21.1 (70.0) | 20.5 (68.9) | 19.7 (67.5) | 18.9 (66.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 10.6 (51.1) | 7.3 (45.1) | 14.1 (57.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.8 (25.2) | −1.1 (30.0) | 2.6 (36.7) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.6 (49.3) | 13.2 (55.8) | 13.0 (55.4) | 12.1 (53.8) | 10.8 (51.4) | 6.6 (43.9) | 0.8 (33.4) | −2.9 (26.8) | 5.6 (42.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.1 (8.4) | −10.1 (13.8) | −5.8 (21.6) | −1.9 (28.6) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.1 (43.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 6.6 (43.9) | 4.2 (39.6) | −1.1 (30.0) | −7.6 (18.3) | −11.4 (11.5) | −2.0 (28.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −23.9 (−11.0) | −20.4 (−4.7) | −16.2 (2.8) | −12.6 (9.3) | −7.6 (18.3) | −2.3 (27.9) | 0.2 (32.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | −3.6 (25.5) | −11.6 (11.1) | −14.0 (6.8) | −21.4 (−6.5) | −23.9 (−11.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 0.3 (0.01) | 0.5 (0.02) | 1.7 (0.07) | 7.7 (0.30) | 16.9 (0.67) | 37.7 (1.48) | 89.3 (3.52) | 89.2 (3.51) | 34.7 (1.37) | 3.5 (0.14) | 0.5 (0.02) | 1.8 (0.07) | 283.8 (11.18) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.2 | 4.0 | 6.6 | 10.9 | 18.8 | 18.5 | 10.7 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 74.6 |
| Average snowy days | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 16.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 30 | 30 | 33 | 40 | 46 | 54 | 67 | 70 | 62 | 45 | 38 | 38 | 46 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 272.2 | 251.5 | 276.2 | 273.1 | 295.9 | 273.4 | 224.6 | 224.6 | 244.3 | 294.0 | 283.6 | 280.9 | 3,194.3 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 83 | 79 | 74 | 70 | 70 | 66 | 53 | 56 | 67 | 84 | 89 | 88 | 73 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||