# Xiangcheng County, Sichuan

Xiangcheng County or Qagchêng (Chinese: 乡城县; Tibetan: ཕྱག་ཕྲེང་རྫོང་།) is a county in the west of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the south. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Administrative divisions

Xiangcheng County is divided into 3 towns and 7 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Shambala Town (Xambala, Xiangbala) | 香巴拉镇 | Xiāngbālā Zhèn | ཤམ་བྷ་ལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sham bha la grong rdal | 513336100 |
| Chêngdoi Town (Qingde) | 青德镇 | Qīngdé Zhèn | ཕྲེང་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phreng stod grong rdal | 513336101 |
| Radag Town (Reda) | 热打镇 | Rèdǎ Zhèn | རྭ་རྟགས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rwa rtags grong rdal | 513336103 |
| Townships ||||||
| Sakong Township (Shagong) | 沙贡乡 | Shāgòng Xiāng | ས་གོང་ཤང་། | sa gong shang | 513336201 |
| Siwa Township (Shuiwa) | 水洼乡 | Shuǐwā Xiāng | བསིལ་བ་ཤང་། | bsil ba shang | 513336202 |
| Ragwa Township (Ranwu) | 然乌乡 | Ránwū Xiāng | རག་ཝ་ཤང་། | rag wa shang | 513336205 |
| Dongsum Township (Dongsong) | 洞松乡 | Dòngsōng Xiāng | གདོང་གསུམ་ཤང་། | gdong gsum shang | 513336206 |
| Dêmo Township (Dingbo) | 定波乡 | Dìngbō Xiāng | བདེ་མོ་ཤང་། | bde mo shang | 513336208 |
| Zhodog Township (Zhengdou) | 正斗乡 | Zhèngdǒu Xiāng | སྒྲོ་མདོག་ཤང་། | sgro mdog shang | 513336209 |
| Bayü Township (Baiyi) | 白依乡 | Báiyī Xiāng | དཔའ་ཡུལ་ཤང་། | dpa' yul shang | 513336210 |

## Climate

Climate data for Xiangcheng, elevation 2,844 m (9,331 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) | 22.0 (71.6) | 22.7 (72.9) | 27.4 (81.3) | 29.7 (85.5) | 30.5 (86.9) | 32.5 (90.5) | 34.4 (93.9) | 31.8 (89.2) | 31.0 (87.8) | 27.3 (81.1) | 23.5 (74.3) | 20.6 (69.1) | 34.4 (93.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 16.6 (61.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 23.1 (73.6) | 25.8 (78.4) | 24.5 (76.1) | 23.8 (74.8) | 22.9 (73.2) | 20.4 (68.7) | 16.6 (61.9) | 13.3 (55.9) | 19.4 (66.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) | 5.1 (41.2) | 8.1 (46.6) | 11.5 (52.7) | 15.6 (60.1) | 18.6 (65.5) | 17.7 (63.9) | 16.9 (62.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 11.8 (53.2) | 6.7 (44.1) | 3.0 (37.4) | 11.1 (52.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) | −3.0 (26.6) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.2 (39.6) | 8.4 (47.1) | 12.3 (54.1) | 13.1 (55.6) | 12.5 (54.5) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.0 (41.0) | −1.0 (30.2) | −4.8 (23.4) | 4.4 (39.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.4 (6.1) | −11.3 (11.7) | −6.3 (20.7) | −3.5 (25.7) | −1.0 (30.2) | 3.6 (38.5) | 5.1 (41.2) | 5.6 (42.1) | 1.9 (35.4) | −3.5 (25.7) | −8.3 (17.1) | −13.3 (8.1) | −14.4 (6.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.6 (0.06) | 1.4 (0.06) | 5.9 (0.23) | 11.0 (0.43) | 26.5 (1.04) | 73.8 (2.91) | 159.9 (6.30) | 130.4 (5.13) | 69.2 (2.72) | 15.3 (0.60) | 2.6 (0.10) | 0.5 (0.02) | 498.1 (19.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.3 | 1.6 | 4.0 | 7.2 | 9.1 | 14.7 | 22.3 | 21.1 | 14.0 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 102.9 |
| Average snowy days | 2.4 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 10.1 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 34 | 39 | 44 | 47 | 56 | 70 | 73 | 69 | 56 | 43 | 36 | 50 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 200.5 | 184.3 | 202.2 | 196.7 | 203.5 | 176.3 | 140.7 | 145.2 | 140.3 | 176.2 | 189.5 | 204.7 | 2,160.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 61 | 58 | 54 | 51 | 48 | 42 | 33 | 36 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 64 | 50 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Terrain maps

* NH 47-11 (Taocheng)
* NH 47-15 (Tejung)