# Hualong Hui Autonomous County

Hualong Hui Autonomous County (simplified Chinese: 化隆回族自治县; traditional Chinese: 化隆回族自治縣; pinyin: Huàlóng Huízú Zìzhìxiàn; Xiao'erjing: خُوَلْو خُوِذُو ذِجِشِیًا‎) is a county in the east of Qinghai Province, China. It is under the administration of Haidong City. Its area is 2,790 square kilometers and has a population of 203,317 in 2010.

## Administrative divisions

Huzhu is divided into 6 towns, 7 townships, and 4 ethnic townships.
* Bayan Town (巴燕镇, བཱ་ཡན་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Qunke Town (群科镇, ཚའཱི་མགུར་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Yashiga Town (牙什尕镇, ཡར་ག་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Gandu Town (甘都镇, ཀ་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Zhaba Town (扎巴镇, རྩ་བ་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Angsiduo Town (昂思多镇, ནང་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ།)
* Chuma Township (初麻乡, ཆུ་དམར་ཞང་།)
* Ertang Township (二塘乡, ཨེར་ཐང་ཞང་།)
* Xiejiatan Township (谢家滩乡)
* Dehenglong Township (德恒隆乡, སྟག་ལུང་ཞང་།)
* Shalianbao Township (沙连堡乡, ས་ལེན་པུའུ་ཞང་།)
* Ashennu Township (阿什奴乡, ཨ་སྔོན་ཞང་།)
* Shidacang Township (石大仓乡, སྟག་ཚང་ཞང་།)
* Shongshen Tibetan Ethnic Township (雄先藏族乡, གཤོང་ཤན་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
* Tsaphug Tibetan Ethnic Township (查甫藏族乡, ཚ་ཕུག་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
* Thagya Tibetan Ethnic Township (塔加藏族乡, ཐ་རྒྱ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
* Serzhong Tibetan Ethnic Township (金源藏族乡, གསེར་གཞོང་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)

## Climate

Climate data for Hualong, elevation 2,835 m (9,301 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) | 12.4 (54.3) | 16.6 (61.9) | 22.1 (71.8) | 28.0 (82.4) | 26.4 (79.5) | 27.7 (81.9) | 32.5 (90.5) | 29.3 (84.7) | 25.1 (77.2) | 19.8 (67.6) | 15.7 (60.3) | 12.5 (54.5) | 32.5 (90.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −1.0 (30.2) | 2.1 (35.8) | 6.7 (44.1) | 12.2 (54.0) | 15.5 (59.9) | 18.5 (65.3) | 20.6 (69.1) | 19.8 (67.6) | 15.4 (59.7) | 10.4 (50.7) | 5.4 (41.7) | 0.6 (33.1) | 10.5 (50.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.5 (14.9) | −6.3 (20.7) | −1.1 (30.0) | 4.6 (40.3) | 8.8 (47.8) | 12.3 (54.1) | 14.3 (57.7) | 13.3 (55.9) | 9.2 (48.6) | 3.5 (38.3) | −2.7 (27.1) | −7.8 (18.0) | 3.2 (37.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.5 (4.1) | −12.5 (9.5) | −6.9 (19.6) | −1.6 (29.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | 6.7 (44.1) | 8.8 (47.8) | 8.1 (46.6) | 4.7 (40.5) | −1.1 (30.0) | −8.0 (17.6) | −13.7 (7.3) | −2.3 (27.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.8 (−16.2) | −24.4 (−11.9) | −20.6 (−5.1) | −12.1 (10.2) | −10.6 (12.9) | −0.7 (30.7) | 0.4 (32.7) | 0.1 (32.2) | −3.6 (25.5) | −12.9 (8.8) | −20.7 (−5.3) | −27.0 (−16.6) | −27.0 (−16.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.6 (0.10) | 4.1 (0.16) | 11.2 (0.44) | 23.4 (0.92) | 60.0 (2.36) | 73.4 (2.89) | 91.9 (3.62) | 98.4 (3.87) | 68.8 (2.71) | 28.1 (1.11) | 5.3 (0.21) | 1.6 (0.06) | 468.8 (18.45) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 4.1 | 5.4 | 7.3 | 8.6 | 13.6 | 16.8 | 16.6 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 9.2 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 119.3 |
| Average snowy days | 5.6 | 7.6 | 9.6 | 8.2 | 3.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 6.1 | 5.4 | 4.2 | 51.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 48 | 49 | 51 | 52 | 58 | 64 | 69 | 73 | 76 | 70 | 56 | 48 | 60 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 215.0 | 202.5 | 220.8 | 226.0 | 224.3 | 210.1 | 220.3 | 212.7 | 171.1 | 197.9 | 216.5 | 221.1 | 2,538.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 69 | 65 | 59 | 57 | 51 | 48 | 50 | 51 | 47 | 58 | 71 | 74 | 58 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||