# Dêrong County

Dêrong County (Tibetan: སྡེ་རོང་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 得荣县) is a county in the southwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the east, south, and west. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## Administrative divisions

Dêrong County is divided into 4 towns and 6 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Waka Town | 瓦卡镇 | Wǎkǎ Zhèn | ཝ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | wa kha grong rdal | 513338101 |
| Bünsum Town (Baisong) | 白松镇 | Báisōng Zhèn | སྤུན་གསུམ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spun gsum grong rdal | 513338102 |
| Siyü Town (Riyu) | 日雨镇 | Rìyǔ Zhèn | གཟི་ཡུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gzi yul grong rdal | 513338103 |
| Nyimailungba Town (Taiyanggu) | 太阳谷镇 | Tàiyánggǔ Zhèn | ཉི་མའི་ལུང་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nyi ma'i lung pa grong rdal | 513338104 |
| Townships ||||||
| Yulung Township (Xulong) | 徐龙乡 | Xúlóng Xiāng | གཡུ་ལུང་ཤང་། | g.yu lung shang | 513338201 |
| Bündo Township (Bendu) | 奔都乡 | Bēndū Xiāng | པུ་མདོ་ཤང་། | pu mdo shang | 513338204 |
| Bündo Township (Bari) | 八日乡 | Bārì Xiāng | ཕག་རི་ཤང་། | phag ri shang | 513338205 |
| Gêxoi Township (Guxue) | 古学乡 | Gǔxué Xiāng | སྐེད་ཤོད་ཤང་། | sked shod shang | 513338206 |
| Gongpo Township (Gangbo, Gongbo) | 贡波乡 | Gòngbō Xiāng | སྒོང་ཕོ་ཤང་། | sgong pho shang | 513338208 |
| Ciu Township (Ciwu) | 茨巫乡 | Cíwū Xiāng | ཚེའུ་ཤང་། | tshe'u shang | 513338210 |

## Climate

Climate data for Dêrong, elevation 2,423 m (7,949 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) | 25.1 (77.2) | 25.9 (78.6) | 29.2 (84.6) | 31.8 (89.2) | 34.2 (93.6) | 36.3 (97.3) | 36.0 (96.8) | 33.6 (92.5) | 33.5 (92.3) | 30.1 (86.2) | 27.1 (80.8) | 22.8 (73.0) | 36.3 (97.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.1 (59.2) | 17.4 (63.3) | 19.9 (67.8) | 23.1 (73.6) | 26.9 (80.4) | 30.1 (86.2) | 28.5 (83.3) | 27.3 (81.1) | 26.9 (80.4) | 24.1 (75.4) | 19.6 (67.3) | 15.8 (60.4) | 22.9 (73.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.1 (43.0) | 8.9 (48.0) | 12.0 (53.6) | 15.5 (59.9) | 19.6 (67.3) | 23.0 (73.4) | 21.7 (71.1) | 20.4 (68.7) | 19.8 (67.6) | 16.1 (61.0) | 10.5 (50.9) | 6.4 (43.5) | 15.0 (59.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) | 2.0 (35.6) | 5.6 (42.1) | 9.2 (48.6) | 13.5 (56.3) | 17.4 (63.3) | 17.1 (62.8) | 16.0 (60.8) | 14.8 (58.6) | 10.0 (50.0) | 4.0 (39.2) | −0.1 (31.8) | 9.1 (48.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −8.9 (16.0) | −5.2 (22.6) | −1.0 (30.2) | 2.1 (35.8) | 3.6 (38.5) | 10.2 (50.4) | 6.6 (43.9) | 11.4 (52.5) | 7.6 (45.7) | 2.1 (35.8) | −1.9 (28.6) | −7.7 (18.1) | −8.9 (16.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.3 (0.05) | 1.5 (0.06) | 4.4 (0.17) | 6.8 (0.27) | 18.6 (0.73) | 39.1 (1.54) | 126.8 (4.99) | 111.1 (4.37) | 35.3 (1.39) | 9.1 (0.36) | 3.3 (0.13) | 0.4 (0.02) | 357.7 (14.08) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.0 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 5.4 | 9.3 | 18.7 | 17.9 | 9.2 | 3.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 74.5 |
| Average snowy days | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 34 | 33 | 35 | 38 | 40 | 45 | 61 | 67 | 58 | 47 | 40 | 35 | 44 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 174.1 | 163.2 | 178.3 | 169.0 | 174.0 | 154.1 | 121.7 | 118.8 | 125.8 | 163.0 | 170.3 | 175.5 | 1,887.8 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 53 | 51 | 48 | 44 | 41 | 37 | 29 | 29 | 34 | 46 | 53 | 55 | 43 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||