# Xinghai County

Xinghai County (Chinese: 兴海县; Tibetan: བྲག་དཀར་རྫོང་།) is a county under the jurisdiction of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in the east-central part of Qinghai Province, China.
Xinghai has an area of 13,158 km$^2$ (5,080 sq mi), and a 2001 population of 60,000.

## Administrative divisions

Xinghai is made up of 3 towns, and 4 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Zigortang Town (Ziketan) | 子科滩镇 | Zǐkētān Zhèn | རྩི་གོར་ཐང་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | rtsi gor thang grong brdal | 632524100 |
| Hoika Town (Heka) | 河卡镇 | Hékǎ Zhèn | ཧོལ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hol kha grong rdal | 632524101 |
| Qu'ngoin Town (Qushi'an) | 曲什安镇 | Qǔshí'ān Zhèn | ཆུ་སྔོན་གྲོང་བརྡལ། | chu sngon grong brdal | 632524102 |
| Townships ||||||
| Qukoi Township (Tsigorthang, Wenquan) | 温泉乡 | Wēnquán Xiāng | ཆུ་ཁོལ་ཞང་། | chu khol zhang | 632524200 |
| Lungsang Township (Longzang, Longcang) | 龙藏乡 | Lóngzàng Xiāng | ལུང་བཟང་ཞང་། | lung bzang zhang | 632524201 |
| Zhongtü Township (Zhongtie) | 中铁乡 | Zhōngtiě Xiāng | འབྲོང་མཐུལ་ཞང་། | 'brong mthul zhang | 632524202 |
| Tangnag Township (Tangnaihai) | 唐乃亥乡 | Tángnǎihài Xiāng | ཐང་ནག་ཞང་། | thang nag zhang | 632524203 |

## Climate

Climate data for Xinghai, elevation 3,323 m (10,902 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) | 12.9 (55.2) | 15.0 (59.0) | 20.1 (68.2) | 25.5 (77.9) | 24.9 (76.8) | 25.7 (78.3) | 30.2 (86.4) | 29.9 (85.8) | 26.9 (80.4) | 19.6 (67.3) | 13.8 (56.8) | 12.8 (55.0) | 30.2 (86.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) | 2.9 (37.2) | 7.0 (44.6) | 11.7 (53.1) | 14.6 (58.3) | 16.8 (62.2) | 19.2 (66.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 15.5 (59.9) | 10.3 (50.5) | 5.3 (41.5) | 0.7 (33.3) | 10.2 (50.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.9 (12.4) | −7.0 (19.4) | −2.0 (28.4) | 3.7 (38.7) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.0 (55.4) | 12.4 (54.3) | 8.4 (47.1) | 2.0 (35.6) | −4.8 (23.4) | −10.0 (14.0) | 1.9 (35.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.4 (−2.9) | −15.5 (4.1) | −10.0 (14.0) | −4.2 (24.4) | 0.6 (33.1) | 4.7 (40.5) | 6.9 (44.4) | 6.2 (43.2) | 2.6 (36.7) | −4.4 (24.1) | −12.4 (9.7) | −18.3 (−0.9) | −5.3 (22.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −31.5 (−24.7) | −30.9 (−23.6) | −24.1 (−11.4) | −18.1 (−0.6) | −9.8 (14.4) | −5.7 (21.7) | −1.9 (28.6) | −3.8 (25.2) | −7.5 (18.5) | −15.1 (4.8) | −26.6 (−15.9) | −28.7 (−19.7) | −31.5 (−24.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.5 (0.06) | 2.2 (0.09) | 5.8 (0.23) | 15.0 (0.59) | 48.2 (1.90) | 77.0 (3.03) | 92.3 (3.63) | 77.6 (3.06) | 54.3 (2.14) | 14.7 (0.58) | 1.6 (0.06) | 1.0 (0.04) | 391.2 (15.41) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.0 | 2.1 | 4.1 | 5.7 | 12.8 | 17.7 | 17.9 | 16.3 | 13.7 | 6.6 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 101.1 |
| Average snowy days | 3.1 | 3.4 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 5.4 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 33.3 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 38 | 35 | 36 | 41 | 54 | 65 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 58 | 42 | 37 | 51 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 229.6 | 211.0 | 235.9 | 239.6 | 227.7 | 197.8 | 209.4 | 216.6 | 188.8 | 227.4 | 239.9 | 237.4 | 2,661.1 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 73 | 68 | 63 | 61 | 52 | 46 | 48 | 53 | 51 | 66 | 79 | 79 | 62 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||