Geography and Climate
Tangshan is located in the central section of the circum-Bohai Sea region, facing the Bohai Sea to the south. Lying on the North China Plain, Tangshan is adjacent to the Yan Mountains to the north, borders the Luan River and Qinhuangdao to the east, and to the west adjoins with Beijing and Tianjin. Because of its location in the northeast of Hebei, it is a strategic area and a corridor linking two large regions of China: North China and Northeast China. The largest river in the prefecture is the Luan River.
Tangshan has a monsoon-influenced, humid continental climate (Köppen Dwa), with cold and very dry winters, and hot, rainy summers. Spring and autumn are short with some rainfall. The monthly 24-hour average temperature in January is −5.1 °C (22.8 °F), and 25.7 °C (78.3 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 11.5 °C (52.7 °F). Close to 60% of the annual precipitation of 610 millimetres (24.0 in) falls in July and August alone. The frost-free period lasts 180–190 days, and the area receives 2,600–2,900 hours of sunshine annually.
| Climate data for Tangshan (1971−2000) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 0.9 (33.6) |
4.1 (39.4) |
10.7 (51.3) |
19.6 (67.3) |
25.2 (77.4) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.2 (86.4) |
29.4 (84.9) |
25.9 (78.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
9.8 (49.6) |
3.0 (37.4) |
17.3 (63.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −10.2 (13.6) |
−7 (19) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
7.1 (44.8) |
13.0 (55.4) |
18.2 (64.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
20.5 (68.9) |
14.6 (58.3) |
7.5 (45.5) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−7 (19) |
6.4 (43.5) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 4.3 (0.169) |
4.4 (0.173) |
9.6 (0.378) |
21.3 (0.839) |
42.7 (1.681) |
86.6 (3.409) |
192.8 (7.591) |
162.5 (6.398) |
48.2 (1.898) |
23.5 (0.925) |
9.9 (0.39) |
4.5 (0.177) |
610.3 (24.028) |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.4 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 6.6 | 9.0 | 12.9 | 10.7 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 68.2 |
| Source: Weather China | |||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Tangshan
Famous quotes containing the words geography and, geography and/or climate:
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.”
—Derek Wall (b. 1965)
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)