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Qinghai Climate

Qinghai has a continental climate. The greater part of it is dry and cold and with long winters, short summers, frequent winds, little rainfall, long hours of sunshine and great differences in temperature between day and night. It has a mean annual temperature of 0 to 8 degrees Celsius -- the hottest month, July, averaging 20 degrees Celsius and the coldest month, January, below -8 degrees Celsius -- and a mean annual precipitation generally below 300 mm.