What's the climate like in Shanxi? What is the dry temperature difference?

Shanxi has a temperate continental monsoon climate. Summer is hot and rainy, and winter is cold and dry. Shanxi is located inland on the east coast of the mid-latitude mainland. Although the east is only 300~500 kilometers away from the coast, the climate is weakly influenced by the ocean because of the mountains in the east of the province.

Winter is long, cold and dry, summer is hot and rainy, spring climate is changeable, and there are more sandstorms; Autumn is short and the temperature difference is large. The temperature difference is large, from south to north, from Pingchuan to mountainous area, the temperature drops.

The annual average temperature in the whole province is between 4- 14℃. The average annual temperature in the northern and central mountainous areas is generally between 5-7℃. The annual average temperature in the Yellow River Basin in the west, Taiyuan Basin and most parts of southeastern Shanxi is 8- 10℃, and the annual average temperature in Linfen and Yuncheng Basin reaches 12- 14℃. In winter, the temperature in the whole province is below 0℃. The temperature in the whole province is high in summer, and it is between 19-28℃ in July.

topography

Shanxi Province is located in the east wing of the Loess Plateau in the west of North China. The landform as a whole is a mountainous plateau covered by loess, and the overall outline is slightly parallelogram from northeast to southwest. The landform types are complex and diverse, including mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80% and plateaus, basins and platforms account for 20%.

Most areas are above 1000 meters above sea level, showing strong uplift compared with the eastern North China Plain. The highest point is Wutai Mountain Yetou Peak in the northeast, with an altitude of 3058 meters, which is the highest peak in North China. The lowest point is the place where the Xiyang River flows into the Yellow River in the southeast of Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, with an altitude of only 180 meters. The terrain in this area fluctuates.