What's the climate like in Xishuangbanna

Xishuangbanna belongs to the tropical rainforest climate, with no heat in summer, no cold in winter and warm and pleasant seasons.

Tropical rain forest climate is also called "equatorial rainy climate". Mainly distributed between latitudes 10 on both sides of the equator (near the equator). It is hot and rainy all year round, with an average monthly temperature of 25-28℃ and an annual precipitation of over 2000 mm, with even seasonal distribution and no dry season.

Xishuangbanna is located in the northern edge of the tropical zone, and Ailao Mountain and Wuliang Mountain are the barriers to stop the cold current from going south. Summer is influenced by the southwest monsoon of the Indian Ocean and the southeast airflow of the Pacific Ocean. It is hot and rainy, with distinct wet and dry seasons and no obvious four seasons. Plenty of sunshine and precipitation. In the dry season, the light is strong, the clouds are less and the rain is less; In the rainy season, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, there are many clouds and rains, and there is little sunshine.

geologic structure

Xishuangbanna is divided by Lancang River Fault, which spans Tanggula-Changdu-Lanping-Simao and Gongshan-Tengchong fold systems. The former is Banpo anticlinorium and Dehua syncline, and the latter is located at the southeast end of Lincang-Menghai fold system.

Banpo anticlinorium is dominated by Mesozoic flysch formation-like, intermediate-acidic and intermediate-basic volcanic formations, accompanied by molasses formations, with red formations exposed sporadically and Cenozoic molasses formations unconformity.

Dehua syncline and Mesozoic red strata are widely distributed, some of which are molasse strata, carbonate strata and coal-bearing clastic rocks. The Proterozoic Lancang Group and Damenglong metamorphic rocks are exposed at the southeast end of Lincang-Menghai fold, and the granite basement of Menghai in Variscan-Indosinian period occupies a large space.