Emeishan 峨眉山市 | |
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.png) Location of Emeishan City (red) in Leshan City (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Emeishan Location of the city centre in Sichuan | |
| Coordinates:29°36′04″N103°28′55″E / 29.601°N 103.482°E /29.601; 103.482 | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Prefecture-level city | Leshan |
| Municipal seat | Suishan |
| Area | |
| 1,151.4 km2 (444.6 sq mi) | |
| Highest elevation | 3,099 m (10,167 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| 419,107 | |
| • Density | 364.00/km2 (942.75/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 252,682 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time) |
| Emeishan | |||||||||
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| Chinese | 峨眉山 | ||||||||
| Postal | Omei | ||||||||
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Emeishan (Chinese:峨眉山市;pinyin:Éméishān Shì) is acounty-level city inSichuanprovince, China. It is administered by theprefecture-level cityLeshan. Its population in 2020 stood at 419,107.[1] It is named afterMount Emei, a famous mountain located within its administration.
Emeishan comprises 2 subdistricts, 10 towns and 1 township:[2]
| Climate data for Emeishan City, elevation 424 m (1,391 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.9 (69.6) | 23.4 (74.1) | 31.3 (88.3) | 33.4 (92.1) | 35.9 (96.6) | 36.1 (97.0) | 37.8 (100.0) | 41.4 (106.5) | 36.5 (97.7) | 29.4 (84.9) | 25.2 (77.4) | 19.5 (67.1) | 41.4 (106.5) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.9 (49.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 17.8 (64.0) | 23.4 (74.1) | 27.0 (80.6) | 29.1 (84.4) | 31.2 (88.2) | 30.9 (87.6) | 26.4 (79.5) | 21.2 (70.2) | 16.7 (62.1) | 11.3 (52.3) | 21.5 (70.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.1 (44.8) | 9.6 (49.3) | 13.7 (56.7) | 18.6 (65.5) | 22.2 (72.0) | 24.6 (76.3) | 26.6 (79.9) | 26.2 (79.2) | 22.5 (72.5) | 18.1 (64.6) | 13.7 (56.7) | 8.6 (47.5) | 17.6 (63.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 5.2 (41.4) | 7.2 (45.0) | 10.7 (51.3) | 15.0 (59.0) | 18.6 (65.5) | 21.3 (70.3) | 23.2 (73.8) | 22.9 (73.2) | 20.0 (68.0) | 16.0 (60.8) | 11.7 (53.1) | 6.8 (44.2) | 14.9 (58.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) | −0.3 (31.5) | 0.2 (32.4) | 6.2 (43.2) | 10.3 (50.5) | 15.1 (59.2) | 18.2 (64.8) | 16.6 (61.9) | 13.6 (56.5) | 5.0 (41.0) | 2.6 (36.7) | −2.0 (28.4) | −2.0 (28.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 15.7 (0.62) | 23.1 (0.91) | 42.1 (1.66) | 90.9 (3.58) | 122.7 (4.83) | 151.6 (5.97) | 320.4 (12.61) | 352.2 (13.87) | 156.3 (6.15) | 64.8 (2.55) | 34.1 (1.34) | 16.4 (0.65) | 1,390.3 (54.74) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 10.9 | 11.5 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.7 | 16.6 | 17.8 | 17.6 | 11.6 | 10.2 | 176.6 |
| Average snowy days | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1.1 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 80 | 77 | 73 | 71 | 69 | 74 | 77 | 78 | 80 | 82 | 80 | 81 | 77 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 31.9 | 40.3 | 68.7 | 95.6 | 104.8 | 93.7 | 118.5 | 127.8 | 56.4 | 33.7 | 39.8 | 29.7 | 840.9 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 10 | 13 | 18 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 18 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[3][4] all-time extreme temperature[5] all-time January high[6] | |||||||||||||
