Trashigang  | |
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 Main street, Trashigang, Bhutan | |
  Trashigang Location in Bhutan | |
| Coordinates:27°19′57.2″N91°33′09.9″E / 27.332556°N 91.552750°E /27.332556; 91.552750 | |
| Country |  Bhutan |
| District | Trashigang District |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 3,037 |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (BTT) |
Trashigang (Dzongkha:བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྒང་།), orTashigang, meaning "fortress of auspicious mount,"[1] is a town in easternBhutan and the district capital of theTrashigang Dzongkhag (district).
The town lies to the east side of the valley above theDrangme Chhu river just south of where it is joined by the Gamri River. Trashigang is the eastern terminus of theLateral Road, Bhutan's main highway leading toPhuntsholing in the southwest.
Trashigang Dzong was built in 1659 byTrongsa Penlop Minjur Tenpa and served for centuries as an administrative headquarters and monastery, though government offices mostly relocated by 2011. Its sinking eastern foundation and crumbling upper walls necessitated either relocation or total destruction and reconstruction. In October 2011,dzong, under renovation since 2007, was on the verge of collapse.[2] However, as of 2012[update], the Trashigang Dzong was still used for the town's yearly religious festival calledtsechu.[3]
Trashigang is the largest district in Bhutan and serves as the administrative seat for the Dzongkhag and a home for the monk body.[1] It has three sub-districts and fifteen gewogs, which include Bartsham, Bidung, Kanglung, Kangpara, Khaling, Lumang, Merak, Phongmey, Radhi, Sakteng, Samkhar, Shongphu, Thrimshing, Udzorong, and Yangneer.[1]Sherubtse College was the first accredited college in Bhutan, founded in 1966 by a group of Jesuits under the leadership of William Mackey. As of 2003, it became part of the newly created Royal University of Bhutan system that comprises all public post-secondary schools in Bhutan.
Rangjung, Kanglung and Wamrong are some of the major towns under Trashigang district.
The population of Trashigang town was 3,037 (1,565 males and 1,472 females) according to the 2017 Population and Housing Census of Bhutan.[4]
Trashigang is served byYonphula Airport which is around an hour drive from the town.[5] It is connected by Simtokha Trashigang Primary National highway to capital city. Thimphu and Trashigang Samdrup Jongkhar Highway to Samdrup Jongkhar, border town in south eastern Bhutan.
Trashigang features a dry-wintersubtropical highland climate (KöppenCwb).
| Climate data for Kanglung, Trashigang District, elevation 1,930 m (6,330 ft), (1996–2017 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 24.0 (75.2) | 25.5 (77.9) | 29.0 (84.2) | 30.0 (86.0) | 31.0 (87.8) | 32.5 (90.5) | 33.0 (91.4) | 32.0 (89.6) | 31.5 (88.7) | 31.0 (87.8) | 27.0 (80.6) | 24.5 (76.1) | 33.0 (91.4) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 15.1 (59.2) | 17.2 (63.0) | 20.4 (68.7) | 22.6 (72.7) | 24.2 (75.6) | 25.3 (77.5) | 25.5 (77.9) | 25.8 (78.4) | 25.2 (77.4) | 23.3 (73.9) | 19.8 (67.6) | 16.8 (62.2) | 21.8 (71.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 9.2 (48.6) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.0 (57.2) | 16.6 (61.9) | 18.8 (65.8) | 20.6 (69.1) | 21.1 (70.0) | 21.2 (70.2) | 20.3 (68.5) | 17.4 (63.3) | 13.7 (56.7) | 10.8 (51.4) | 16.2 (61.2) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.2 (37.8) | 4.8 (40.6) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.6 (51.1) | 13.3 (55.9) | 15.9 (60.6) | 16.6 (61.9) | 16.5 (61.7) | 15.3 (59.5) | 11.5 (52.7) | 7.5 (45.5) | 4.7 (40.5) | 10.6 (51.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) | −1.0 (30.2) | 1.0 (33.8) | 3.0 (37.4) | 8.0 (46.4) | 11.5 (52.7) | 14.0 (57.2) | 13.5 (56.3) | 11.0 (51.8) | 4.0 (39.2) | 2.0 (35.6) | 0.0 (32.0) | −2.5 (27.5) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 9.5 (0.37) | 20.8 (0.82) | 49.4 (1.94) | 109.6 (4.31) | 119.2 (4.69) | 194.5 (7.66) | 247.2 (9.73) | 208.3 (8.20) | 123.2 (4.85) | 77.5 (3.05) | 4.1 (0.16) | 4.4 (0.17) | 1,167.7 (45.95) |
| Average rainy days | 1.6 | 3.1 | 7.4 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 15.7 | 22.1 | 20.6 | 12.0 | 5.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 113.3 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 66.7 | 66.8 | 67.9 | 72.5 | 77.0 | 83.5 | 85.8 | 85.3 | 83.5 | 75.6 | 70.9 | 69.3 | 75.4 |
| Source 1: National Center for Hydrology and Meteorology[6] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: World Meteorological Organization (rainy days 1996–2018)[7] | |||||||||||||
Trashigang travel guide from Wikivoyage