Yangyuan County 阳原县 | |
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 Aerial view of Sanggan River Valley in Yangyuan | |
 Location in Zhangjiakou | |
  Yangyuan Location of the seat in Hebei | |
| Coordinates:40°07′N114°10′E / 40.117°N 114.167°E /40.117; 114.167 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Prefecture-level city | Zhangjiakou |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Yangyuan County | |||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 阳原县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 陽原縣 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | SunnyPlainCounty Yang Plain County | ||||||||
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Yangyuan County is acounty inZhangjiakou Prefecture,Hebei Province, China.
Yangyuan is bounded byHuai'an County to the north,Xuanhua County to the east,Yu County to the south, and byDatong municipality inShanxi Province to the north and west.
| Climate data for Yangyuan, elevation 938 m (3,077 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.4 (48.9) | 17.8 (64.0) | 25.8 (78.4) | 35.5 (95.9) | 35.0 (95.0) | 39.4 (102.9) | 40.6 (105.1) | 36.2 (97.2) | 35.4 (95.7) | 27.7 (81.9) | 21.9 (71.4) | 14.9 (58.8) | 40.6 (105.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.4 (27.7) | 2.7 (36.9) | 10.1 (50.2) | 18.4 (65.1) | 24.7 (76.5) | 28.7 (83.7) | 30.0 (86.0) | 28.3 (82.9) | 23.5 (74.3) | 16.1 (61.0) | 6.7 (44.1) | −0.9 (30.4) | 15.5 (59.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.6 (14.7) | −4.9 (23.2) | 2.6 (36.7) | 10.9 (51.6) | 17.6 (63.7) | 21.9 (71.4) | 23.7 (74.7) | 22.0 (71.6) | 16.4 (61.5) | 8.8 (47.8) | −0.2 (31.6) | −7.4 (18.7) | 8.5 (47.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.3 (4.5) | −11.0 (12.2) | −4.2 (24.4) | 3.5 (38.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 15.2 (59.4) | 18.0 (64.4) | 16.3 (61.3) | 10.1 (50.2) | 2.7 (36.9) | −5.5 (22.1) | −12.5 (9.5) | 2.3 (36.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −29.9 (−21.8) | −25.9 (−14.6) | −22.4 (−8.3) | −10.9 (12.4) | −3.5 (25.7) | 5.7 (42.3) | 10.8 (51.4) | 8.5 (47.3) | −0.3 (31.5) | −7.3 (18.9) | −20.6 (−5.1) | −29.0 (−20.2) | −29.9 (−21.8) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 2.3 (0.09) | 3.3 (0.13) | 8.4 (0.33) | 18.6 (0.73) | 38.0 (1.50) | 50.2 (1.98) | 94.2 (3.71) | 75.5 (2.97) | 50.6 (1.99) | 22.3 (0.88) | 8.9 (0.35) | 1.8 (0.07) | 374.1 (14.73) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 7.5 | 10.6 | 13.0 | 11.3 | 8.8 | 5.9 | 3.3 | 1.9 | 76.2 |
| Average snowy days | 3.0 | 3.8 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 17.5 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 48 | 41 | 37 | 36 | 39 | 50 | 62 | 65 | 61 | 54 | 51 | 48 | 49 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 199.9 | 202.6 | 244.6 | 260.9 | 281.5 | 263.4 | 257.4 | 257.6 | 235.2 | 230.0 | 197.6 | 192.9 | 2,823.6 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 66 | 67 | 66 | 65 | 63 | 59 | 57 | 61 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 67 | 64 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[1][2] | |||||||||||||
Under theHan, Yangyuan County was part ofDai Commandery.
Yangyuan runs 5towns (zhen, 镇) and 9townships (xiang, 乡). The county executive, legislature andjudiciary are inXicheng Town, together with theCPC andPSB branches.
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