Shigatse Tour - Shigatse Climate, Weather

Plenty of sunshine shines in Shigatse with a moderate climate surrounding, which you can feel the mean annual temperature is about 6.3 ? only. Every moment is a proper time to enjoy the sceneries here. For example, in winter, you come into a white holy land and may feel brisk air here.

However, you should notice that you may not very lucky enough to overview the Mt. Everest in July and August when this region turns into the rainy season.

Shigatse Tour - Shigatse Climate

Shigatse tour is usually renowned for Mt. Everest scenery in different seasons. So it is better for tourists to know the rough climate or weather in Shigatse. The north of Mt. Himalaya and the south of Mt. Tanggula feature the semi-arid monsoon climate of variable zone of high plateau. The north of Mt. Tanggula is belong to plateau subfrigid zone semi-arid monsoon climate. The south of Himalaya Mountain is belong to monsoon semi-humid climate of plateau variable zone.

Shigatse Tour - Shigatse Climate Feature, Weather

The features of Shigatse climate, or Shigatse weather are listed as below:

a. Thin air, low air pressure and less oxygen.

b. Strong solar radiation and long-time sunshine duration, besides the intense ultraviolet in plateau.

c. Lower temperature in a whole year. The number of daily range of temperature is larger than annual range of temperature in Tibet. The mean annual temperature is about 0 ? in Subfrigid zone area, 6.5 ? in variable zone area.

d. The dry season usually appreas from October to April next year featuring dry air but strong wind, lower temperature and lesser sleet. From May to September when rainy season comes, the climate becomes gentle and the air turns humid. During the rainy season lots of thunderstorm hail appears in the midnight.

e. The frost-free season lastes 120 days or more. The snow usually appears in Nylamu of Shigatse.