Tibet Group Tours in Winter

Many tourists on one hand dream to take Tibet group tours in winter, on the other hand, they fear to do this. In order to taste the origin, the native Tibet, the best choice is to avoid the peak season and travel to Tibet in winter.

Tibet Group Tours in Winter – Comfortable Temperature

Travel to Tibet in winter, you will appreciate the unique enthusiastic of Tibet. The summer of Tibet is Charming while the winter of Tibet is fascinating. It is neither too cold nor too hot in most areas of Tibet, which are suitable for traveling in the whole year. It is absolutely not as cold as some people imagine in Tibet. In the daytime, the sunlight shines brightly and the temperature reaches more than 10 degrees Celsius. If you stand under the sun, you will feel hot even if you just wear sweaters. It is much warmer than Wuhan and Nanchang in central areas of China. Many brave explorers go to Tibet in winter to challenge and to see the real Tibet. In winter, tourists can enjoy the elegance, magnificence and mysterious peace in the warm sunlight freely.

Reasons for Comfortable Temperature in Winter

Why it is not too cold in Tibet in winter? There are mainly two reasons.

1. Strong Sunlight and Long Sunshine Time
Tibet is the place where the solar radiation is the strongest. In Lhasa , the annual solar radiation reaches 195 kilocalorie per square centimeter. It is twice as much as in Chengdu, which is of the same latitude, and 1.7 times of that in Shanghai. Annual sunshine duration is 3005 hours, 2.4 times as in Chengdu, 1.5 times as that in Shanghai. Lhasa is called “sun city”. The main reason is that the atmosphere is thin and clean, contains less water vapor. There is not much heat loss when sunlight shines through the atmosphere. So the temperature rises fast after the sunrise.

2. Surrounded by High Mountains and of High Altitude

From north to south, Kunlun Mountain, Tangula Mountain, Nyenchen Tanglha, Gangdisê Mountains, Himalaya Mountains lie through Tibet. In winter, the cold air is obstructed by the northern mountains.