Why is Lhasa the Sun City? What is the altitude of Lhasa?

Lhasa is an international tourist city with plateau and ethnic characteristics. It has sunny weather all year round, little rainfall, no severe cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer, and a pleasant climate. The annual sunshine time is more than 3,000 hours, and it is known as the "Sunshine City". Lhasa is rich in various resources, but do you know how high the altitude of Lhasa is?

Contents of this article

1. Why is Lhasa the Sun City?

2. What is the altitude of Lhasa?

3. Customs and People in Lhasa

Why is Lhasa the Sun City?

Because Lhasa has long sunshine hours. The average sunshine time in Lhasa is as long as 3005.3 hours per year, which is equivalent to an average of 8 hours and 15 minutes of sunshine per day, which is basically half more than the eastern region at the same latitude. Moreover, the air in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is relatively thin and clean, and the energy loss of sunlight through the atmosphere is also reduced. It is the region with the most solar radiation in the country.

The sea wave height in Lhasa is 3658 meters. The atmosphere is thin and the air density is low. In addition, the atmospheric transparency is very good, so the amount of sunlight that passes through the atmosphere to reach Lhasa is relatively small and is absorbed and scattered. It is precisely because of the thin atmosphere that the blue-black or dark blue sky can better set off the dazzling sunlight.

In fact, Lhasa has quite a bit of rainfall. Its annual rainfall is more than that of southern Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, northern Hebei, Jilin, and western Liaoning in the eastern region. Since more than 80% of the time it rains in Lhasa is between 8 pm and 8 am the next day, the sun is still shining the next day.

If you travel to Lhasa, you will not get wet even in the rainy season, but you need to be careful when going out in the evening, as night rain is a characteristic of Lhasa's climate. The rainy season in Lhasa is usually from mid-to-late September to early October, and the rainy season usually ends earlier.

What is the altitude of Lhasa?

Lhasa, referred to as "La", is the capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region and an international tourist city with plateau and ethnic characteristics. The political, economic, cultural and religious center of Tibet, and also a holy place of Tibetan Buddhism, Lhasa is located in the middle of the Tibetan Plateau and the north side of the Himalayas, at an altitude of 3,650 meters (to prevent endogenous hypoxia), located in the middle valley plain of the Lhasa River, a tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River. The Lhasa River flows through here and flows into the Yarlung Zangbo River in the southern suburbs. Lhasa has sunny weather all year round, with little rainfall, no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, and a pleasant climate. The annual sunshine time is more than 3,000 hours, and it is known as the "Sunshine City". Lhasa is rich in various resources. Compared with other cities in the country and the autonomous region, it has obvious resource advantages and is one of the first national historical and cultural cities.

The customs and practices of Lhasa

Tibetan New Year is the most important festival in Tibet. Tibetan New Year is the day to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On New Year's Eve, people hold a ghost-exorcism ceremony and the whole family eats New Year noodles that symbolize perfection. On the morning of New Year's Day, people toast each other with barley wine, offer each other "Chema", and wish each other good luck and happiness in the new year, "Tashi Delek". The celebration of Tibetan New Year lasts from the first day to around the tenth day. The main activities such as worshiping Buddha and the Zhao Dharma Assembly are concentrated in the Jokhang Temple. However, the Tibetan New Year is also the off-season for tourism in Tibet. According to tradition, flights will stop from the first to the fifth day of the first lunar month, and most shops will not open.