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Weather of Chongqing
Chongqing belongs to sub-tropical monsoon climate. The features are warm winter, hot summer, early spring and short autumn. Annual average temperature is around 19.2oC The average lowest temperature is 6-8oC in winter. The average highest temperature is 27-38oC in summer and the extreme temperature can reach as high as 43.8oC. Hence it had got the name of "furnace city".
Known as one of China's "Three Furnaces" (along with Wuhan and Nanjing), Chongqing is unbearably hot during the summer. The surrounding mountains seem to trap the heat. It is pleasant to visit the city in other seasons.
The monsoon concentrates in summer time. The annual average rainfall is 1000-1100mm. There is plenty of night rain in summer, hence the saying "Ba mountains' night rain".
Chongqing is also called "foggy city". There is much fog from the end of autumn to early spring with at least 68 foggy days a year. Chongqing is also one of the cities with shortest sunshine time in China. The annual sunshine time is 941.9 hours.
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