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The best time to travel in Lhasa


The Lhasa has the name of "the sunlight city" in history. Its sunshine time is long, and radiation intensity is high; But the climate is temperate. It has not extremely hot summer, either severely cold winter. In the whole year, the highest temperature in summer occurs in June, and the lowest temperature in winter occurs in January; The rainfall amount are low, but the line between the wet and dry season is obvious. The rainfall seasons mainly concentrate in July, August and September. And the rain usually falls at nights. So the climate in Summer and Autumn are warm and moist, not like that in Winter and Spring, which are the golden seasons of traveling. But Lhasa's elevation is 3650 meters, and the air is thin. People are very easy to arise the plateau responds. therefore physically weak person must prepare oxygen pocket, anti- plateau response drugs and drugs treating diarrhea, headache; Also because the solar radiation is very strong, guards against the sunshine such as the frost (certainly the high time), the sunglasses, the parasol / hat are all necessary, as well as enough clothing dealing with a great temperature difference


Tourist salvage and consulting phone

Burglar alarm
110
Fire alarm
119
Infomation directory desk
114
Information directory desk online
www.114.china.com
Time desk
117
Medical emergency desk
120
Civil aviation info query station
2580
Railroad info query station
2585