Weekly note
Kashgar: a large building with a green and white roof

The numbers

Daily high1°C
Nightly low-7°C
Feels like, afternoon-3°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more0 · 4 mm
Humidity55%
Sunshine7.9 h/day
Daylight9.4 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the old town (Id Kah), 11 km from the airport (KHG): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: quieter than usual. Busiest in July, August and October; quietest from January to March.

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -7°C.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and C and I plugs at 220 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Renminbi. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for China: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Kashgar: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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