Weekly note

Lhasa in July

okbusy · worth considering · the wettest month of the year

The year in Lhasa

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  1. Lhasa in January: ok
  2. Lhasa in February: ok
  3. Lhasa in March: good
  4. Lhasa in April: sweet spot
  5. Lhasa in May: good
  6. Lhasa in June: sweet spot
  7. Lhasa in July: ok, busy
  8. Lhasa in August: ok, busy
  9. Lhasa in September: ok
  10. Lhasa in October: sweet spot
  11. Lhasa in November: ok, busy
  12. Lhasa in December: ok, busy
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
July at Lhasa is 22°C by day and 12°C at night, with 21 rainy days and about 11 hours of sun a day. Busier than usual.

The numbers

Daily high22°C
Nightly low12°C
Feels like, afternoon21°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more21 · 179 mm
Humidity64%
Sunshine10.6 h/day
Daylight13.8 h/day
Crowds65 / 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 Barkhor, the old town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

July: busy. Busiest in July, August, November and December; quietest in February, March, April and June.

Lhasa in pictures

What to pack

  • Warm layers for the evenings, which drop to about 12°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 21 rainy days and 179 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 11 hours of sunshine a day.

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 Lhasa: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

July elsewhere

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