Jiantang

Jiantang or Gyaitang (Gyälthang) is a town in northern Yunnan, seat of Shangri-La County and Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Jiantang 建塘镇 · རྒྱལ་ཐང་རྡལ།
Town
Historical center of Jiantang
Jiantang
Coordinates: 27°50′N 99°42′E
Country	China
Province	Yunnan
Prefecture	Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
County	Shangri-La County
Elevation	3,282 m (10,768 ft)
Time zone	UTC+8 (CST)

Jiantang
Chinese name
Chinese	建塘
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiàntáng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྒྱལ་ཐང།
Transcriptions Wylie rgyal thang Tibetan Pinyin Gyaitang

Languages

Khams Tibetan and Southwestern Mandarin are the main languages spoken in the town. Selibu is a Mandarin–Tibetan mixed language spoken by approximately 900 ethnic Hui people in the town.^[1]

Climate

Jiantang has a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with little to no rainfall from November to April and moderate to heavy rainfall from May to October.

Climate data for Jiantang
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	7.4 (45.3)	7.9 (46.2)	10.7 (51.3)	13.5 (56.3)	17.1 (62.8)	18.3 (64.9)	18.4 (65.1)	18.1 (64.6)	16.9 (62.4)	14.6 (58.3)	11.2 (52.2)	8.6 (47.5)	13.6 (56.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)	0.3 (32.5)	1.4 (34.5)	4.2 (39.6)	7.2 (45.0)	11.1 (52.0)	13.5 (56.3)	14.1 (57.4)	13.6 (56.5)	12.3 (54.1)	8.9 (48.0)	4.4 (39.9)	1.4 (34.5)	7.7 (45.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−6.7 (19.9)	−5.1 (22.8)	−2.3 (27.9)	1.0 (33.8)	5.1 (41.2)	8.7 (47.7)	9.9 (49.8)	9.2 (48.6)	7.8 (46.0)	3.3 (37.9)	−2.3 (27.9)	−5.7 (21.7)	1.9 (35.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	5 (0.2)	11 (0.4)	22 (0.9)	36 (1.4)	59 (2.3)	127 (5.0)	194 (7.6)	171 (6.7)	102 (4.0)	61 (2.4)	13 (0.5)	6 (0.2)	807 (31.6)
Source: Climate-Data.org[2]