The historical urumqi, is world-famous ancient "silk road" of the new north road path. Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang province, was called the graceful ranch.
Climate characteristics are: dramatic changes in temperature, has little rainfall, and with the increasing vertical height. Winter is cold and long, has a uneven distribution of the four seasons, the long winter has a temperature inversion appears layer.
Detailed information on seasons:
Spring: Urumqi area has a late spring and the northern area even late till March 26 into spring, Ten days later, the south still around 20 April only saw green wave front. From the early June each year since the north and south of Urumqi have ended spring, The rainfall amount in Spring accounted for about 40 per cent of the annual precipitation, And this is good for the land plants.
Summer: The summer of urumqi suburban area, combining urban forest lush romance, The summer for north from June 4th to September 21; for 90 days. City from June 23 August 24, 62 days, The temperature difference is big, the average temperature in summer is 23 degrees.
Autumn: Urumqi autumn from August 24th. The northern plains delay 10 days after it is autumn, Weather in autumn is more stable, neither too hot nor too cold weather, It is gentle and pleasant. Autumn is the harvest season, there are abundant fruit in Urumqi. Since late September, it is getting cold frequently and the temperature drops rapidly.
Winter: Winter of Urumqi begins from November 3rd to April 8 up to 150 days.
There was a hilly south mountain "warm" in January, temperatures is 4 or 5 degrees higher than the downtown. This unique winter climate condition, making the big awning vegetables production.