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Chongqing belongs to sub-tropical monsoon climate. The features are warm winter, hot summer, early spring and short autumn. Annual average temperature is around 19.2ºC The average lowest temperature is 6-8ºC in winter. The average highest temperature is 27-38ºC in summer and the extreme temperature can reach as high as 43.8ºC. Hence it had got the name of �furnace city�.
The monsoon concentrates in summertime. The annual average rainfall is 1000-1100mm. There is plenty of night rain in summer, hence the saying �Ba mountains� night rain�. Chongqing is also called �foggy city�. There is much fog from the end of autumn to early spring with at least 68 foggy days a year. Chongqing is also one of the cities with shortest sunshine time in China. The annual sunshine time is 941.9 hours.
(china.org.cn)
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