Yearly Weather for Dunhuang, Gansu, China

Dunhuang, being surrounded by high mountains, has an arid, continental climate. The annual average temperature is 9.48 º C (49.1 º F), but the monthly daily mean temperature ranges from 24.6 º C (76.3 º F) in July down to -8.3 º C (17.1 º F) in January. The city is extremely hot in summer and cold in winter, and usually has sharp temperature differences between day and night. Precipitation occurs only in trace amounts and quickly evaporates.