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Urumqi General information


It is the golden season when Urumchi travels from May to October, because the flowers and trees contend in beauty in this period of time, the melon and fruit overflow fragrantly. By the look of geographical position, Urumchi is the city farthest from the ocean in the world, the climate that it is continental and arid in the temperate zone while belonging to, annual average precipitation is 194 millimetres , hottest June and August, temperature on average is 25.7 degree, the coldest one is January, the temperature on average is minus 15.2 degrees centigrade. Because the diurnal amplitude of Urumchi is relatively large, even going in the hottest month, prepare a sweater or insert the belt at least too. 5, 6, 9, 10 Should take sweater, overcoat or windbreak, etc. in the moon. It is before April until later November, must have lasted clothes in heavy woolen cloth overcoat or down coat, etc. .

Remind: Xinjiang is with a small population in a large area, go to the remote place to travel and had better allocate the good car in advance (can lease in the locality ). Urumchi time and Beijing time have time difference for 2 hour, reach there will certainly should pay attention to the question, people were not generally going to work until 10 o'clock a.m., have lunch at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the supper did not usually begin until eight or nine o'clock, it has not been black yet at that time. In Xinjiang, people do shopping and generally get used to using " the metric system " on the market, for example use " kilogram (kilogram ) " in the article weight of the balance amount, and no matter " jin ". Ethnic minorities such as the Uygur nationality, Hui, Kazak of Xinjiang, etc., in order to believe in the nationality of Islam, visitors prohibit to eat the thing of the pork products in front of them, forbids talking about the thing related to " pig " even more.


Tourist salvage and consulting phone

Burglar alarm
110
Fire alarm
119
Infomation directory desk
114
Information directory desk online
www.114.china.com
Time desk
117
Medical emergency desk
120
Civil aviation info query station
2580
Railroad info query station
2585


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