Yinchuan
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📷 Montage by Lzy881114· CC BY-SA 3.0塑上江南 | The Jiangnan beyond the desert
About
Yinchuan is a prefecture‑level city and the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China. It served as the imperial capital of the Tangut‑led Western Xia (1038–1227).
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Yinchuan, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Yinchuan
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Rain
23° / 13°
11.5 mm
UV High
Sun
Overcast
24° / 13°
UV High
Mon
Partly cloudy
26° / 10°
UV Moderate
Tue
Overcast
28° / 14°
UV High
Wed
Drizzle
31° / 14°
2.4 mm
UV High
Thu
Drizzle
25° / 16°
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
35° / -2°
Typical high / low
1 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
14.2h
05:44 – 19:58local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Yinchuan
2 commercial airports within 100 km. Closest is Yinchuan Hedong International Airport (INC) at 23 km.
Getting around Yinchuan
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.