Đông Hà
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Đông Hà
Thành phố Đông Hà | |
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Đông Hà City | |
Quảng Trị | |
Area | |
• Total | 72.96 km2 (28.17 sq mi) |
Population (2009) | |
• Total | 93,800 |
Climate | Am |
Đông Hà (
History
The city was initially part of
During the Vietnam War, Đông Hà was the northernmost town in South Vietnam and was the location of a strategically important United States Marine Corps Đông Hà Combat Base, to support Marine positions along the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).[2] During the so-called Easter Offensive in 1972, the town was the scene of a ferocious battle between the South Vietnamese army and invading North Vietnamese armored forces. The North Vietnamese army captured the town on 28 April 1972, and it was never regained by the South Vietnamese.
Tourists come to Đông Hà nowadays, especially ex-servicemen from the U.S. and Vietnam, who nearly always include a DMZ tour in their programs. The contemporary Vietnamese singer
Climate
Đông Hà has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). There is a wet season due to the northeast monsoon between August and December, peaking in October with around 629.7 millimetres or 25 inches of rain and frequent typhoon landfalls. The dry season lasts from January to July, though there is a secondary rainfall peak in May. The highest temperature recorded was 42.7 °C on 26 April 2024, while the lowest was 9.4 °C on 2 March 1986.
Climate data for Đông Hà | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 35.0 (95.0) |
37.9 (100.2) |
39.8 (103.6) |
42.7 (108.9) |
42.3 (108.1) |
41.4 (106.5) |
39.7 (103.5) |
39.5 (103.1) |
38.9 (102.0) |
34.9 (94.8) |
35.6 (96.1) |
33.0 (91.4) |
42.7 (108.9) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 22.9 (73.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
27.1 (80.8) |
31.3 (88.3) |
33.9 (93.0) |
34.8 (94.6) |
34.6 (94.3) |
33.8 (92.8) |
31.7 (89.1) |
28.7 (83.7) |
26.0 (78.8) |
23.2 (73.8) |
29.3 (84.7) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 19.6 (67.3) |
20.5 (68.9) |
22.7 (72.9) |
25.9 (78.6) |
28.4 (83.1) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.5 (85.1) |
28.9 (84.0) |
27.3 (81.1) |
25.3 (77.5) |
23.0 (73.4) |
20.3 (68.5) |
25.1 (77.2) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 17.5 (63.5) |
18.3 (64.9) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
26.5 (79.7) |
26.3 (79.3) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.5 (76.1) |
23.0 (73.4) |
20.9 (69.6) |
18.3 (64.9) |
22.5 (72.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | 10.0 (50.0) |
11.1 (52.0) |
9.4 (48.9) |
15.0 (59.0) |
17.4 (63.3) |
19.8 (67.6) |
22.2 (72.0) |
22.7 (72.9) |
18.6 (65.5) |
16.9 (62.4) |
13.0 (55.4) |
9.8 (49.6) |
9.4 (48.9) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 52.9 (2.08) |
32.0 (1.26) |
35.2 (1.39) |
63.7 (2.51) |
116.8 (4.60) |
92.2 (3.63) |
81.4 (3.20) |
159.6 (6.28) |
400.6 (15.77) |
629.7 (24.79) |
402.4 (15.84) |
189.7 (7.47) |
2,252.7 (88.69) |
Average rainy days | 14.0 | 11.4 | 11.3 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 11.0 | 15.9 | 20.4 | 20.0 | 18.4 | 158.5 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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74.8 | 76.4 | 70.8 | 64.1 | 57.8 | 53.2 | 51.0 | 55.5 | 65.0 | 73.1 | 74.8 | 75.6 | 66.0 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 95.3 | 88.9 | 123.4 | 170.2 | 228.2 | 225.1 | 227.5 | 199.1 | 161.7 | 127.9 | 94.2 | 72.2 | 1,815.1 |
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[3] |
See also
- Dong Ha travel guide from Wikivoyage
References
- ^ "Quang Tri - Vietnam Tourism Information". www.vietnamtourism.org.vn. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ Keith W. Nolan The Story of an Armored Cavalry Squadron in Vietnam: 1-1 Cav, 1967-1968 ... Just north of Đông Hà on April 6 the correspondent, Brummett, and Nguyễn Ngọc Lương, the paper's interpreter, waited for a possible tank battle"
- ^ "Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology" (PDF).