· History and Geography Facts of Kunming.

-Geography
Kunming is renowned as the 'City of Eternal Spring' due to its year-round mild and pleasant spring-like climate. Kunming is located between 102 degrees and 103 degrees east longitude and between 24 degrees and 26 degrees north latitude.

-Temperature
The annual temperature averages 14.5 degrees centigrade. October is considered to be Kunming's rainy season therefore it is recommended that you carry a lined raincoat. The average relative air humidity is 74%. The temperature between day and night may vary between 12 oC (about 53.6 oF) to 20 oC


11thNov
AVERAGES
High: 63°F
Low: 45°F
Rainfall: 38MM

12hNov
AVERAGES
High: 63°F
Low: 45°F
Rainfall: 38MM

13thNov
AVERAGES
High: 63°F
Low: 45°F
Rainfall: 38MM
14thNov
AVERAGES
High: 63°F
Low: 44°F
Rainfall: 38MM

15thNov
AVERAGES
Hi 63°F
Lo 44°F
Rainfall: 38MM

16thNov
AVERAGES
High: 63°F
Low: 44°F
Rainfall: 38MM

17thNov
AVERAGES
High: 62°F
Low: 43°F
Rainfall: 38MM

18thNov
AVERAGES
High: 62°F
Low: 43°F
Rainfall: 38MM


-History about Kunming
Founded in 765 CE, Kunming was known to the Chinese as Tuodong (拓东) city in the independent state of Nanzhao during the 8th and 9th centuries.
This changed when Tuodong came under the control of the Chinese central government with the Yuan (Mongol) invasion of the southwest in 1252-1253. In 1276 it was founded by the Mongol rulers as Kunming County and became the provincial capital of Yunnan. The city grew as a trading center between the southwest and the rest of China.
It is considered by scholars to have been the city of Yachi Fu (Duck Pond Town) where people had used cowries as cash and ate their meat raw, as described by the 13th-century Venetian traveler Marco Polo who traveled to the area and wrote about his fascination of the place
Kunming reverted to county status in 1912, under the name Kunming, and became a municipality in 1935.

The opening of the Kunming area began in earnest with the completion in 1906-1910 of the railway to Haiphong in north Vietnam (part of French Indochina). Kunming became a treaty port opening to foreign trade in 1908 and soon became a commercial center. In the 1930s its importance grew still further when the first highways were built, linking Kunming with Chongqing in Sichuan and Guiyang in Guizhou to the east. Kunming's rail link to Hanoi was cut during World War II, restored in 1957, cut again in 1979, and reopened in 1996.