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Trip Preparation: Travel Issues
Travel issues | Maps | When to go | Costs & budgets
In central Tibet, the average altitude is almost 4000m. The height brings with it extreme temperatures and the land is often covered in snow. The lowest temperatures in winter will reach around -40ºC. Midday in summer can be as hot as 38ºC. The rainfall is limited to 25-50cm per year, most of it falling within a three-month period (from June to August).
Essentially, travellers may visit Tibet at any time of the year and cyclists have made the journey from Golmud to Lhasa in the middle of winter. However, the spring and autumn months are the best time for overland travel in Tibet.
Summer is very wet - many of the rivers flood and the roads become very muddy. Winter is simply too cold to be out in the open - particularly over exposed mountain passes - without serious equipment for those conditions. Also Lhasa airport is closed from November to February.
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Cycling on the highest roads in the
world can mean extreme conditions
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