A continental hot-summer dry-winter climate is closely associated with areas in East Asia which are subject to both the monsoon (in summer), and the Siberian high-pressure weather system (in winter).
It is labelled ‘Dwa’ by the Köppen–Geiger scheme for the classification of climates, which requires:
- the warmest month of the year to have an average temperature of 22 °C or above
- at least four months of the year to have an average temperature of 10 °C or above
- the coldest month of the year to have an average temperature below -3 °C
- annual precipitation to exceed the annual potential evapotranspiration
- the wettest month of summer to have at least 10 times more precipitation than the driest month of winter.
Explore places with the (Dwa) climate
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Běijīng | Běijīng | People’s Republic of China |
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Blagoveshchensk / Blagoveŝensk | Amur / Amurskaâ oblast’ | Russian Federation | Dwa, bordering on Dwb |
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Chuncheon | South Korea |
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Harbin / Hā’ěrbīn | Hēilóngjiāng | People’s Republic of China |
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Incheon | South Korea |
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North Platte | Nebraska | United States of America | Dwa, bordering on Dfa and BSk |
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Pyongyang / P’yŏngyang | North Korea |
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Seoul | South Korea |
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Shěnyáng | Liáoníng | People’s Republic of China |
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