- on the baltic; Kiev, Ukraine; Budapest and Moscow
, Russia (Dfb)
Minsk, Belarus (Dfb)
Warsaw, Poland (Dfb)
Pristina, Kosovo (Dfb)
Erzurum, Turkey (Dfb)
Ardahan, Turkey (Dfb)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Dfb)
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (Dfb)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Dfb)
Buffalo, New York, United States (Dfb)
Portland, Maine, United States (Dfb)
Marquette, Michigan, United States (Dfb)
Heihe, China (Dwb)
Vladivostok, Russia (Dwb)
Irkutsk, Russia (Dwb)
Baruunturuun, Mongolia (Dwb)
Pyeongchang County, South Korea (Dwb)
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, United States (Dwb)
- Dwa (cold - and dry - winters with hot summers is characteristic especially of China)
- Dwb (cold - and arid - winters with warm summers).
- Dsa (Dry summer) climates are found at higher elevations adjacent Mediterranean (Csa) climates like in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Saqqez and Arak, Iran; Hakkâri and Muş, Turkey; Cambridge, Idaho, United States (Dsa).
- Dsb (continental climates) exist in high altitude areas near Mediterranean climates. In some cases, the semi-arid climate classification of BSk can also be considered to be continental as long as it has cold winters. The definition of this climate regarding temperature is as follows: the mean temperature of the coldest month must be below −3 °C (26.6 °F) and there must be at least four months whose mean temperatures are at or above 10 °C (50 °F)