| A | B |
|---|
| Semiarid | Temperature change between night and day is considerable |
| Subtropical Dry Summer | Warm to hot and mild, rainy winters |
| Humid Subtropical | Hot and cool winters |
| Tropical Wet | Hot and muggy all year |
| Humid Oceanic | Summers are warm, winters are cool to mild |
| Humid Continental | Mild to warm summers and cold winters |
| Subarctic | Short, cool summers and long, bitterly cold winters |
| Tundra | Dry, with a brief, chilly summer and a bitterly cold winter |
| Icecap | Summers rarely above freezing and subzero long winters |
| Highland | Composed of serveral climates because the extreme change in elevation |
