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6 B's, 3 C's, and 1 E. Xian's dry season seriously damaged its score, Plovdiv did surprisingly well given its precipitation total. Usually climates with less than 20" of yearly precipitation don't get C's. Louisville wins for its relatively high precipitation total.
Washington DC for the best combination of temperatures, precipitation, and sunshine. Louisville is similar but the main difference is that the annual mean minimum is 5C colder.
Plovdiv. A pretty decent climate, in many ways a kind of Mediterranean/continental hybrid, gets some snow albeit in variable amounts and is decently warm, dry and sunny in high summer. Gets a short "wet" season in late spring as a transition but no months are excessively wet.
Belgrade and Krasnodar are OK, Sentai is decent in winter but crap in summer, the American ones spoilt by the excessive temperature swings in winter and too much rain in summer, although they are decent enough for sunshine (why are American Cfa/Dfa types often so much wetter than east European ones, despite being mostly much further from the sea? Lower latitude meaning more solar heating? Louisville's 66 inches of rain in 2018 would be exceptional in the wettest British coastal cities).
Xian, standard east Asia fail with all the precipitation at the wrong time of year, Daegu has that tendency though does get some winter snow and more sun than most of those climates. Milan isn't too bad on a global scale (especially compared to Cfa climates in Asia) but compared to other places in Italy it does suffer, lacking the reliable snow of the mountain areas or the dry summers of the south. The winters are too British and the summers too eastern USA for me, though spring and autumn are comfortable.
I really like Milan, Sendai, Krasnodar, and Belgrade. Sendai though has a bit too much lag for me, and diurnal ranges are lower than ideal. I prefer milan's precip total over the other two, so it wins for me despite a bit lower sun and (probably) snow amounts. Taking to account italian stats are a bit old, one of the other 2 may be a better fit nowadays.
Louisville and DC are mostly good too but a bit too hot and humid in summer, Plovdiv is a bit on the dry side for me, Xian is too hot in summer, too dry, and gloomy for me, and Daegu's nights are not good in summer at all. Wichita is probably too extreme for me too with the heatwave potential.
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