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[–] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Canada and the US see much more considerable temperature extremes than does Europe. Water moderates temperature, and in the middle of a continent, far away from the oceans, you get wider swings. Europe's basically a bunch of peninsulas.

The largest swings are in inland Asia, where you can get a really long distance from the ocean.

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I can't find a map I've seen before that shows summer-winter temperature difference, but here's one that shows it for a country's capital which...is a very rough approximation.

https://brilliantmaps.com/capital-temp-difference/

Being close to the poles and being further away from water.

The UK is an archipelago, so it's pretty much all near the water.

EDIT: Here's a map with more resolution data for the US


shows how the summer-winter variation grows as you move away from the coasts.

https://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/08/annual-temperature-extremes.html