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Looks like a Northern Hemisphere, mid-altitude, high-latitude steppe region. Not "arid", more likely "semi-arid". Your climochart is very similar to Spokane, Washington and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, both of which under Köppen are either Dsb, (humid continental), or Csb, (warm-summer Mediterranean).
This is not a Utopia, but I decided to combine two climates together into one, and this is what I got. If anyone can guess the two cities then awesome. One is a Dfa borderline BSk climate and the other is a Dfb climate.
The closest cities are probably Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. I didn't find any places in Europe or Asia that fit. A few climates had similar temperatures (Ioannina, Greece; Uşak, Turkey, and parts of Japan) but the rain didn't match. The largest difference is that the Tennessee climates have lower record lows and higher humidity.
There's no real-world climate this hot. The closest are extreme deserts, but most deserts don't get summer rain.
Sukkur, Pakistan has the right precipitation pattern but isn't wet or hot enough. Nearby Mohenjo-daro is likely hotter but I can't find climate data besides the record high of 53.5C. Kuwait City is one of the few places that comes close to the highs and record, but winter's too cold and it's dry. Mitribah is slightly warmer but I can't find any averages. It's got data on Ogimet, last July had many days above 50C. Record high there is 54C!
And then there's a few other places but they're all too dry. Dallol, Death Valley, Bullhead City.
Bullhead City is the hottest climate I found in Arizona.
The closest climate in the US is probably Billings, Montana. Precipitation and summer temperatures are similar but winter is mild. There's several climates with similar temperatures but the precipitation patterns don't match. However there are climates like this in Turkey: Eskişehir, Turkey is almost a perfect match in summer, but winter is too mild. Erzurum, Turkey is close but cooler than your climate in most months. It's at 6200'/1900m so there might be a warmer version at a lower elevation. Ağrı, Turkey is another close match with colder winters.
Another similar climate is Oral, Kazahstan (also called Uralsk).
There's no real-world climate this hot. The closest are extreme deserts, but most deserts don't get summer rain.
Sukkur, Pakistan has the right precipitation pattern but isn't wet or hot enough. Nearby Mohenjo-daro is likely hotter but I can't find climate data besides the record high of 53.5C. Kuwait City is one of the few places that comes close to the highs and record, but winter's too cold and it's dry. Mitribah is slightly warmer but I can't find any averages. It's got data on Ogimet, last July had many days above 50C. Record high there is 54C!
And then there's a few other places but they're all too dry. Dallol, Death Valley, Bullhead City.
Bullhead City is the hottest climate I found in Arizona.
For the most part, the entire Colorado River Valley along Arizona's western border is the hottest. It is the lowest elevation on average, and closest to the rain shadow from the tall mountains in Southern California. (All American deserts sit in a rain shadow except for the Chihuahuan Desert, though the rain shadow is more extreme in the Mojave and Coronado deserts in Nevada and California).
The Sonora desert in general gets a monsoon season in August/July and we receive about half of our annual rain in the span of that one month. Phoenix and Tucson especially are prone to flash floods. Bullhead City sits in the Mojave, a different desert, thus doesn't get monsoon seasons quite like we do. Especially since the monsoons come up from the south.
Yuma, AZ has a monsoon season in August. Not as hot as BHC, but close.
The temperature pattern is close to the northeast or midwest USA, but the precipitation matches a mediterranean climate.
Temperatures are very close to Traverse City, Michigan. But it has have wet summers.
Precipitation is a close match to Sequim 2 E, Washington and Heber, Utah. But they are too mild in winter.
There might not be any good matches in North America... Western Canada has some climates that have similar trends, but aren't really that close. Example: Creston, British Columbia
The closest climates I've found are in Turkey.
Erzurum is very close except for summer nights and the rain pattern. Ağrı has warmer summers. Or if you want really warm summers, there's Muş, a very unusual climate.
There's definitely climates close to this one, except they get much less snow. I couldn't find an exact summer or winter match. Summers match up well with places in eastern europe, such as Budapest, Hungary or Dnipro, Ukraine
Winter matches up well with Spokane, Washington except for the snowfall.
Here are 4 climates. There is a Cfb climate, an EF climate, a BWh climate, and an Af climate.
Oceanic Land: D
Snowy Island: B
Desert Plateau: A
Rainforest Plateau: Z
I give F for EF and BWh, B for Cfb and A+ for Af
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