Climate and Map of the Taiga Biome
The Taiga is primarily a coniferous forest (evergreen trees with needles) like the temperate rainforest, but the taiga is located between 50 degrees latitude north and the Arctic circle. http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/taiga/where.htm
Temperatures vary from −54 °C to 30 °C (-65 °F to 86 °F) throughout the whole year. The precipitation ranges from 20-40 inches in snow and 10-20 inches of rain. http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Taiga.html