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Land with a climate like Aalst

🇧🇪Aalst, Flanders, Belgium

The towns with the closest growing climate to Aalst are Lille, France (99% match), Arras and Denain. About 585,000 sq mi of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Aalst are Lille, France (99% match), Arras and Denain. About 1.5 million km² of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,147 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,147 chill hours · 794 mm rain

What grows in Aalst →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    57k sq mi149k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Epsom (99), Sutton (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bressuire (93), Limoges (92)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alzenau in Unterfranken (97), Großostheim (97)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Charleville-Mézières (99), Sedan (99)

  5. 5

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Osnabrück (99), Bückeburg (99)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sens (96), Auxerre (96)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Voerde (99), Kamp-Lintfort (99)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dublin (94), Rathfarnham (94)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    9,000 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kołobrzeg (91), Białogard (90)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nowy Tomyśl (83), Trzcianka (82)

  11. 11

    🇩🇰South Denmark, Denmark

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Odense (96), Tønder (93)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (94), Herning (92)

Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.

Closest towns

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    🇫🇷LilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 740 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷ArrasHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 705 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷DenainHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,193 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,193 chill hours · 724 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪DüsseldorfNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,174 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,174 chill hours · 802 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, saffron

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇳🇱VenloLimburg, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 751 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, saffron

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇧🇪NamurWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷AmiensHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 674 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇳🇱NijmegenGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇳🇱EindhovenNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 801 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇳🇱TilburgNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇳🇱RotterdamSouth Holland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,237 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,237 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷Saint-QuentinHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,286 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,286 chill hours · 680 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪BocholtNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 765 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷BeauvaisHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,075 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,075 chill hours · 672 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇩🇪OsnabrückLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇳🇱AmsterdamNorth Holland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 908 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 850 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪StolbergNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,533 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,533 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪KleveNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 768 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧BasingstokeEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 231 frost-free days · 2,023 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 231 frost-free days · 2,023 chill hours · 800 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match

Any town over 15,000 people, skipping those within 75 km of you. ↻ = seasons flipped across the equator.

How matching works

We compare all twelve months of average highs and lows, rain, humidity and sunshine, the same way as Climatch's places-like search, but weighted for growing: winter lows count most, since frost, chill and hardiness decide which perennials survive, then summer highs and rain. Humidity counts least.

Scores show how unusual a match this close is: 80 or better is closer than all but about 2% of random pairs of places. Across the equator seasons are lined up (↻), so a southern farm's January is compared with a northern July. Climate is only part of it: check soil, water and day length (it matters for photoperiod crops) before buying land.

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Climate data: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages (Abatzoglou, J.T. et al., 2018, Scientific Data 5:170191). Humidity is derived from TerraClimate vapor pressure; “sunshine” is solar radiation.

Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Grower tools: crop ranges from FAO ECOCROP and university extension guides (cited per crop). Daily weather, frost dates and chill are estimated from the monthly averages; chill portions use the Dynamic Model (Fishman, Erez & Couvillon, 1987), hardiness zones follow the USDA definition.