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Land with a climate like Amherst, New York

🇺🇸Amherst, New York, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Amherst, New York are Hamilton, Canada (99% match), Chatham and Ashtabula. About 973,000 sq mi of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Amherst, New York are Hamilton, Canada (99% match), Chatham and Ashtabula. About 2.5 million km² of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,132 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,132 chill hours · 964 mm rain

What grows in Amherst, New York →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    45k sq mi116k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dolton (98), Country Club Hills (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gates-North Gates (99), Rochester (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashtabula (99), Painesville (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stoney Creek (99), Hamilton (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (91), Labinsk (88)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haar (88), Erding (88)

  7. 7

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (94), Gornji Milanovac (89)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ravensburg (86), Weingarten (86)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (89), Tuzla (87)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fastiv (87), Skvyra (87)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (85), Ladyzhyn (84)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Poltava, Ukraine

    9,300 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lubny (85), Hadyach (83)

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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    🇨🇦HamiltonOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 870 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇦ChathamOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸AshtabulaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇦LeamingtonOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 907 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸EriePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 1,053 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇦TorontoOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,234 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,234 chill hours · 826 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇨🇦LondonOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,257 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,257 chill hours · 998 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸LorainOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,990 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,990 chill hours · 905 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸DetroitMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 865 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸RochesterNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 864 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸MuskegonMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸KentOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 997 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸SanduskyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸DefianceOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 872 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸MansfieldOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 994 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Ann ArborMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 862 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸South BendIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇨🇦SarniaOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸VestalNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 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.