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Land with a climate like Apolda

🇩🇪Apolda, Thuringia, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Apolda are Finsterwalde, Germany (99% match), Cottbus and Gießen. About 871,000 sq mi of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Apolda are Finsterwalde, Germany (99% match), Cottbus and Gießen. About 2.3 million km² of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 599 mm rain

What grows in Apolda →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    37k sq mi95k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Northampton (92), Cambridge (92)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Würzburg (99), Nuremberg (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haguenau (98), Lingolsheim (97)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wolfsburg (99), Göttingen (99)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chamalières (92), Vichy (91)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gornji Milanovac (89), Bor (87)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Le Creusot (94), Autun (93)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Euskirchen (99), Rheinbach (99)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hostomel (88), Kotsyubynske (88)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rawicz (99), Leszno (98)

  11. 11

    🇧🇾Brest, Belarus

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brest (91), Pinsk (89)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Mazovia, Poland

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Warsaw (96), Śródmieście (96)

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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    🇩🇪FinsterwaldeBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇩🇪CottbusBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,888 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,888 chill hours · 574 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪GießenHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,783 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,783 chill hours · 634 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪KasselHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪MagdeburgSaxony-Anhalt, Germany

    Zone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 522 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇵🇱ŻaryLubusz, Poland

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,082 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,082 chill hours · 635 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇩🇪WittenbergeBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 598 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪WürzburgBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,904 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,904 chill hours · 635 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇩🇪GörlitzSaxony, Germany

    Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇩🇪BraunschweigLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,796 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,796 chill hours · 624 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇩🇪Hansestadt SalzwedelSaxony-Anhalt, Germany

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,935 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,935 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪NurembergBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 185 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 185 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 677 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, maize (corn)

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪StuttgartBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 686 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇨🇿MostÚstí nad Labem Region, Czechia

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,987 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,987 chill hours · 675 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), walnut

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇩🇪StendalSaxony-Anhalt, Germany

    Zone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,831 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,831 chill hours · 571 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, maize (corn)

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇩🇪KaiserslauternRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,788 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,788 chill hours · 676 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇩🇪Königs WusterhausenBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 197 frost-free days · 2,993 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8a · 197 frost-free days · 2,993 chill hours · 561 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇩🇪Hanau am MainHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,626 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,626 chill hours · 666 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, fig, maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇨🇿Česká LípaLiberec Region, Czechia

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,099 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,099 chill hours · 685 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇩🇪NortheimLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,856 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,856 chill hours · 648 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 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.