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Land with a climate like Basel

🇨🇭Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

The towns with the closest growing climate to Basel are Sélestat, France (99% match), Strasbourg and Heilbronn. About 888,000 sq mi of land in 40 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, England, United Kingdom and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Basel are Sélestat, France (99% match), Strasbourg and Heilbronn. About 2.3 million km² of land in 40 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, England, United Kingdom and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 745 mm rain

What grows in Basel →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    30k sq mi77k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (98), Tulle (96)

  2. 2

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    29k sq mi76k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Ealing (91), Southall (91)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    23k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moulins (99), Annemasse (99)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Großostheim (99), Aschaffenburg (98)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bay Village (85), Westlake (85)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (93), Labinsk (91)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Illkirch-Graffenstaden (99), Sélestat (99)

  8. 8

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aranđelovac (97), Čačak (97)

  9. 9

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hannover (96), Nordstadt (96)

  10. 10

    🇩🇪Brandenburg, Germany

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cottbus (95), Senftenberg (94)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rawicz (89), Poznań (89)

  12. 12

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apatin (96), Bačka Palanka (95)

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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    🇫🇷SélestatGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,474 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,474 chill hours · 687 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷StrasbourgGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,439 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,439 chill hours · 686 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪HeilbronnBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 209 frost-free days · 2,662 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 209 frost-free days · 2,662 chill hours · 742 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇫🇷MetzGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,445 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,445 chill hours · 729 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪KarlsruheBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,477 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,477 chill hours · 760 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇫🇷NancyGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,544 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,544 chill hours · 740 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷DijonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 731 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪MannheimBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,474 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,474 chill hours · 658 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷MoulinsAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷Saint-DizierGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,171 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,171 chill hours · 808 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇫🇷ChaumontGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 721 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪KonstanzBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,765 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,765 chill hours · 874 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, kiwifruit

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪KoblenzRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,463 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,463 chill hours · 693 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷TroyesGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 681 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇫🇷VerdunGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,506 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,506 chill hours · 778 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇫🇷Chalon-sur-SaôneBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 787 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, almond, olive

    99%match
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    🇫🇷NeversBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 742 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    99%match
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    🇨🇭NeuchâtelSwitzerland

    Zone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,727 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,727 chill hours · 910 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇨🇭GenevaSwitzerland

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    99%match
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    🇫🇷VichyAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 694 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.