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Land with a climate like Bay City, Michigan

🇺🇸Bay City, Michigan, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bay City, Michigan are Waterford, United States (99% match), Lansing and Jackson. About 849,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, New York, United States and Ontario, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Bay City, Michigan are Waterford, United States (99% match), Lansing and Jackson. About 2.2 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, New York, United States and Ontario, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,306 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,306 chill hours · 777 mm rain

What grows in Bay City, Michigan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi123k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (96), Waterloo (93)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    41k sq mi106k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Batavia (99), Henrietta (99)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    41k sq mi105k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarnia (99), Chatham (98)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    36k sq mi92k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haslett (99), Holt (99)

  5. 5

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (90), Fastiv (89)

  6. 6

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Homyel' (87), Dobrush (86)

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    🇺🇦Kharkiv, Ukraine

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lozova (88), Liubotyn (87)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Malyn (86), Radomyshl (86)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gukovo (84), Donetsk (83)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Belgorod Oblast, Russia

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Belgorod (86), Shebekino (85)

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    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Otradnaya (85), Mostovskoy (83)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Lublin, Poland

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hrubieszów (84), Lublin (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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    🇺🇸WaterfordMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,221 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,221 chill hours · 778 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸BataviaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 890 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

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

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸AuburnNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 993 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

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

    98%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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇺🇸ElmiraNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 875 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇨🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇺🇸DeKalbIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 961 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇺🇸JanesvilleWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 887 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇺🇸KenoshaWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 915 mm rain

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

    97%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.