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Land with a climate like Besançon

🇫🇷Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Besançon are Geneva, Switzerland (99% match), Bourg-en-Bresse and Lausanne. About 667,000 sq mi of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Besançon are Geneva, Switzerland (99% match), Bourg-en-Bresse and Lausanne. About 1.7 million km² of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 1,094 mm rain

What grows in Besançon →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    31k sq mi81k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Limoges (99), Guéret (98)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bourg-en-Bresse (99), Oyonnax (99)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lindau (96), Munich (96)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montigny-lès-Metz (98), Thionville (98)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (95), Čačak (94)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cleveland Heights (84), East Cleveland (84)

  7. 7

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (93), Belorechensk (92)

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    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weirton (84), Weirton Heights (82)

  9. 9

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rinteln (92), Osnabrück (91)

  10. 10

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hennef (Sieg) (94), Odenthal (94)

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    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cazin (98), Velika Kladuša (98)

  12. 12

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Williamsport (81), Monroeville (80)

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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    🇨🇭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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷Bourg-en-BresseAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,180 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,180 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, sorghum, olive

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇭LausanneVaud, Switzerland

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,610 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,610 chill hours · 1,162 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇫🇷ChambéryAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, sorghum

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪OffenburgBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,470 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,470 chill hours · 850 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

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

    Zone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 982 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷LimogesNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪FreiburgBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,650 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,650 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷GuéretNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 827 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇭OpfikonZurich, Switzerland

    Zone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,772 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,772 chill hours · 1,033 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇩🇪HeidelbergBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,462 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,462 chill hours · 806 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
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    🇧🇦CazinFederation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Zone 8a · 219 frost-free days · 2,528 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 219 frost-free days · 2,528 chill hours · 1,312 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇫🇷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 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, olive, saffron

    98%match
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    🇭🇷KarlovacCroatia

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 1,060 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, almond

    98%match
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    🇫🇷ÉpinalGrand Est, France

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,721 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,721 chill hours · 895 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇩🇪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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
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    🇨🇭ZürichZurich, Switzerland

    Zone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,738 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,738 chill hours · 1,082 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷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 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
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    🇸🇮Novo MestoUrban Municipality of Novo Mesto, Slovenia

    Zone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,576 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,576 chill hours · 1,122 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    98%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.