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Land with a climate like Bessemer

🇺🇸Bessemer, Alabama, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bessemer are Anniston, United States (99% match), Gadsden and LaGrange. About 513,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Mississippi, United States, Georgia, United States and North Carolina, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Bessemer are Anniston, United States (99% match), Gadsden and LaGrange. About 1.3 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Mississippi, United States, Georgia, United States and North Carolina, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,184 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,184 chill hours · 1,534 mm rain

What grows in Bessemer →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇺🇸Mississippi, United States

    53k sq mi139k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Columbus (99), Starkville (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Georgia, United States

    53k sq mi138k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaGrange (99), Newnan (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Laurinburg (98), Lumberton (97)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puyang (80), Hangzhou (80)

  5. 5

    🇺🇾Durazno Department, Uruguay

    3,500 sq mi9,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Durazno (81)

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    🇺🇾Tacuarembó Department, Uruguay

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tacuarembó (78)

  7. 7

    🇨🇳Fujian, China

    1,600 sq mi4,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pucheng (78), Wuyishan (76)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (78), Daye (76)

  9. 9

    🇺🇾Flores Department, Uruguay

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Trinidad (80)

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Samtredia (88), Kutaisi (86)

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    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (84), Poti (67)

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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    🇺🇸AnnistonAlabama, United States

    Zone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 1,426 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸GadsdenAlabama, United States

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,301 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,301 chill hours · 1,445 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸LaGrangeGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,133 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,133 chill hours · 1,415 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, fig

    99%match
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    🇺🇸StarkvilleMississippi, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,169 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,169 chill hours · 1,475 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸TupeloMississippi, United States

    Zone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,294 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,294 chill hours · 1,468 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MeridianMississippi, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 982 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 982 chill hours · 1,548 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
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    🇺🇸HuntsvilleAlabama, United States

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 1,466 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AuburnAlabama, United States

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 975 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 975 chill hours · 1,468 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, fig

    99%match
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    🇺🇸RomeGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,436 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸FlorenceAlabama, United States

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,420 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,420 chill hours · 1,471 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸OxfordMississippi, United States

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 1,490 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AthensGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 1,264 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus, olive

    99%match
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    🇺🇸DuluthGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,254 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,254 chill hours · 1,401 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
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    🇺🇸RoswellGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 1,376 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
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    🇺🇸CullmanAlabama, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,486 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,486 chill hours · 1,520 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Sandy SpringsGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 1,346 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus

    99%match
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    🇺🇸El DoradoArkansas, United States

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,080 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,080 chill hours · 1,369 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus

    99%match
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    🇺🇸ChattanoogaTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,509 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,509 chill hours · 1,475 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AndersonSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,318 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,318 chill hours · 1,260 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇺🇸SelmaAlabama, United States

    Zone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 823 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 823 chill hours · 1,394 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, fig

    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.