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Land with a climate like Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

🇺🇸Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania are Lebanon, United States (99% match), Paterson and Hartford. About 608,000 sq mi of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania are Lebanon, United States (99% match), Paterson and Hartford. About 1.6 million km² of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,768 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,768 chill hours · 1,119 mm rain

What grows in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    58k sq mi150k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kirksville (95), Wentzville (94)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    50k sq mi131k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Decatur (97), Bloomington (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    42k sq mi109k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newark (99), Dublin (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (94), Labinsk (94)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Novi Pazar (89), Užice (88)

  6. 6

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarajevo (92), Ilidža (92)

  7. 7

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ruma (83), Vršac (83)

  8. 8

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (94), Tecumseh (93)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prijedor (89), Banja Luka (89)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    2,900 sq mi7,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmachi (93), Hotaka (93)

  11. 11

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallarate (88), Cassano Magnago (87)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Zakarpattia, Ukraine

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vynohradiv (88), Khust (87)

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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    🇺🇸LebanonPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,755 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,755 chill hours · 1,065 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸PatersonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,702 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,702 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸HartfordConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 2,875 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 2,875 chill hours · 1,140 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸PoughkeepsieNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 1,085 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸ProvidenceRhode Island, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,769 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,769 chill hours · 1,222 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸New HavenConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,736 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,736 chill hours · 1,184 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸BridgeportConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 1,198 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸BostonMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,851 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,851 chill hours · 1,167 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸AltoonaPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,959 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,959 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸EdisonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 1,232 mm rain

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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸HarrisburgPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,607 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,607 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸MorgantownWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 1,056 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸NewarkOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 1,054 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸West ChesterPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,618 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,618 chill hours · 1,179 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸Wilkes-BarrePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 2,968 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 2,968 chill hours · 979 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸PittsburghPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸WheelingWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 974 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸RyeNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,668 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,668 chill hours · 1,162 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸CumberlandMaryland, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,656 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,656 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸YoungstownOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,933 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,933 chill hours · 992 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.