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Land with a climate like Bloomington, Illinois

🇺🇸Bloomington, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bloomington, Illinois are Joliet, United States (99% match), Marion and Lima. About 697,000 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 Bloomington, Illinois are Joliet, United States (99% match), Marion and Lima. About 1.8 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 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 973 mm rain

What grows in Bloomington, Illinois →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    54k sq mi140k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kirksville (99), Hannibal (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    53k sq mi137k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Joliet (99), Kankakee (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    42k sq mi108k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lima (99), Sidney (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (93), Labinsk (93)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Čačak (90), Valjevo (89)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ruma (86), Vršac (86)

  7. 7

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (97), Tecumseh (97)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kochubeyevskoye (85), Novoaleksandrovsk (84)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yegorlykskaya (82), Bataysk (82)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lukavac (88), Gradačac (88)

  11. 11

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bijeljina (88), Doboj (87)

  12. 12

    🇷🇴Dolj, Romania

    2,800 sq mi7,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Filiaşi (89), Craiova (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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    🇺🇸JolietIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,971 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,971 chill hours · 986 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸LimaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 912 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸KankakeeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸South BendIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸GalesburgIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 964 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸DublinOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,825 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,825 chill hours · 963 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸CiceroIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,966 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,966 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸Fort WayneIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 909 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸MacombIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,906 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,906 chill hours · 942 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸MarionOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,986 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,986 chill hours · 941 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸JacksonvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 979 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸ToledoOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 189 frost-free days · 2,989 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 189 frost-free days · 2,989 chill hours · 853 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸KirksvilleMissouri, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,853 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,853 chill hours · 1,005 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸BurlingtonIowa, United States

    Zone 6b · 193 frost-free days · 2,880 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 193 frost-free days · 2,880 chill hours · 904 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸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
  18. 18

    🇺🇸FindlayOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸PortageIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸MuncieIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 995 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.