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Land with a climate like Butte

🇺🇸Butte, Montana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Butte are Laramie, United States (92% match), Helena and Lethbridge. About 194,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Wyoming, United States and Alberta, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Butte are Laramie, United States (92% match), Helena and Lethbridge. About 504,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Wyoming, United States and Alberta, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 106 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 5b · 106 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 308 mm rain

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Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Montana, United States

    29k sq mi75k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Helena (91), Bozeman (86)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Wyoming, United States

    27k sq mi69k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Laramie (92), Sheridan (84)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lethbridge (89), Calgary (84)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Idaho, United States

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rexburg (87), Conda (80)

  5. 5

    🇰🇬Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

  6. 6

    🇰🇿Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarqant (53)

  7. 7

    🇰🇬Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Karakol (74), Kyzyl-Suu (72)

  8. 8

    🇰🇬Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Talas (62)

  9. 9

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇺🇸LaramieWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,640 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,640 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    92%match
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    🇺🇸HelenaMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, sunflower

    91%match
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    🇨🇦LethbridgeAlberta, Canada

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 382 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, blueberry, hemp

    89%match
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    🇺🇸RexburgIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 321 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸BozemanMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 433 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, sunflower

    86%match
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    🇺🇸SheridanWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 357 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, apple

    84%match
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    🇺🇸Great FallsMontana, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 352 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, hemp, sunflower

    84%match
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    🇨🇦CalgaryAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 421 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, blueberry

    84%match
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    🇺🇸GilletteWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 387 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, sunflower

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Rock SpringsWyoming, United States

    Zone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 7.0 in rainZone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 178 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    81%match
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    🇺🇸CondaIdaho, United States

    Zone 5b · 88 frost-free days · 3,778 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5b · 88 frost-free days · 3,778 chill hours · 412 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇺🇸CasperWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 274 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, sunflower

    75%match
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    🇨🇦Medicine HatAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 337 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, hemp, blueberry

    75%match
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    🇺🇸Idaho FallsIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, apple

    75%match
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    🇺🇸MissoulaMontana, United States

    Zone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 344 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, apple

    74%match
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    🇰🇬KarakolIssyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

    Zone 6a · 150 frost-free days · 3,588 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 6a · 150 frost-free days · 3,588 chill hours · 473 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, hops, hemp

    74%match
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    🇺🇸DickinsonNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, hops

    69%match
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    🇰🇬NarynNaryn Region, Kyrgyzstan

    Zone 4b · 130 frost-free days · 3,706 chill hours · 9.3 in rainZone 4b · 130 frost-free days · 3,706 chill hours · 236 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, apple, hemp

    68%match
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    🇺🇸CheyenneWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 342 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, hops, sunflower

    67%match
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    🇺🇸BillingsMontana, United States

    Zone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 326 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, hops

    66%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.