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Land with a climate like Caen

🇫🇷Caen, Normandy, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Caen are Fougères, France (99% match), Rennes and Rouen. About 438,000 sq mi of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Caen are Fougères, France (99% match), Rennes and Rouen. About 1.1 million km² of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,427 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,427 chill hours · 758 mm rain

What grows in Caen →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    52k sq mi135k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Southampton (99), Gosport (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    35k sq mi91k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bressuire (96), Niort (96)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    20k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Dizier (95), Vitry-le-François (95)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rinteln (92), Osnabrück (92)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sens (94), Auxerre (93)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Krefeld (97), Kamp-Lintfort (97)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pinneberg (87), Halstenbek (87)

  8. 8

    🇦🇺Tasmania, Australia

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hobart (89), Devonport (80)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Carlow (92), Dublin (92)

  10. 10

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    7,000 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport (96), Cardiff (96)

  11. 11

    🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oleiros (84), Carballo (83)

  12. 12

    🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kortrijk (99), Zwevegem (99)

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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    🇫🇷FougèresBrittany, France

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,653 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,653 chill hours · 783 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷RennesBrittany, France

    Zone 9a · 267 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 267 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 759 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷RouenNormandy, France

    Zone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 719 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧SouthamptonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 270 frost-free days · 1,595 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 270 frost-free days · 1,595 chill hours · 802 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇫🇷Saint-MaloBrittany, France

    Zone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 756 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇫🇷DieppeNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 739 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷LavalPays de la Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,547 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,547 chill hours · 766 mm rain

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

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇫🇷AbbevilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,919 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,919 chill hours · 751 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷DunkirkHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 702 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷PontivyBrittany, France

    Zone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 1,250 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 1,250 chill hours · 964 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇧PooleEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,777 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,777 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷AlençonNormandy, France

    Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 1,937 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 1,937 chill hours · 721 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷Saint-BrieucBrittany, France

    Zone 9b · 299 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 299 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 930 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷FécampNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 295 frost-free days · 1,489 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 295 frost-free days · 1,489 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷RoubaixHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,084 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,084 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇫🇷LorientBrittany, France

    Zone 9b · 321 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 321 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 952 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇫🇷AmiensHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 674 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷ÉvreuxNormandy, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,998 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,998 chill hours · 654 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷BeauvaisHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,075 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,075 chill hours · 672 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇬🇧ExeterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 900 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    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.