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Land with a climate like Calais

🇫🇷Calais, Hauts-de-France, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Calais are Dieppe, France (99% match), Middelburg and Lisieux. About 351,000 sq mi of land in 19 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Calais are Dieppe, France (99% match), Middelburg and Lisieux. About 910,000 km² of land in 19 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,705 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,705 chill hours · 620 mm rain

What grows in Calais →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    53k sq mi138k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Great Yarmouth (99), Hastings (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Épernay (89), Reims (88)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Norden (95), Langen (94)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bressuire (87), La Rochelle (86)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Brittany, France

    16k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Malo (97), Fougères (96)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wassenberg (94), Xanten (94)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Neustadt in Holstein (89), Eutin (87)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dublin (94), Dún Laoghaire (93)

  9. 9

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rhyl (95), Prestatyn (95)

  10. 10

    🇩🇰South Denmark, Denmark

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nyborg (92), Esbjerg (90)

  11. 11

    🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Knokke-Heist (99), Blankenberge (99)

  12. 12

    🇧🇪Wallonia, Belgium

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tournai (96), Rixensart (95)

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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    🇫🇷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 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇱MiddelburgZeeland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,992 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,992 chill hours · 791 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), kiwifruit

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷LisieuxNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,603 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,603 chill hours · 731 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧Southend-on-SeaEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 555 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇫🇷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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇫🇷Le HavreNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,196 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,196 chill hours · 722 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, sunflower, kiwifruit

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇧🇪BruggeFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 828 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇬🇧EastbourneEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 280 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9b · 280 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷CaenNormandy, France

    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

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, sunflower

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷Saint-LôNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,507 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,507 chill hours · 806 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, kiwifruit

    98%match
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    🇫🇷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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron, sunflower

    98%match
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    🇬🇧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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇬🇧NorwichEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    97%match
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    🇫🇷ArrasHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 705 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇫🇷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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, sunflower

    97%match
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    🇬🇧IpswichEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,142 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,142 chill hours · 615 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇬🇧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 16 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇬🇧LondonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 670 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, saffron

    97%match
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    🇬🇧OxfordEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,000 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,000 chill hours · 658 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇬🇧GloucesterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    96%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.