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Land with a climate like Challans

🇫🇷Challans, Pays de la Loire, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Challans are La Rochelle, France (99% match), Saintes and Niort. About 411,000 sq mi of land in 26 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, England, United Kingdom and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Challans are La Rochelle, France (99% match), Saintes and Niort. About 1.1 million km² of land in 26 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, England, United Kingdom and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 292 frost-free days · 1,205 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9b · 292 frost-free days · 1,205 chill hours · 788 mm rain

What grows in Challans →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    35k sq mi92k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rochefort (99), Royan (99)

  2. 2

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Southampton (92), Gosport (92)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Dizier (92), Vitry-le-François (91)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Occitanie, France

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Muret (94), Cahors (93)

  5. 5

    🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mar del Plata (87), Miramar (87)

  6. 6

    🇦🇺Victoria, Australia

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Warrnambool (86), Frankston East (85)

  7. 7

    🇪🇸Galicia, Spain

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oleiros (91), Cambre (90)

  8. 8

    🇦🇺Tasmania, Australia

    9,800 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hobart (90), Devonport (88)

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    🇧🇪Flanders, Belgium

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Harelbeke (90), Kortrijk (90)

  10. 10

    🇳🇿Wellington Region, New Zealand

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Masterton (92), Wellington (86)

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    🇳🇿Canterbury, New Zealand

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Christchurch (88), Rangiora (87)

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    🇳🇿Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Whanganui (92), Levin (88)

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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    🇫🇷La RochelleNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 1,145 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 1,145 chill hours · 769 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷SaintesNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,326 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,326 chill hours · 839 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    99%match
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    🇫🇷NiortNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 264 frost-free days · 1,431 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 264 frost-free days · 1,431 chill hours · 816 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇫🇷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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇫🇷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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇫🇷CholetPays de la Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 796 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷La Teste-de-BuchNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,191 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,191 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇫🇷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 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷AngersPays de la Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,496 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,496 chill hours · 734 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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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 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷SaumurPays de la Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,570 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,570 chill hours · 697 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷AngoulêmeNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,403 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 1,403 chill hours · 809 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    98%match
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    🇫🇷VannesBrittany, France

    Zone 10a · 334 frost-free days · 857 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 10a · 334 frost-free days · 857 chill hours · 901 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    98%match
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    🇫🇷Le MansPays de la Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,633 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,633 chill hours · 690 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷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 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷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 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷ToursCentre-Val de Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 668 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇫🇷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 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    96%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 22 great-fit crops

    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.