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Land with a climate like Cham, Switzerland

🇨🇭Cham, Zug, Switzerland

The towns with the closest growing climate to Cham, Switzerland are Freiburg, Germany (99% match), Grenchen and Dornbirn. About 693,000 sq mi of land in 34 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Bavaria, Germany and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Cham, Switzerland are Freiburg, Germany (99% match), Grenchen and Dornbirn. About 1.8 million km² of land in 34 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Bavaria, Germany and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,676 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,676 chill hours · 1,191 mm rain

What grows in Cham, Switzerland →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    34k sq mi88k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mentor (86), Painesville (86)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    27k sq mi69k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lindau (99), Bruckmühl (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Thonon-les-Bains (99), Oyonnax (99)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (93), Limoges (92)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (97), Épinal (97)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holzminden (95), Bad Pyrmont (94)

  7. 7

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cheltenham (86), Farnham (86)

  8. 8

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (93), Gornji Milanovac (92)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Erie (86), Johnstown (83)

  10. 10

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waldkirch (99), Freiburg (99)

  11. 11

    🇺🇸Indiana, United States

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Michigan City (84), South Bend (83)

  12. 12

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuzla (94), Cazin (93)

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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    🇩🇪FreiburgBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,650 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,650 chill hours · 950 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇭GrenchenSolothurn, Switzerland

    Zone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,802 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,802 chill hours · 984 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇦🇹DornbirnVorarlberg, Austria

    Zone 8a · 213 frost-free days · 2,796 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 213 frost-free days · 2,796 chill hours · 1,393 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪LörrachBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,577 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,577 chill hours · 865 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, fig

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪KonstanzBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,765 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,765 chill hours · 874 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇭BernSwitzerland

    Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,884 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,884 chill hours · 1,038 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
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    🇩🇪RosenheimBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 2,905 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 2,905 chill hours · 1,090 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇫🇷BelfortBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 982 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇦🇹SalzburgAustria

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,867 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,867 chill hours · 1,214 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇭LausanneVaud, Switzerland

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,610 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,610 chill hours · 1,162 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇩🇪PforzheimBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷AnnemasseAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 214 frost-free days · 2,542 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 214 frost-free days · 2,542 chill hours · 946 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪OffenburgBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,470 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,470 chill hours · 850 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, fig

    98%match
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    🇫🇷BesançonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 1,094 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇸🇮Novo MestoUrban Municipality of Novo Mesto, Slovenia

    Zone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,576 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,576 chill hours · 1,122 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    98%match
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    🇫🇷VesoulBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 972 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, fig

    98%match
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    🇸🇮CeljeUrban Municipality of Celje, Slovenia

    Zone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 1,162 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇩🇪MunichBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,814 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8a · 206 frost-free days · 2,814 chill hours · 941 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
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    🇸🇮LjubljanaSlovenia

    Zone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,720 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 205 frost-free days · 2,720 chill hours · 1,404 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇫🇷ÉpinalGrand Est, France

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,721 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,721 chill hours · 895 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    97%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.