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Land with a climate like Chapel Hill

🇺🇸Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Chapel Hill are Roanoke Rapids, United States (99% match), Concord and Henderson. About 562,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Chapel Hill are Roanoke Rapids, United States (99% match), Concord and Henderson. About 1.5 million km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,578 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,578 chill hours · 1,160 mm rain

What grows in Chapel Hill →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    50k sq mi129k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shelby (99), Roanoke Rapids (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fayetteville (98), Rogers (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    46k sq mi120k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maryville (99), Farragut (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (83), Wuyang (80)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    3,800 sq mi10,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guangshui (76), Macheng (73)

  6. 6

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,600 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kutaisi (90), Zestaponi (89)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nishitawara (84), Yashiro (83)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (79), Deqing (75)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Tottori, Japan

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kurayoshi (83), Yabase (83)

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (88), Poti (70)

  11. 11

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    800 sq mi2,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montebelluna (83), Montecchio Maggiore-Alte Ceccato (82)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Shimane, Japan

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matsue (83), Hiratachō (83)

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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    🇺🇸Roanoke RapidsNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 1,148 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, lavender

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸ConcordNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 1,117 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸HendersonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, rice

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸Rocky MountNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸GastoniaNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 1,152 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸PinehurstNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,164 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, rice

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸HickoryNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,193 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸DanvilleVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 1,113 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸StatesvilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 1,121 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸MonroeNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸TuckahoeVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 1,133 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, lavender, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸SpartanburgSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,247 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸KnoxvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 1,236 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸Winston-SalemNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 1,078 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
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    🇺🇸RichmondVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,139 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸GreenvilleSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 1,337 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸WilliamsburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,616 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,616 chill hours · 1,263 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸HendersonvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,290 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Rock HillSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,307 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,307 chill hours · 1,181 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MurfreesboroTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,676 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,676 chill hours · 1,420 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, tea

    99%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.