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Land with a climate like Charleston, West Virginia

🇺🇸Charleston, West Virginia, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Charleston, West Virginia are Lexington, United States (99% match), Frankfort and Portsmouth. About 591,000 sq mi of land in 19 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Charleston, West Virginia are Lexington, United States (99% match), Frankfort and Portsmouth. About 1.5 million km² of land in 19 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 1,139 mm rain

What grows in Charleston, West Virginia →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    61k sq mi157k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Farmington (98), Arnold (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    47k sq mi122k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bristol (99), Kingsport (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    39k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bristol (99), Front Royal (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (92), Khadyzhensk (91)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (89), Lazarevac (87)

  6. 6

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallarate (92), Cassano Magnago (91)

  7. 7

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    3,800 sq mi9,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nova Pazova (84), Stara Pazova (84)

  8. 8

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,400 sq mi8,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prijedor (92), Banja Luka (90)

  9. 9

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    3,100 sq mi8,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montebelluna (88), Conegliano (87)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bosanska Krupa (89), Velika Kladuša (89)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Damyang (82), Jangseong (82)

  12. 12

    🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

    1,900 sq mi4,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Verbania (90), Pallanza-Intra-Suna (90)

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

  1. 1

    🇺🇸LexingtonKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 217 frost-free days · 2,290 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7b · 217 frost-free days · 2,290 chill hours · 1,220 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸FrankfortKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 1,188 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸PortsmouthOhio, United States

    Zone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,476 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,476 chill hours · 1,104 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸DanvilleKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 2,204 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 2,204 chill hours · 1,279 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MeadsKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 193 frost-free days · 2,477 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7b · 193 frost-free days · 2,477 chill hours · 1,131 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸ElizabethtownKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 1,286 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Johnson CityTennessee, United States

    Zone 7b · 216 frost-free days · 2,065 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 216 frost-free days · 2,065 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸ParkersburgWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 1,074 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸VinelandNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 1,114 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸JasperIndiana, United States

    Zone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,407 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,407 chill hours · 1,181 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸CincinnatiOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 1,103 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸EastonMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 222 frost-free days · 2,131 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 222 frost-free days · 2,131 chill hours · 1,179 mm rain

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

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸GreenevilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 1,996 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 1,996 chill hours · 1,085 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸CulpeperVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,223 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,223 chill hours · 1,092 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸WinchesterVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 972 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸DoverDelaware, United States

    Zone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,161 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,161 chill hours · 1,180 mm rain

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

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸LeesburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,329 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,329 chill hours · 1,040 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸MorristownTennessee, United States

    Zone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 1,976 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 1,976 chill hours · 1,202 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸HagerstownMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 985 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸LynchburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,964 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,964 chill hours · 1,051 mm rain

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

    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.