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Land with a climate like Chesapeake

🇺🇸Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Chesapeake are Greenville, United States (99% match), Raleigh and New Bern. About 768,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Mississippi, United States, North Carolina, United States and Arkansas, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Chesapeake are Greenville, United States (99% match), Raleigh and New Bern. About 2.0 million km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Mississippi, United States, North Carolina, United States and Arkansas, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,303 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,303 chill hours · 1,268 mm rain

What grows in Chesapeake →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Mississippi, United States

    50k sq mi131k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Horn Lake (96), Hernando (96)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    48k sq mi125k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Goldsboro (99), Fort Bragg (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Memphis (96), Jacksonville (95)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    45k sq mi116k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (88), Qingquan (87)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (92), Hefei (90)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    33k sq mi86k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (93), Xiaoshan (92)

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    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yamaguchi (92), Hōfu (92)

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    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ono (94), Higashinozoe (94)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    3,700 sq mi9,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Isahaya (88), Ōmura (87)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeju City (90), Tallang-dong (88)

  11. 11

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (91), Poti (82)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,300 sq mi3,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Samtredia (94), Kutaisi (92)

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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    🇺🇸GreenvilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,235 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,235 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸RaleighNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 1,161 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸New BernNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,056 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,056 chill hours · 1,443 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, citrus

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸FayettevilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 1,184 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, almond

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AtlantaGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,117 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,117 chill hours · 1,319 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, tea

    98%match
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    🇺🇸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 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸JacksonvilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,012 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,012 chill hours · 1,449 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, tea

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸LawrencevilleGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 1,360 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸LaurinburgNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,249 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,249 chill hours · 1,174 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, olive

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸CharlotteNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,317 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,317 chill hours · 1,117 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, olive

    97%match
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    🇺🇸SanfordNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 1,158 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸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 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸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 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    97%match
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    🇺🇸LumbertonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,177 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,177 chill hours · 1,238 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    97%match
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    🇺🇸MiltonGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,359 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,359 chill hours · 1,428 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    97%match
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    🇺🇸AlbemarleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,463 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,463 chill hours · 1,153 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    97%match
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    🇺🇸McDonoughGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,134 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,134 chill hours · 1,306 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, tea

    97%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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    97%match
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    🇺🇸AthensGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 1,264 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, olive

    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.