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Land with a climate like Clay

🇺🇸Clay, New York, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Clay are Back Mountain, United States (99% match), Binghamton and Utica. About 618,000 sq mi of land in 25 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ontario, Canada, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Clay are Back Mountain, United States (99% match), Binghamton and Utica. About 1.6 million km² of land in 25 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ontario, Canada, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

What grows in Clay →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    46k sq mi118k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Quinte West (99), Prince Edward (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Binghamton (99), Utica (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    41k sq mi105k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashtabula (98), Mayfield Heights (98)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    40k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holland (98), Grandville (97)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwamizawa (94), Ebetsu (93)

  6. 6

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (84), Goražde (81)

  7. 7

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (87), Gornji Milanovac (79)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Traunstein (84), Bad Tölz (84)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stebnyk (87), Drohobych (87)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takizawa (91), Hachimantai (91)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Aomori, Japan

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nanaku (87), Mutsu (87)

  12. 12

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    3,600 sq mi9,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (82), Labinsk (77)

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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    🇺🇸Back MountainPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 1,014 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸BinghamtonNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,162 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,162 chill hours · 984 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸UticaNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 1,088 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇦CobourgOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 884 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸PortlandMaine, United States

    Zone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AmsterdamNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,314 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,314 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸BurlingtonVermont, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,275 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,275 chill hours · 841 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸AshtabulaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸AlbanyNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,117 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,117 chill hours · 978 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦KingstonOntario, Canada

    Zone 6a · 176 frost-free days · 3,383 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6a · 176 frost-free days · 3,383 chill hours · 982 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇦BellevilleOntario, Canada

    Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,418 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,418 chill hours · 918 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸HazletonPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 1,173 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸QueensburyNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸DoverNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,203 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,203 chill hours · 1,106 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸EriePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 1,053 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸BuffaloNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 951 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸WatertownNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 1,085 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸PittsfieldMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 1,079 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸RochesterNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 864 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    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.