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Land with a climate like Columbus, Nebraska

🇺🇸Columbus, Nebraska, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Columbus, Nebraska are Grand Island, United States (99% match), Omaha and Lincoln. About 249,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Nebraska, United States and Kansas, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Columbus, Nebraska are Grand Island, United States (99% match), Omaha and Lincoln. About 644,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Nebraska, United States and Kansas, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 691 mm rain

What grows in Columbus, Nebraska →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Council Bluffs (99), Sioux City (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Nebraska, United States

    33k sq mi86k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Grand Island (99), La Vista (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Kansas, United States

    31k sq mi80k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hays (87), Manhattan (86)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    3,200 sq mi8,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pyatigorsk (83), Zheleznovodsk (83)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Otradnaya (82), Armavir (78)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Ingushetiya Republic, Russia

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nesterovskaya (83), Troitskaya (83)

  7. 7

    🇷🇴Arges, Romania

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mioveni (80), Piteşti (79)

  8. 8

    🇦🇿Zaqatala District, Azerbaijan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zaqatala (54)

  9. 9

    🇷🇴Vâlcea County, Romania

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Râmnicu Vâlcea (77), Drăgăşani (76)

  10. 10

    🇷🇴Dâmbovița County, Romania

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Găeşti (80), Moreni (78)

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

    🇺🇸Grand IslandNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 632 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸OmahaNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 770 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸LincolnNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 732 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸Sioux CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸KearneyNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Des MoinesIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 3,046 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 3,046 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸NewtonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸Cedar RapidsIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 929 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸OttumwaIowa, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,948 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,948 chill hours · 900 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸DavenportIowa, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,974 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,974 chill hours · 919 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸AmesIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 859 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸MolineIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 930 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸MitchellSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    91%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸BurlingtonIowa, United States

    Zone 6b · 193 frost-free days · 2,880 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 193 frost-free days · 2,880 chill hours · 904 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    90%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸ClintonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸DubuqueIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 883 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    89%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸Saint JosephMissouri, United States

    Zone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 867 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    89%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸MacombIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,906 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,906 chill hours · 942 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇺🇸MarshalltownIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 884 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇺🇸DixonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 970 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    88%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.