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Land with a climate like Columbus, Ohio

🇺🇸Columbus, Ohio, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Columbus, Ohio are Dayton, United States (99% match), Decatur and Zanesville. About 692,000 sq mi of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Columbus, Ohio are Dayton, United States (99% match), Decatur and Zanesville. About 1.8 million km² of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 981 mm rain

What grows in Columbus, Ohio →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    61k sq mi159k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hannibal (99), Wentzville (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    50k sq mi130k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Decatur (99), Springfield (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    42k sq mi108k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dayton (99), Riverside (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    24k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Labinsk (96), Kurganinsk (95)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (93), Valjevo (93)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nova Pazova (91), Ruma (91)

  7. 7

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallarate (90), Cassano Magnago (89)

  8. 8

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lukavac (92), Gradačac (92)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prijedor (92), Doboj (92)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

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

    For example Novoaleksandrovsk (85), Nevinnomyssk (84)

  11. 11

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    3,100 sq mi8,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (95), Tecumseh (93)

  12. 12

    🇭🇺Pest County, Hungary

    3,000 sq mi7,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Budaörs (83), Fót (82)

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

    🇺🇸DaytonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸DecaturIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 1,034 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸ZanesvilleOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 1,028 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸SpringfieldIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 946 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MorgantownWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 1,056 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸AthensOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,672 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,672 chill hours · 1,062 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸JacksonvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 979 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸ErlangerKentucky, United States

    Zone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 1,122 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸PittsburghPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸WheelingWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 974 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸AllentownPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,745 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,745 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸ClevelandOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,878 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,878 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸ReadingPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 1,097 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸ColumbusIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 1,096 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸ClarksburgWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 2,708 chill hours · 1,104 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸LancasterPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 1,035 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pecan

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸LimaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 912 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%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.