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Land with a climate like Crystal Lake

🇺🇸Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Crystal Lake are Lansing, United States (99% match), Jackson and Adrian. About 596,000 sq mi of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and New York, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Crystal Lake are Lansing, United States (99% match), Jackson and Adrian. About 1.5 million km² of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and New York, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 960 mm rain

What grows in Crystal Lake →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (99), Clinton (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    44k sq mi113k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Homer Glen (99), Goodings Grove (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    40k sq mi104k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ithaca (98), Vestal (98)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    31k sq mi80k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaSalle (97), Chatham (97)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    9,100 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (87), Bor (82)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Otradnaya (86), Mostovskoy (86)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    4,400 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (83), Bila Tserkva (82)

  8. 8

    🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

    3,700 sq mi9,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bochnia (83), Tarnów (83)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

    3,100 sq mi8,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kolomyia (84), Nadvirna (83)

  10. 10

    🇷🇴Hunedoara County, Romania

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

    For example Hunedoara (84), Orăştie (83)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (80), Zhmerynka (80)

  12. 12

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Svobody (87), Suvorovskaya (87)

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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    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸FlintMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 774 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Ann ArborMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 862 mm rain

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

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸SaginawMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 786 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸JanesvilleWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 887 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸FreeportIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 889 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KankakeeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%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

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸JolietIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,971 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,971 chill hours · 986 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

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

    98%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸HammondIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇺🇸DefianceOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 872 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    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.