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Land with a climate like Donetsk, Russia

🇷🇺Donetsk, Rostov, Russia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Donetsk, Russia are Alchevsk, Ukraine (99% match), Ilovays’k and Dokuchayevsk. About 641,000 sq mi of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Rostov, Russia and Stavropol Kray, Russia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Donetsk, Russia are Alchevsk, Ukraine (99% match), Ilovays’k and Dokuchayevsk. About 1.7 million km² of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Rostov, Russia and Stavropol Kray, Russia.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 177 frost-free days · 3,363 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 177 frost-free days · 3,363 chill hours · 464 mm rain

What grows in Donetsk, Russia →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇷🇺Volgograd Oblast, Russia

    41k sq mi106k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kotel’nikovo (97), Surovikino (97)

  2. 2

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    32k sq mi82k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Morozovsk (99), Persianovka (98)

  3. 3

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    28k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ipatovo (96), Krasnogvardeyskoye (96)

  4. 4

    🇺🇦Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shakhtarske (99), Pavlohrad (99)

  5. 5

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Obukhiv (95), Bila Tserkva (95)

  6. 6

    🇺🇦Kharkiv, Ukraine

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Slobozhanske (99), Lozova (99)

  7. 7

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    9,900 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Homyel' (92), Dobrush (88)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pontiac (86), Farmington Hills (86)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Łódź (85), Pabianice (83)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Mazovia, Poland

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Radom (89), Ostrołęka (84)

  11. 11

    🇧🇾Brest, Belarus

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brest (86), Pinsk (84)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Lublin, Poland

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lublin (85), Lubartów (84)

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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    🇺🇦AlchevskLuhansk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,389 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,389 chill hours · 513 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦Ilovays’kDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 181 frost-free days · 3,298 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7a · 181 frost-free days · 3,298 chill hours · 500 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇦DokuchayevskDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,290 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,290 chill hours · 487 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇦ShakhtarskDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 182 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7a · 182 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 508 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇦LozovaKharkiv, Ukraine

    Zone 6b · 174 frost-free days · 3,448 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6b · 174 frost-free days · 3,448 chill hours · 507 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇦KharkivUkraine

    Zone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,427 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,427 chill hours · 515 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦DonetskUkraine

    Zone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 3,320 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 3,320 chill hours · 494 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇦KostyantynivkaDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 178 frost-free days · 3,362 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 178 frost-free days · 3,362 chill hours · 482 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇷🇺MorozovskRostov, Russia

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 414 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇦ZlatopilKharkiv, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 173 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 173 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 484 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇦ShakhtarskeDnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,345 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,345 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇦KramatorskDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 176 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦PokrovskDonetsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 174 frost-free days · 3,386 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 174 frost-free days · 3,386 chill hours · 484 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦SiverskodonetskLuhansk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 178 frost-free days · 3,367 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7a · 178 frost-free days · 3,367 chill hours · 504 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦PavlohradDnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 458 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦BerestynKharkiv, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 173 frost-free days · 3,490 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 173 frost-free days · 3,490 chill hours · 483 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦StarobilskLuhansk, Ukraine

    Zone 6b · 169 frost-free days · 3,475 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 6b · 169 frost-free days · 3,475 chill hours · 495 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦SvatoveLuhansk, Ukraine

    Zone 6b · 169 frost-free days · 3,477 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 6b · 169 frost-free days · 3,477 chill hours · 489 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦TokmakZaporizhzhia, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,161 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,161 chill hours · 451 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇦NovoukrayinkaKirovohrad, Ukraine

    Zone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 3,147 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 7a · 185 frost-free days · 3,147 chill hours · 488 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%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.