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Land with a climate like Dortmund

🇩🇪Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Dortmund are Herford, Germany (99% match), Bielefeld and Osnabrück. About 1.6 million km² (637,000 sq mi) of land in 31 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,735 chill hours · 35 in (886 mm) rain

What grows in Dortmund →
Climate match≤5075100Uncolored land: under 50%DortmundClosest

Tap the map for the score at any spot. Each square is a 28 km (17 mile) grid cell.

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    142k km² (55k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Cheltenham (98), Aldershot (98)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    66k km² (25k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Großostheim (99), Alzenau in Unterfranken (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    55k km² (21k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Sarreguemines (99), Charleville-Mézières (99)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    51k km² (20k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Osnabrück (99), Rinteln (99)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    50k km² (19k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Annemasse (93), Thonon-les-Bains (92)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    50k km² (19k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (90), Limoges (90)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    37k km² (14k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Lohmar (99), Hennef (Sieg) (99)

  8. 8

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    31k km² (12k sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Rawicz (86), Nowy Tomyśl (86)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    25k km² (9,600 sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Świdwin (93), Stargard (91)

  10. 10

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    25k km² (9,500 sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Carlow (90), Rathfarnham (89)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Pomerania, Poland

    21k km² (8,200 sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Gdańsk (90), Gdynia (89)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    21k km² (8,100 sq mi) matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (94), Herning (92)

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

    🇩🇪HerfordNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,856 chill hours · 32 in (815 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇩🇪BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,882 chill hours · 33 in (850 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪OsnabrückLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,874 chill hours · 33 in (844 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,672 chill hours · 34 in (876 mm) rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪BonnNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 28 in (722 mm) rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇩🇪HamburgGermany

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,938 chill hours · 31 in (776 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇩🇪NienburgLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 210 frost-free days · 2,963 chill hours · 28 in (722 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪OldenburgLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,961 chill hours · 31 in (776 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇳🇱EindhovenNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,605 chill hours · 32 in (801 mm) rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇩🇪KoblenzRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,699 chill hours · 27 in (693 mm) rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇧🇪HasseltFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,536 chill hours · 32 in (801 mm) rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪TrierRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,773 chill hours · 30 in (764 mm) rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇧🇪CharleroiWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,546 chill hours · 32 in (806 mm) rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇧🇪DeurneFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,440 chill hours · 32 in (815 mm) rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇩🇪HannoverLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,876 chill hours · 26 in (669 mm) rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇳🇱RoermondLimburg, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,545 chill hours · 29 in (748 mm) rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇧🇪AntwerpFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,376 chill hours · 32 in (811 mm) rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇩🇪MönchengladbachNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,564 chill hours · 30 in (753 mm) rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron

    99%match
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    🇳🇱TilburgNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 32 in (820 mm) rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇧🇪SeraingWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,583 chill hours · 34 in (857 mm) rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    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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