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Land with a climate like Elkhart

🇺🇸Elkhart, Indiana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Elkhart are Fort Wayne, United States (99% match), Michigan City and Marion. About 803,000 sq mi of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Elkhart are Fort Wayne, United States (99% match), Michigan City and Marion. About 2.1 million km² of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 3,005 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 3,005 chill hours · 963 mm rain

What grows in Elkhart →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    50k sq mi129k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Calumet City (99), Dolton (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    44k sq mi113k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bettendorf (97), Muscatine (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marion (99), Lima (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (94), Labinsk (92)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (92), Gornji Milanovac (91)

  6. 6

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    18k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (99), Tecumseh (99)

  7. 7

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apatin (86), Bačka Topola (85)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yegorlykskaya (85), Zernograd (84)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Suvorovskaya (88), Svobody (86)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuzla (90), Lukavac (89)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bila Tserkva (84), Vasylkiv (83)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Donetsk, Ukraine

    4,800 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dokuchayevsk (80), Ilovays’k (80)

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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    🇺🇸Fort WayneIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 909 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Michigan CityIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,009 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,009 chill hours · 1,003 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸FindlayOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸SidneyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 951 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸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 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸MarysvilleOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,930 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,930 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸SanduskyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸TiffinOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 923 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸BloomingtonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 973 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KokomoIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸ChicagoIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,006 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,006 chill hours · 991 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸New PhiladelphiaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,894 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,894 chill hours · 989 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AuroraIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 1,005 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MansfieldOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 994 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MuncieIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸DetroitMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 865 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 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.