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Land with a climate like Elkton

🇺🇸Elkton, Maryland, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Elkton are Columbia, United States (99% match), Trenton and Frederick. About 552,000 sq mi of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Elkton are Columbia, United States (99% match), Trenton and Frederick. About 1.4 million km² of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,416 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,416 chill hours · 1,150 mm rain

What grows in Elkton →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    60k sq mi155k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fort Leonard Wood (97), Rolla (97)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    42k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Johnson City (96), Bristol (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Leesburg (99), Ashburn (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (93), Khadyzhensk (92)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jangseong (84), Damyang (84)

  6. 6

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

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

    For example Varese (90), Malnate (90)

  7. 7

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montebelluna (88), Bassano del Grappa (86)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeongeup (84), Koch'ang (84)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aizu-Wakamatsu (93), Motomiya (92)

  10. 10

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

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

    For example Loznica (85), Lazarevac (84)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    2,400 sq mi6,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasayama (89), Tamba-Sasayama (89)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Gifu, Japan

    2,400 sq mi6,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nakatsugawa (90), Gero (90)

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

    🇺🇸ColumbiaMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸TrentonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,449 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,449 chill hours · 1,174 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸FrederickMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,402 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,402 chill hours · 969 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸EdisonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 1,232 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸New York CityNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 2,440 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 2,440 chill hours · 1,203 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸LansdalePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,630 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,630 chill hours · 1,115 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸LakewoodNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 1,173 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸CulpeperVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,223 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,223 chill hours · 1,092 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸AnnapolisMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 223 frost-free days · 2,161 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 223 frost-free days · 2,161 chill hours · 1,160 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸WaldorfMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 221 frost-free days · 2,089 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 221 frost-free days · 2,089 chill hours · 1,111 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸WinchesterVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 972 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸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 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸EastonMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 222 frost-free days · 2,131 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 222 frost-free days · 2,131 chill hours · 1,179 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸HarrisburgPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,607 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,607 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸West BabylonNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 212 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7b · 212 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 1,078 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸BridgeportConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 1,198 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸ChambersburgPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 193 frost-free days · 2,720 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 193 frost-free days · 2,720 chill hours · 1,021 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸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 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸New CityNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,717 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,717 chill hours · 1,208 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸HarrisonburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,471 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,471 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 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.