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Land with a climate like Folkestone

🇬🇧Folkestone, England, United Kingdom

The towns with the closest growing climate to Folkestone are Seaford, United Kingdom (99% match), Brighton and Abbeville. About 436,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Folkestone are Seaford, United Kingdom (99% match), Brighton and Abbeville. About 1.1 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 248 frost-free days · 2,051 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 248 frost-free days · 2,051 chill hours · 681 mm rain

What grows in Folkestone →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    59k sq mi152k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Walton-on-the-Naze (99), Felixstowe (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sedan (93), Charleville-Mézières (93)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Norden (98), Emden (98)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Brittany, France

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fougères (96), Vitré (95)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Centre-Val de Loire, France

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dreux (94), Chartres (92)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Emmerich (97), Kleve (97)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Brandenburg, Germany

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wittenberge (86), Neuruppin (84)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dún Laoghaire (98), Dublin (98)

  9. 9

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayr (93), Saint Andrews (92)

  10. 10

    🇮🇪Munster, Ireland

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waterford (97), Limerick (94)

  11. 11

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prestatyn (99), Rhyl (99)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (91), Skive (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

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    🇬🇧SeafordEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,843 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,843 chill hours · 837 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇬🇧BrightonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,046 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,046 chill hours · 834 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷AbbevilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,919 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 1,919 chill hours · 751 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧PortsmouthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 269 frost-free days · 1,691 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9b · 269 frost-free days · 1,691 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇬🇧LiverpoolEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,114 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,114 chill hours · 780 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇬🇧BournemouthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,887 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,887 chill hours · 881 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇧King's LynnEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 643 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇬🇧IpswichEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,142 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,142 chill hours · 615 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷DieppeNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9b · 277 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 739 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷DunkirkHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 271 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 702 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, saffron

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇧SkegnessEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,226 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,226 chill hours · 608 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷LisieuxNormandy, France

    Zone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,603 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,603 chill hours · 731 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇬🇧BristolEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 262 frost-free days · 1,816 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 262 frost-free days · 1,816 chill hours · 893 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    99%match
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    🇧🇪BruggeFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 828 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇳🇱LelystadFlevoland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,510 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,510 chill hours · 803 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    98%match
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    🇬🇧BowthorpeEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,117 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,117 chill hours · 664 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇮🇪DublinLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 251 frost-free days · 1,931 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 251 frost-free days · 1,931 chill hours · 761 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇬🇧Kingston upon HullEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 680 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇳🇱LeeuwardenFriesland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,625 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,625 chill hours · 840 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    98%match
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    🇬🇧TauntonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,717 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,717 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower

    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.