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Land with a climate like Forest

🇧🇪Forest, Brussels Capital, Belgium

The towns with the closest growing climate to Forest are Venlo, The Netherlands (99% match), Lille and Valenciennes. About 576,000 sq mi of land in 30 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Forest are Venlo, The Netherlands (99% match), Lille and Valenciennes. About 1.5 million km² of land in 30 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,094 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,094 chill hours · 793 mm rain

What grows in Forest →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    56k sq mi145k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Croydon (99), Sutton (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    31k sq mi79k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (94), Limoges (93)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alzenau in Unterfranken (99), Großostheim (98)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

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

  5. 5

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rinteln (99), Osnabrück (99)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sens (96), Auxerre (95)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kaarst (99), Kamp-Lintfort (99)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    9,700 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dublin (93), Rathfarnham (93)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kołobrzeg (90), Gryfice (88)

  10. 10

    🇩🇰South Denmark, Denmark

    7,800 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Odense (94), Nyborg (91)

  11. 11

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport (97), Cardiff (96)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    6,800 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (92), Herning (88)

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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    🇳🇱VenloLimburg, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 751 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷LilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 740 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷ValenciennesHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 741 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪KölnNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,111 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,111 chill hours · 783 mm rain

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇳🇱EindhovenNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 801 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇧🇪LiègeWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,335 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,335 chill hours · 859 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇳🇱TilburgNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇧🇪HelchterenFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,422 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,422 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇳🇱RoosendaalNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,270 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,270 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇩🇪EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,339 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,339 chill hours · 949 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇩🇪AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇳🇱NijmegenGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇫🇷AmiensHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,003 chill hours · 674 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷ArrasHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,172 chill hours · 705 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧LondonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 255 frost-free days · 1,770 chill hours · 670 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
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    🇫🇷RouenNormandy, France

    Zone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,684 chill hours · 719 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇩🇪BocholtNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 765 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧GloucesterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪OsnabrückLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪GüterslohNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 787 mm rain

    Shares 18 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.