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Land with a climate like Forest Lake

🇺🇸Forest Lake, Minnesota, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Forest Lake are Eau Claire, United States (99% match), Willmar and Red Wing. About 310,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Wisconsin, United States, Iowa, United States and Minnesota, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Forest Lake are Eau Claire, United States (99% match), Willmar and Red Wing. About 802,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Wisconsin, United States, Iowa, United States and Minnesota, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 738 mm rain

What grows in Forest Lake →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Menomonie (99), Eau Claire (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    38k sq mi98k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mason City (96), Cedar Falls (94)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    37k sq mi95k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Willmar (99), Northfield (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ottawa (89), Ottawa South (89)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (88), Candiac (88)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Saratov Oblast, Russia

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Balashov (80), Kalininsk (78)

  7. 7

    🇷🇺Lipetsk Oblast, Russia

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gryazi (80), Usman’ (80)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Volgograd Oblast, Russia

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yelan’ (80), Zhirnovsk (76)

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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    🇺🇸Eau ClaireWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,447 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,447 chill hours · 795 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸WillmarMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 743 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸Red WingMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 775 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸OwatonnaMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 162 frost-free days · 3,491 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 5b · 162 frost-free days · 3,491 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MankatoMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,449 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,449 chill hours · 793 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸RochesterMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸AustinMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 821 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸WausauWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 796 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸Stevens PointWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 158 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 158 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 797 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸Saint CloudMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 709 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸Sioux FallsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 633 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸Mason CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,411 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,411 chill hours · 856 mm rain

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

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸BrookingsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸AppletonWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 790 mm rain

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

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸La CrosseWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,324 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,324 chill hours · 790 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇺🇸MarshfieldWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5a · 150 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 5a · 150 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇺🇸Fond du LacWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 796 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach

    95%match
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    🇺🇸Green BayWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 751 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, walnut

    95%match
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    🇺🇸Beaver DamWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 838 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, walnut

    94%match
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    🇺🇸WaterlooIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,254 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,254 chill hours · 901 mm rain

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

    93%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.