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Land with a climate like Fort Dodge

🇺🇸Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort Dodge are Marshalltown, United States (99% match), Waterloo and Freeport. About 331,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Wisconsin, United States and Michigan, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort Dodge are Marshalltown, United States (99% match), Waterloo and Freeport. About 858,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Wisconsin, United States and Michigan, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 165 frost-free days · 3,289 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 5b · 165 frost-free days · 3,289 chill hours · 869 mm rain

What grows in Fort Dodge →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cedar Falls (99), Marshalltown (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    35k sq mi91k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Madison (99), Janesville (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    31k sq mi80k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haslett (91), Holt (91)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brantford (86), Cornwall (84)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    1,900 sq mi4,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (84), Candiac (84)

  6. 6

    🇷🇴Mureș County, Romania

    1,400 sq mi3,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sighișoara (82), Târgu Mureş (79)

  7. 7

    🇷🇴Brașov County, Romania

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Făgăraș (82), Râşnov (75)

  8. 8

    🇷🇴Sibiu County, Romania

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mediaş (79), Cisnădie (79)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺North Ossetia–Alania, Russia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Beslan (78), Vladikavkaz (78)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Ingushetiya Republic, Russia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Surkhakhi (80), Kantyshevo (80)

  11. 11

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Svobody (81), Goryachevodskiy (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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    🇺🇸MarshalltownIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 884 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸FreeportIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 889 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸MadisonWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 853 mm rain

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸JanesvilleWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 887 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸DubuqueIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 883 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸AnkenyIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,151 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,151 chill hours · 870 mm rain

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

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸NewtonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 879 mm rain

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

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸WaukeshaWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,317 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,317 chill hours · 874 mm rain

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

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸Cedar RapidsIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 929 mm rain

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

    97%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸RockfordIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 941 mm rain

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

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸North La CrosseWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 171 frost-free days · 3,336 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 171 frost-free days · 3,336 chill hours · 788 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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 19 great-fit crops

    96%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸DixonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 970 mm rain

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

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸Sioux CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 691 mm rain

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

    96%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸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 19 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇺🇸WatertownWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 887 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇺🇸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 19 great-fit crops

    96%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.