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Land with a climate like Fort McMurray

🇨🇦Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada

The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort McMurray are Prince Albert, Canada (98% match), Yorkton and Yalutorovsk. About 881,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia and Saskatchewan, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort McMurray are Prince Albert, Canada (98% match), Yorkton and Yalutorovsk. About 2.3 million km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia and Saskatchewan, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 3b · 106 frost-free days · 4,052 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 3b · 106 frost-free days · 4,052 chill hours · 437 mm rain

What grows in Fort McMurray →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇷🇺Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

    44k sq mi114k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Krasnoufimsk (90), Nizhnyaya Salda (88)

  2. 2

    🇷🇺Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia

    38k sq mi98k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Barabinsk (90), Kochenëvo (90)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Saskatchewan, Canada

    34k sq mi87k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prince Albert (98), Yorkton (96)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    25k sq mi66k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lloydminster (92), Camrose (85)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Tyumen Oblast, Russia

    24k sq mi63k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yalutorovsk (94), Zavodoukovsk (94)

  6. 6

    🇨🇦Manitoba, Canada

    13k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brandon (84), Steinbach (82)

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    🇰🇿North Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Petropavl (92)

  8. 8

    🇰🇿Aqmola, Kazakhstan

    5,600 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shchuchinsk (77), Makinsk (77)

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    🇰🇿Kostanay, Kazakhstan

    2,500 sq mi6,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kostanay (75), Rudnyy (70)

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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    🇨🇦Prince AlbertSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 3b · 112 frost-free days · 4,026 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 3b · 112 frost-free days · 4,026 chill hours · 452 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇦YorktonSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 116 frost-free days · 4,002 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4a · 116 frost-free days · 4,002 chill hours · 482 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇷🇺YalutorovskTyumen Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4a · 131 frost-free days · 4,037 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 4a · 131 frost-free days · 4,037 chill hours · 413 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇷🇺BorovskiyTyumen Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4a · 125 frost-free days · 4,019 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 4a · 125 frost-free days · 4,019 chill hours · 423 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    94%match
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    🇨🇦North BattlefordSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,978 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,978 chill hours · 407 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇰🇿PetropavlNorth Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4a · 131 frost-free days · 4,010 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4a · 131 frost-free days · 4,010 chill hours · 381 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇨🇦LloydminsterAlberta, Canada

    Zone 4b · 113 frost-free days · 4,036 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 4b · 113 frost-free days · 4,036 chill hours · 443 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇷🇺KungurPerm Krai, Russia

    Zone 4b · 118 frost-free days · 4,074 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 4b · 118 frost-free days · 4,074 chill hours · 572 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇨🇦SaskatoonSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,994 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,994 chill hours · 387 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    90%match
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    🇷🇺KrasnoufimskSverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4b · 123 frost-free days · 4,030 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 123 frost-free days · 4,030 chill hours · 552 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    90%match
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    🇷🇺UzhurKrasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

    Zone 3b · 97 frost-free days · 4,118 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 3b · 97 frost-free days · 4,118 chill hours · 466 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇷🇺Anzhero-SudzhenskKuzbass, Russia

    Zone 3b · 107 frost-free days · 4,128 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 3b · 107 frost-free days · 4,128 chill hours · 532 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇷🇺KuybyshevNovosibirsk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 3b · 121 frost-free days · 4,059 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 3b · 121 frost-free days · 4,059 chill hours · 391 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇷🇺ToguchinNovosibirsk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 3b · 113 frost-free days · 4,048 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 3b · 113 frost-free days · 4,048 chill hours · 468 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇷🇺LesnoySverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4b · 129 frost-free days · 4,034 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4b · 129 frost-free days · 4,034 chill hours · 464 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    87%match
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    🇷🇺MariinskKuzbass, Russia

    Zone 4a · 114 frost-free days · 4,082 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4a · 114 frost-free days · 4,082 chill hours · 451 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇷🇺BogotolKrasnoyarsk Krai, Russia

    Zone 4a · 115 frost-free days · 4,129 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4a · 115 frost-free days · 4,129 chill hours · 460 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇷🇺YashkinoKuzbass, Russia

    Zone 3b · 109 frost-free days · 4,100 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 3b · 109 frost-free days · 4,100 chill hours · 547 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇷🇺TopkiKuzbass, Russia

    Zone 4a · 113 frost-free days · 4,085 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 4a · 113 frost-free days · 4,085 chill hours · 515 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇷🇺KurtamyshKurgan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 4,007 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 4,007 chill hours · 361 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    87%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.