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Land with a climate like Fort Smith

🇺🇸Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort Smith are Russellville, United States (99% match), McAlester and Muskogee. About 560,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, Mississippi, United States and Arkansas, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Fort Smith are Russellville, United States (99% match), McAlester and Muskogee. About 1.5 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, Mississippi, United States and Arkansas, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,413 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,413 chill hours · 1,220 mm rain

What grows in Fort Smith →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    68k sq mi176k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Paris (99), Sulphur Springs (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Mississippi, United States

    51k sq mi133k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Olive Branch (99), Southaven (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Russellville (99), Conway (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (84), Qingquan (82)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    6,800 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hangzhou (83), Xiaoshan (82)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (84), Hefei (82)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Osaka, Japan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hirakata (82), Minoh (82)

  8. 8

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Samtredia (83), Kutaisi (82)

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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    🇺🇸RussellvilleArkansas, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,478 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,478 chill hours · 1,268 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸McAlesterOklahoma, United States

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,380 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,380 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸MuskogeeOklahoma, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,573 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,573 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, wine grapes

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸ParisTexas, United States

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,169 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,169 chill hours · 1,166 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸CabotArkansas, United States

    Zone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 1,411 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Little RockArkansas, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 1,426 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸North Little RockArkansas, United States

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,239 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,239 chill hours · 1,419 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸TahlequahOklahoma, United States

    Zone 7b · 239 frost-free days · 1,649 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7b · 239 frost-free days · 1,649 chill hours · 1,136 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, almond, lavender

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸AdaOklahoma, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,436 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,436 chill hours · 1,003 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, wine grapes

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸JonesboroArkansas, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸Hot SpringsArkansas, United States

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,374 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,374 chill hours · 1,530 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸MemphisTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 257 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8a · 257 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 1,354 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸NashvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,635 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,635 chill hours · 1,284 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Sulphur SpringsTexas, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,056 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,056 chill hours · 1,179 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, almond

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Pine BluffArkansas, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 1,453 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Mount PleasantTexas, United States

    Zone 8b · 264 frost-free days · 1,036 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 264 frost-free days · 1,036 chill hours · 1,189 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, almond

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸TexarkanaTexas, United States

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 984 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 984 chill hours · 1,207 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus, olive

    98%match
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    🇺🇸TulsaOklahoma, United States

    Zone 7b · 236 frost-free days · 1,644 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7b · 236 frost-free days · 1,644 chill hours · 996 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, rice

    98%match
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    🇺🇸GreenvilleTexas, United States

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,015 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,015 chill hours · 1,122 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, almond, olive

    98%match
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    🇺🇸El DoradoArkansas, United States

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,080 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,080 chill hours · 1,369 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus, rice

    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.