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Land with a climate like Frankfort, Illinois

🇺🇸Frankfort, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Frankfort, Illinois are Fort Wayne, United States (99% match), Michigan City and Defiance. About 598,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Frankfort, Illinois are Fort Wayne, United States (99% match), Michigan City and Defiance. About 1.5 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,081 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,081 chill hours · 1,009 mm rain

What grows in Frankfort, Illinois →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clinton (98), Dubuque (97)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Washington (99), Carpentersville (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Defiance (99), Marion (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaSalle (98), Chatham (97)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (88), Gornji Milanovac (86)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    9,300 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (87), Otradnaya (86)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (84), Tuzla (83)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (82), Bila Tserkva (81)

  9. 9

    🇷🇴Hunedoara County, Romania

    3,100 sq mi8,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hunedoara (84), Orăştie (84)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Suvorovskaya (86), Svobody (86)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

    2,600 sq mi6,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kolomyia (83), Kalush (83)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

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

    For example Bochnia (82), Tarnów (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

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Fort WayneIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 909 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Michigan CityIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,009 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,009 chill hours · 1,003 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸DefianceOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 872 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸South BendIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Crystal LakeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 960 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸DeKalbIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 961 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸SidneyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 951 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸FindlayOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸KokomoIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Mount VernonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 1,009 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸BloomingtonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 973 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸MansfieldOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 994 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸LimaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 912 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸TiffinOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 923 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸MuncieIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸MarysvilleOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,930 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,930 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸GalesburgIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 964 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    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.