Climatch

Land with a climate like Gölcük

🇹🇷Gölcük, Kocaeli, Turkey

The towns with the closest growing climate to Gölcük are Istanbul, Turkey (99% match), Uzunköprü and Šibenik. About 239,000 sq mi of land in 21 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Apulia, Italy, Sardinia, Italy and Catalonia, Spain.The towns with the closest growing climate to Gölcük are Istanbul, Turkey (99% match), Uzunköprü and Šibenik. About 618,000 km² of land in 21 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Apulia, Italy, Sardinia, Italy and Catalonia, Spain.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 280 frost-free days · 1,049 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 280 frost-free days · 1,049 chill hours · 704 mm rain

What grows in Gölcük →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Acquaviva delle Fonti (99), Adelfia (98)

  2. 2

    🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nuoro (92), Sassari (90)

  3. 3

    🇪🇸Catalonia, Spain

    9,000 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mataró (94), Cardedeu (94)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Occitanie, France

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Béziers (96), Castelnau-le-Lez (95)

  5. 5

    🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Siena (97), Poggibonsi (97)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fos-sur-Mer (96), Martigues (96)

  7. 7

    🇬🇷East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

    7,000 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alexandroupoli (96), Komotiní (94)

  8. 8

    🇬🇷West Greece, Greece

    6,800 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aígio (94), Agrínio (92)

  9. 9

    🇹🇷Canakkale, Turkey

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Biga (96), Gelibolu (94)

  10. 10

    🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sparta (90), Kalamata (84)

  11. 11

    🇫🇷Corsica, France

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bastia (92), Ajaccio (92)

  12. 12

    🇹🇷Tekirdağ, Turkey

    4,100 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Malkara (95), Çerkezköy (95)

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

    🇹🇷IstanbulTurkey

    Zone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 1,209 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 1,209 chill hours · 676 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇹🇷UzunköprüEdirne, Turkey

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,516 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,516 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇭🇷ŠibenikŠibenik-Knin, Croatia

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 692 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇹RomeLazio, Italy

    Zone 9a · 292 frost-free days · 816 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 292 frost-free days · 816 chill hours · 702 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇹🇷KeşanEdirne, Turkey

    Zone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,396 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,396 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇮🇹CastrovillariCalabria, Italy

    Zone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 938 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 938 chill hours · 919 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado, sorghum

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇮🇹SienaTuscany, Italy

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,247 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,247 chill hours · 755 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇭🇷SolinSplit-Dalmatia, Croatia

    Zone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 816 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), sorghum

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇮🇹Santa Maria Capua VetereCampania, Italy

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 805 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 805 chill hours · 893 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, maize (corn), sorghum

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇹🇷BigaCanakkale, Turkey

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,378 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,378 chill hours · 701 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    96%match
  11. 11

    🇭🇷ZadarCroatia

    Zone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 1,178 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 1,178 chill hours · 833 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, maize (corn), cotton

    96%match
  12. 12

    🇮🇹TerracinaLazio, Italy

    Zone 9b · 297 frost-free days · 802 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 297 frost-free days · 802 chill hours · 913 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, maize (corn), sorghum

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇮🇹AltamuraApulia, Italy

    Zone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,206 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,206 chill hours · 607 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇦🇱DurrësDurrës County, Albania

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado, sorghum

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇬🇷AlexandroupoliEast Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 568 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 27 great-fit crops

    96%match
  16. 16

    🇦🇱VlorëVlorë County, Albania

    Zone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 700 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 700 chill hours · 980 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, maize (corn), soybean

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇹🇷BafraSamsun, Turkey

    Zone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 1,250 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 1,250 chill hours · 697 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    96%match
  18. 18

    🇫🇷BéziersOccitanie, France

    Zone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 881 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 881 chill hours · 559 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    96%match
  19. 19

    🇮🇹BariApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 696 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 696 chill hours · 569 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇮🇹PescaraAbruzzo, Italy

    Zone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 1,121 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 1,121 chill hours · 674 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    95%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.