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Land with a climate like Grand Forks

🇺🇸Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Grand Forks are Jamestown, United States (99% match), Fargo and Hibbing. About 408,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Minnesota, United States and Bashkortostan Republic, Russia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Grand Forks are Jamestown, United States (99% match), Fargo and Hibbing. About 1.1 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Minnesota, United States and Bashkortostan Republic, Russia.

Your growing climate

Zone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,764 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,764 chill hours · 535 mm rain

What grows in Grand Forks →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Dakota, United States

    38k sq mi98k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Fargo (99), Jamestown (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    32k sq mi84k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moorhead (99), Hibbing (95)

  3. 3

    🇷🇺Bashkortostan Republic, Russia

    27k sq mi70k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Davlekanovo (88), Rayevskiy (88)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Saskatchewan, Canada

    24k sq mi63k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Regina (89), Moose Jaw (89)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Chelyabinsk, Russia

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yemanzhelinsk (86), Yuzhnoural’sk (86)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Superior (85), Marshfield (84)

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    🇷🇺Kurgan Oblast, Russia

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kataysk (86), Shadrinsk (85)

  8. 8

    🇨🇦Manitoba, Canada

    14k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Winnipeg (90), Brandon (85)

  9. 9

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Thunder Bay (86), Kenora (86)

  10. 10

    🇰🇿Kostanay, Kazakhstan

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kostanay (81), Rudnyy (81)

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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    🇺🇸JamestownNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 515 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸FargoNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 591 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    99%match
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    🇺🇸HibbingMinnesota, United States

    Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    95%match
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    🇺🇸MinotNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, cherry

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸AberdeenSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    91%match
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    🇺🇸BismarckNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 467 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, cherry, pear

    91%match
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    🇺🇸WatertownSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    90%match
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    🇨🇦WinnipegManitoba, Canada

    Zone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,864 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,864 chill hours · 627 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 12 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇨🇦ReginaSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 130 frost-free days · 3,932 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 4a · 130 frost-free days · 3,932 chill hours · 444 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇨🇦Moose JawSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4b · 131 frost-free days · 3,900 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 4b · 131 frost-free days · 3,900 chill hours · 408 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    89%match
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    🇷🇺DavlekanovoBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,928 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,928 chill hours · 424 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    88%match
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    🇺🇸BrookingsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    88%match
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    🇷🇺ChishmyBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,930 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,930 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    87%match
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    🇺🇸Saint CloudMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 709 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    86%match
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    🇨🇦Thunder BayOntario, Canada

    Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,814 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,814 chill hours · 718 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    86%match
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    🇨🇦Swift CurrentSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 411 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    86%match
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    🇨🇦EdmontonAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5a · 125 frost-free days · 3,961 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5a · 125 frost-free days · 3,961 chill hours · 456 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    86%match
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    🇺🇸WillmarMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 743 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, blueberry

    86%match
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    🇨🇦KenoraOntario, Canada

    Zone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇷🇺Yuzhnoural’skChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,945 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,945 chill hours · 382 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 12 great-fit crops

    86%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.