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Land with a climate like Great Falls, Montana

🇺🇸Great Falls, Montana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Great Falls, Montana are Gillette, United States (99% match), Bozeman and Billings. About 231,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Wyoming, United States and Idaho, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Great Falls, Montana are Gillette, United States (99% match), Bozeman and Billings. About 599,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Wyoming, United States and Idaho, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 352 mm rain

What grows in Great Falls, Montana →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Montana, United States

    28k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bozeman (99), Billings (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Wyoming, United States

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gillette (99), Sheridan (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Idaho, United States

    6,800 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Idaho Falls (82), Rexburg (81)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

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

    For example Lethbridge (87), Calgary (65)

  5. 5

    🇰🇿Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

    2,400 sq mi6,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Esik (82), Talghar (69)

  6. 6

    🇰🇿Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan

    1,700 sq mi4,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taldykorgan (73), Sarqant (65)

  7. 7

    🇰🇬Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyzyl-Suu (90), Karakol (84)

  8. 8

    🇰🇬Batken, Kyrgyzstan

    900 sq mi2,400 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇰🇬Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kara-Balta (59), Belovodskoye (57)

  10. 10

    🇮🇷East Azerbaijan, Iran

    700 sq mi1,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarāb (67)

  11. 11

    🇰🇿Zhambyl, Kazakhstan

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Merke (55)

  12. 12

    🇹🇷Erzurum, Turkey

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oltu (80), Aşkale (60)

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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    🇺🇸GilletteWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 387 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸BozemanMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 433 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸BillingsMontana, United States

    Zone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 326 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peach

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸HelenaMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸SheridanWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 357 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    96%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸CasperWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 274 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    95%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸CheyenneWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 342 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    92%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸Rapid CitySouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 6b · 152 frost-free days · 3,260 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6b · 152 frost-free days · 3,260 chill hours · 441 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peach

    92%match
  9. 9

    🇰🇬Kyzyl-SuuIssyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

    Zone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 382 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸MissoulaMontana, United States

    Zone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 344 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    90%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇦LethbridgeAlberta, Canada

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 382 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 16 great-fit crops

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸ButteMontana, United States

    Zone 5b · 106 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 5b · 106 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 308 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 16 great-fit crops

    84%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸LaramieWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,640 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,640 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 16 great-fit crops

    83%match
  14. 14

    🇰🇬TalasTalas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    Zone 6a · 158 frost-free days · 3,335 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 158 frost-free days · 3,335 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peach

    83%match
  15. 15

    🇰🇿EsikAlmaty Region, Kazakhstan

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,481 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,481 chill hours · 504 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach

    82%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸Idaho FallsIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 16 great-fit crops

    82%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸Fort CollinsColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 2,944 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 2,944 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peach, saffron

    82%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸RexburgIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 321 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 16 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇺🇸KalispellMontana, United States

    Zone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 450 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    80%match
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    🇹🇷OltuErzurum, Turkey

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,135 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,135 chill hours · 416 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, soybean, walnut

    80%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.