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Land with a climate like Harstad

🇳🇴Harstad, Troms, Norway

The towns with the closest growing climate to Harstad are Tromsø, Norway (99% match), Bodø and Reykjavík. About 157,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Troms, Norway, Møre og Romsdal, Norway and Trøndelag, Norway.The towns with the closest growing climate to Harstad are Tromsø, Norway (99% match), Bodø and Reykjavík. About 406,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Troms, Norway, Møre og Romsdal, Norway and Trøndelag, Norway.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 159 frost-free days · 4,013 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 159 frost-free days · 4,013 chill hours · 1,309 mm rain

What grows in Harstad →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇳🇴Troms, Norway

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tromsø (99), Tromsdalen (99)

  2. 2

    🇳🇴Møre og Romsdal, Norway

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Molde (79), Ålesund (77)

  3. 3

    🇳🇴Trøndelag, Norway

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Trondheim (90), Levanger (88)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦British Columbia, Canada

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

  5. 5

    🇮🇸Capital Region, Iceland

    3,800 sq mi9,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hafnarfjörður (92), Kópavogur (91)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Alaska, United States

    3,600 sq mi9,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Juneau (84), Anchorage (59)

  7. 7

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example East Kilbride (62), Newton Mearns (62)

  8. 8

    🇮🇸Northeast, Iceland

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

    For example Akureyri (73)

  9. 9

    🇮🇸Southern Peninsula, Iceland

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Reykjanesbær (92), Keflavík (92)

  10. 10

    🇸🇪Västerbotten, Sweden

    100 sq mi300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Umeå (50)

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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    🇳🇴TromsøTroms, Norway

    Zone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 4,023 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 4,023 chill hours · 1,034 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 6 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇴BodøNordland, Norway

    Zone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,741 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,741 chill hours · 1,068 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇮🇸ReykjavíkCapital Region, Iceland

    Zone 8b · 167 frost-free days · 3,793 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8b · 167 frost-free days · 3,793 chill hours · 963 mm rain

    Shares 4 of your 6 great-fit crops

    91%match
  4. 4

    🇳🇴TrondheimTrøndelag, Norway

    Zone 8a · 164 frost-free days · 3,719 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 164 frost-free days · 3,719 chill hours · 962 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, lavender

    90%match
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    🇳🇴LevangerTrøndelag, Norway

    Zone 8a · 169 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 169 frost-free days · 3,752 chill hours · 1,180 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, hemp

    88%match
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    🇳🇴Mo i RanaNordland, Norway

    Zone 7b · 145 frost-free days · 4,021 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 7b · 145 frost-free days · 4,021 chill hours · 1,447 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    85%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸JuneauAlaska, United States

    Zone 8a · 160 frost-free days · 3,902 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8a · 160 frost-free days · 3,902 chill hours · 1,938 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇳🇴MoldeMøre og Romsdal, Norway

    Zone 8b · 198 frost-free days · 3,427 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8b · 198 frost-free days · 3,427 chill hours · 1,905 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    79%match
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    🇳🇴ÅlesundMøre og Romsdal, Norway

    Zone 9a · 214 frost-free days · 3,048 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 9a · 214 frost-free days · 3,048 chill hours · 1,538 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops

    77%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇪TrollhättanVästra Götaland, Sweden

    Zone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 826 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, lavender

    75%match
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    🇳🇴KristiansundMøre og Romsdal, Norway

    Zone 9a · 221 frost-free days · 3,155 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 9a · 221 frost-free days · 3,155 chill hours · 1,695 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops

    75%match
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    🇸🇪BoråsVästra Götaland, Sweden

    Zone 8a · 167 frost-free days · 3,503 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 167 frost-free days · 3,503 chill hours · 1,064 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, cherry

    74%match
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    🇮🇸AkureyriNortheast, Iceland

    Zone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 3,997 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 3,997 chill hours · 581 mm rain

    Shares 3 of your 6 great-fit crops

    73%match
  14. 14

    🇳🇴KristiansandAgder, Norway

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 1,576 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, apple, cherry

    73%match
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    🇳🇴StavangerRogaland, Norway

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 3,004 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 3,004 chill hours · 1,370 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hemp, cherry

    72%match
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    🇩🇪Clausthal-ZellerfeldLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8a · 176 frost-free days · 3,529 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 176 frost-free days · 3,529 chill hours · 1,309 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hemp, hops

    72%match
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    🇳🇴MossØstfold, Norway

    Zone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,497 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8a · 177 frost-free days · 3,497 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, lavender

    71%match
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    🇨🇦St. John'sNewfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Zone 7a · 146 frost-free days · 3,511 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 7a · 146 frost-free days · 3,511 chill hours · 1,537 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, garlic

    70%match
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    🇳🇴LillestrømAkershus, Norway

    Zone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,817 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,817 chill hours · 873 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, lavender

    68%match
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    🇳🇴FredrikstadØstfold, Norway

    Zone 8a · 183 frost-free days · 3,439 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 183 frost-free days · 3,439 chill hours · 836 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, garlic, lavender

    67%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.