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Land with a climate like Hays

🇺🇸Hays, Kansas, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hays are Great Bend, United States (99% match), Dodge City and Garden City. About 164,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Kansas, United States, Nebraska, United States and Texas, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hays are Great Bend, United States (99% match), Dodge City and Garden City. About 424,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Kansas, United States, Nebraska, United States and Texas, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 562 mm rain

What grows in Hays →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Kansas, United States

    52k sq mi135k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Great Bend (99), Dodge City (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Nebraska, United States

    26k sq mi67k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kearney (93), Lincoln (92)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pampa (85), Dumas (80)

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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    🇺🇸Great BendKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,423 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,423 chill hours · 631 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, saffron, pecan

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Dodge CityKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,418 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,418 chill hours · 534 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Garden CityKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,442 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,442 chill hours · 458 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, saffron

    97%match
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    🇺🇸SalinaKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,448 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,448 chill hours · 732 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan, saffron

    96%match
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    🇺🇸HutchinsonKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,308 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,308 chill hours · 737 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, peanut, saffron

    94%match
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    🇺🇸ManhattanKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 195 frost-free days · 2,507 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6b · 195 frost-free days · 2,507 chill hours · 843 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    94%match
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    🇺🇸KearneyNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸LiberalKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,199 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,199 chill hours · 455 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, saffron, peanut

    93%match
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    🇺🇸LincolnNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 732 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇺🇸Grand IslandNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 632 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇺🇸NewtonKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 796 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, peanut, saffron

    92%match
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    🇺🇸EmporiaKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,386 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,386 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan, rice

    89%match
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    🇺🇸DerbyKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 218 frost-free days · 2,164 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 7a · 218 frost-free days · 2,164 chill hours · 792 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, peanut, cotton

    87%match
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    🇺🇸North PlatteNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 499 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸ColumbusNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸TopekaKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 206 frost-free days · 2,438 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 7a · 206 frost-free days · 2,438 chill hours · 885 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, peanut

    86%match
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    🇺🇸PampaTexas, United States

    Zone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,032 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,032 chill hours · 501 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, almond, table and raisin grapes

    85%match
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    🇺🇸Saint JosephMissouri, United States

    Zone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 867 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    85%match
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    🇺🇸OmahaNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 770 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇺🇸FremontNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 767 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    82%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.