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Land with a climate like Heerlen

🇳🇱Heerlen, Limburg, The Netherlands

The towns with the closest growing climate to Heerlen are Ratingen, Germany (99% match), Charleroi and Etterbeek. About 653,000 sq mi of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Heerlen are Ratingen, Germany (99% match), Charleroi and Etterbeek. About 1.7 million km² of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,355 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,355 chill hours · 796 mm rain

What grows in Heerlen →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    55k sq mi143k km² matching 80% or better

    For example High Wycombe (99), Amersham (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    27k sq mi69k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (94), Bressuire (92)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alzenau in Unterfranken (99), Aschaffenburg (99)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sedan (99), Charleville-Mézières (99)

  5. 5

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rinteln (99), Hameln (99)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Annemasse (93), Moulins (93)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dorsten (99), Gladbeck (99)

  8. 8

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nowy Tomyśl (87), Trzcianka (86)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    9,800 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Carlow (91), Dublin (91)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kołobrzeg (94), Gryfice (94)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Pomerania, Poland

    9,100 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gdańsk (90), Przymorze Wielkie (90)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,300 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (93), Herning (92)

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

    🇩🇪RatingenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 869 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, walnut, fig

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇧🇪CharleroiWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,266 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,266 chill hours · 806 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇧🇪EtterbeekBrussels Capital, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,201 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 2,201 chill hours · 821 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪KapellenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,383 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,383 chill hours · 746 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪BocholtNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 765 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇧🇪AntwerpFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,071 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,071 chill hours · 811 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, fig

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷ValenciennesHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 741 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron, fig

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇳🇱TilburgNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇩🇪OsnabrückLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇩🇪BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 850 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇧🇪BrusselsBrussels Capital, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 811 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, fig

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷Charleville-MézièresGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,432 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,432 chill hours · 864 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇫🇷LilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 740 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, saffron, kiwifruit

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇧🇪GentFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 822 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, fig

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇩🇪TrierRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,556 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,556 chill hours · 764 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, walnut, saffron

    99%match
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    🇳🇱NijmegenGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪HannoverLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,663 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,663 chill hours · 669 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, fig

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇩🇪HamburgGermany

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,724 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,724 chill hours · 776 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪NienburgLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 210 frost-free days · 2,757 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 210 frost-free days · 2,757 chill hours · 722 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
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    🇧🇪Marche-en-FamenneWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,645 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,645 chill hours · 881 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%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.