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Land with a climate like Helena, Montana

🇺🇸Helena, Montana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Helena, Montana are Great Falls, United States (97% match), Gillette and Bozeman. About 242,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Wyoming, United States, Montana, United States and Idaho, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Helena, Montana are Great Falls, United States (97% match), Gillette and Bozeman. About 627,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Wyoming, United States, Montana, United States and Idaho, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Helena, Montana →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇺🇸Wyoming, United States

    27k sq mi70k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gillette (95), Sheridan (94)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Montana, United States

    26k sq mi68k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Great Falls (97), Bozeman (95)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Idaho, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Idaho Falls (88), Rexburg (87)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lethbridge (90), Calgary (78)

  5. 5

    🇰🇿Zhetysu Region, Kazakhstan

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarqant (74), Ushtobe (73)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tacheng (76), Awuliya (66)

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    🇰🇬Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

  8. 8

    🇰🇿Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

    600 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Esik (75), Talghar (62)

  9. 9

    🇰🇬Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Talas (80)

  10. 10

    🇰🇬Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyzyl-Suu (83), Karakol (73)

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    🇰🇿Almaty, Kazakhstan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

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 FallsMontana, United States

    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

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato

    97%match
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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 15 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, tomato

    92%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, tomato, peach

    91%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇨🇦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 15 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    88%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸Rock SpringsWyoming, United States

    Zone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 7.0 in rainZone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 178 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 15 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸PocatelloIdaho, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,326 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,326 chill hours · 281 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, tomato

    84%match
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    🇰🇬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 15 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, saffron

    83%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, tomato, peach

    82%match
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    🇰🇬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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, soybean, peach

    80%match
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    🇺🇸DickinsonNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, soybean

    78%match
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    🇨🇦CalgaryAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 421 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 15 great-fit crops

    78%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.