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Land with a climate like Herford

🇩🇪Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Herford are Hamburg, Germany (99% match), Aachen and Hannover. About 692,000 sq mi of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Herford are Hamburg, Germany (99% match), Aachen and Hannover. About 1.8 million km² of land in 32 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 815 mm rain

What grows in Herford →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    56k sq mi145k km² matching 80% or better

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

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    26k sq mi67k km² matching 80% or better

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

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hayange (99), Sarreguemines (99)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cloppenburg (99), Laatzen (99)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Thonon-les-Bains (92), Annemasse (92)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Autun (96), Le Creusot (96)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weinheim (99), Öhringen (99)

  8. 8

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nowy Tomyśl (89), Ostrów Wielkopolski (89)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dublin (91), Rathfarnham (91)

  10. 10

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Perth (94), Broxburn (92)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Świdwin (95), Białogard (94)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Pomerania, Poland

    9,100 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gdańsk (93), Gdynia (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

    🇩🇪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
  2. 2

    🇩🇪AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪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
  4. 4

    🇩🇪BremenGermany

    Zone 8b · 206 frost-free days · 2,814 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 206 frost-free days · 2,814 chill hours · 693 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪WalsrodeLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 741 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇩🇪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
  7. 7

    🇩🇪BoppardRheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,599 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,599 chill hours · 667 mm rain

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

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪OldenburgLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,755 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,755 chill hours · 776 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇩🇪EssenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,339 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,339 chill hours · 949 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇧🇪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
  11. 11

    🇧🇪GenkFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,409 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,409 chill hours · 795 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪IserlohnNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 210 frost-free days · 2,786 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 8b · 210 frost-free days · 2,786 chill hours · 1,010 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪BremervördeLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 791 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇳🇱RoermondLimburg, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 748 mm rain

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

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇧🇪LeuvenFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,188 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,188 chill hours · 773 mm rain

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

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇳🇱VenloLimburg, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,368 chill hours · 751 mm rain

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

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇧🇪SeraingWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,315 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,315 chill hours · 857 mm rain

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

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇳🇱EindhovenNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 801 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇧🇪HasseltFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,248 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,248 chill hours · 801 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇩🇪MeppenLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 780 mm rain

    Shares 16 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.