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Land with a climate like Idar-Oberstein

🇩🇪Idar-Oberstein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Idar-Oberstein are Lohr am Main, Germany (99% match), Siegen and Baunatal. About 887,000 sq mi of land in 37 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 Idar-Oberstein are Lohr am Main, Germany (99% match), Siegen and Baunatal. About 2.3 million km² of land in 37 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 3,089 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 3,089 chill hours · 828 mm rain

What grows in Idar-Oberstein →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    55k sq mi143k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kirkby in Ashfield (94), Sutton in Ashfield (94)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    27k sq mi70k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lohr am Main (99), Bad Kissingen (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (99), Saint-Avold (99)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hannoversch Münden (99), Bad Harzburg (99)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Annemasse (91), Oyonnax (91)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Belfort (96), Autun (96)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Buchen in Odenwald (99), Wertheim (99)

  8. 8

    🇧🇾Brest, Belarus

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brest (85), Ivanovo (84)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Trzcianka (92), Nowy Tomyśl (92)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Mazovia, Poland

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Piaseczno (90), Żyrardów (89)

  11. 11

    🇸🇪Västra Götaland, Sweden

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Västra Frölunda (97), Gothenburg (96)

  12. 12

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (84), Gornji Milanovac (82)

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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    🇩🇪Lohr am MainBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 3,041 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 3,041 chill hours · 839 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇩🇪SiegenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,977 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,977 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, wine grapes

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪BaunatalHesse, Germany

    Zone 8a · 197 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8a · 197 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 723 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪FuldaHesse, Germany

    Zone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 3,044 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 3,044 chill hours · 781 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪TaunussteinHesse, Germany

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 753 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇩🇪GöppingenBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 2,962 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 2,962 chill hours · 865 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇩🇪Bad KissingenBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 684 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪WernigerodeSaxony-Anhalt, Germany

    Zone 8a · 187 frost-free days · 3,138 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8a · 187 frost-free days · 3,138 chill hours · 708 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇩🇪Marburg an der LahnHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 199 frost-free days · 2,959 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 199 frost-free days · 2,959 chill hours · 693 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷Saint-Dié-des-VosgesGrand Est, France

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,882 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 2,882 chill hours · 868 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
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    🇩🇪Schwäbisch HallBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 186 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 186 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 956 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪PforzheimBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪ÖhringenBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,825 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,825 chill hours · 826 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇩🇪Groß-UmstadtHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,801 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,801 chill hours · 842 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
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    🇩🇪Buchholz in der NordheideLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,973 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,973 chill hours · 781 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇩🇪NorderstedtSchleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,932 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,932 chill hours · 806 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato

    99%match
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    🇫🇷Saint-AvoldGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,773 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,773 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
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    🇩🇪MarsbergNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 954 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪LübeckSchleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Zone 8b · 203 frost-free days · 2,991 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 203 frost-free days · 2,991 chill hours · 700 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇩🇪ReutlingenBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 191 frost-free days · 3,041 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8a · 191 frost-free days · 3,041 chill hours · 715 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    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.