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Land with a climate like Indianapolis

🇺🇸Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Indianapolis are Charleston, United States (99% match), Terre Haute and Champaign. About 552,000 sq mi of land in 15 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Indianapolis are Charleston, United States (99% match), Terre Haute and Champaign. About 1.4 million km² of land in 15 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,741 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,741 chill hours · 1,049 mm rain

What grows in Indianapolis →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    60k sq mi155k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hannibal (98), Kirksville (97)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    50k sq mi130k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mattoon (99), Charleston (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    41k sq mi106k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Forest Park (99), Hamilton (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Labinsk (92), Mostovskoy (91)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Šabac (89), Valjevo (88)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sremska Mitrovica (86), Ruma (84)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bijeljina (90), Doboj (86)

  8. 8

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    3,500 sq mi9,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (93), Tecumseh (92)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lukavac (87), Gradačac (87)

  10. 10

    🇷🇴Dolj, Romania

    2,800 sq mi7,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Filiaşi (85), Craiova (84)

  11. 11

    🇷🇴Teleorman County, Romania

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zimnicea (81), Alexandria (81)

  12. 12

    🇷🇴Olt, Romania

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Caracal (84), Balş (84)

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

    🇺🇸CharlestonIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,712 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,712 chill hours · 1,097 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Terre HauteIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,667 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,667 chill hours · 1,064 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸ChampaignIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,812 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,812 chill hours · 1,047 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸DanvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,823 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,823 chill hours · 1,056 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸LafayetteIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,849 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,849 chill hours · 937 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸SeymourIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,570 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,570 chill hours · 1,147 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸FlorenceKentucky, United States

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,575 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,575 chill hours · 1,127 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸DecaturIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 1,034 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸MuncieIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸DaytonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸JacksonvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 979 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸CincinnatiOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 1,103 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸BloomingtonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 973 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸SpringfieldIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 946 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸KokomoIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸RichmondIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,897 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,897 chill hours · 1,048 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸PeoriaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,870 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,870 chill hours · 942 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸ColumbusOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸VincennesIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 217 frost-free days · 2,436 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 217 frost-free days · 2,436 chill hours · 1,150 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    98%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.