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Land with a climate like Jelgava

🇱🇻Jelgava, Latvia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Jelgava are Šiauliai, Lithuania (99% match), Kaunas and Marijampolė. About 942,000 sq mi of land in 26 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Tver Oblast, Russia, Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Jelgava are Šiauliai, Lithuania (99% match), Kaunas and Marijampolė. About 2.4 million km² of land in 26 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Tver Oblast, Russia, Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 166 frost-free days · 3,564 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 166 frost-free days · 3,564 chill hours · 592 mm rain

What grows in Jelgava →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇷🇺Tver Oblast, Russia

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nelidovo (87), Ostashkov (86)

  2. 2

    🇷🇺Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia

    23k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Slantsy (93), Kingisepp (92)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Selb (95), Marktredwitz (94)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Smolensk Oblast, Russia

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yartsevo (87), Smolensk (86)

  5. 5

    🇧🇾Vitebsk, Belarus

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lyepyel’ (98), Pastavy (97)

  6. 6

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rahachow (97), Zhlobin (96)

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    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bad Harzburg (92), Helmstedt (91)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    14k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Slavutych (93), Yahotyn (90)

  9. 9

    🇧🇾Minsk, Belarus

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fanipol (98), Dzyarzhynsk (98)

  10. 10

    🇩🇪Brandenburg, Germany

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Templin (94), Prenzlau (92)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Trzcianka (95), Złotów (95)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zvyahel (94), Korosten (93)

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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    🇱🇹ŠiauliaiSiauliai, Lithuania

    Zone 7b · 163 frost-free days · 3,616 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 163 frost-free days · 3,616 chill hours · 593 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇱🇹KaunasLithuania

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 585 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇱🇹MarijampolėMarijampolė County, Lithuania

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,506 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,506 chill hours · 583 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇱🇹JonavaKaunas, Lithuania

    Zone 7a · 164 frost-free days · 3,552 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 7a · 164 frost-free days · 3,552 chill hours · 571 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇷🇺GusevKaliningrad Oblast, Russia

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,458 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,458 chill hours · 617 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇵🇱SuwałkiPodlasie, Poland

    Zone 7b · 166 frost-free days · 3,591 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 166 frost-free days · 3,591 chill hours · 575 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇱🇹MazeikiaiTelsiai, Lithuania

    Zone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,572 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,572 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇱🇹AlytusLithuania

    Zone 7a · 169 frost-free days · 3,550 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7a · 169 frost-free days · 3,550 chill hours · 589 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇷🇺SovetskKaliningrad Oblast, Russia

    Zone 7b · 183 frost-free days · 3,454 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 7b · 183 frost-free days · 3,454 chill hours · 700 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇱🇹PanevėžysLithuania

    Zone 7b · 164 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 164 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 573 mm rain

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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇵🇱Bielsk PodlaskiPodlasie, Poland

    Zone 7b · 170 frost-free days · 3,476 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 7b · 170 frost-free days · 3,476 chill hours · 556 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇵🇱EłkWarmia-Masuria, Poland

    Zone 7b · 175 frost-free days · 3,461 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 7b · 175 frost-free days · 3,461 chill hours · 528 mm rain

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

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇱🇹PlungeTelsiai, Lithuania

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,598 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,598 chill hours · 775 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇸🇪KarlstadVärmland, Sweden

    Zone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,624 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,624 chill hours · 686 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇸🇪StockholmSweden

    Zone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 577 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇸🇪ÖrebroSweden

    Zone 7b · 159 frost-free days · 3,628 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 7b · 159 frost-free days · 3,628 chill hours · 676 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇵🇱OlsztynWarmia-Masuria, Poland

    Zone 7b · 181 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7b · 181 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 601 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, saffron

    99%match
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    🇵🇱SzczytnoWarmia-Masuria, Poland

    Zone 7b · 178 frost-free days · 3,421 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7b · 178 frost-free days · 3,421 chill hours · 515 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇵🇱BartoszyceWarmia-Masuria, Poland

    Zone 7b · 181 frost-free days · 3,361 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 7b · 181 frost-free days · 3,361 chill hours · 646 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇸🇪KatrineholmSödermanland, Sweden

    Zone 7b · 159 frost-free days · 3,650 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7b · 159 frost-free days · 3,650 chill hours · 597 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 15 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.