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Land with a climate like Kars

🇹🇷Kars, Kars Province, Turkey

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kars are Pasinler, Turkey (95% match), Hrazdan and Horasan. About 60,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Alberta, Canada, Erzurum, Turkey and North Dakota, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kars are Pasinler, Turkey (95% match), Hrazdan and Horasan. About 154,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Alberta, Canada, Erzurum, Turkey and North Dakota, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,540 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,540 chill hours · 447 mm rain

What grows in Kars →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    7,500 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Medicine Hat (85), Lethbridge (80)

  2. 2

    🇹🇷Erzurum, Turkey

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pasinler (95), Horasan (92)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸North Dakota, United States

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dickinson (82), Williston (79)

  4. 4

    🇹🇷Kars Province, Turkey

    3,200 sq mi8,300 km² matching 80% or better

  5. 5

    🇹🇷Ağrı, Turkey

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Diyadin (89), Ağrı (89)

  6. 6

    🇰🇬Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kara-Kulja (70)

  7. 7

    🇦🇲Shirak, Armenia

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

  8. 8

    🇰🇬Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kara-Kul’ (70), Toktogul (54)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸South Dakota, United States

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aberdeen (73), Brookings (73)

  10. 10

    🇨🇦British Columbia, Canada

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cranbrook (80), Kamloops (53)

  11. 11

    🇨🇦Saskatchewan, Canada

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Swift Current (76), Moose Jaw (62)

  12. 12

    🇮🇷West Azerbaijan, Iran

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Seyah Cheshmeh (60)

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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    🇹🇷PasinlerErzurum, Turkey

    Zone 5b · 133 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5b · 133 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 440 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), pear

    95%match
  2. 2

    🇦🇲HrazdanKotayk, Armenia

    Zone 6a · 149 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 6a · 149 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 484 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, sunflower

    93%match
  3. 3

    🇹🇷HorasanErzurum, Turkey

    Zone 5b · 139 frost-free days · 3,442 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5b · 139 frost-free days · 3,442 chill hours · 403 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    92%match
  4. 4

    🇹🇷DiyadinAğrı, Turkey

    Zone 6a · 142 frost-free days · 3,505 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6a · 142 frost-free days · 3,505 chill hours · 443 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, maize (corn)

    89%match
  5. 5

    🇹🇷AğrıTurkey

    Zone 5b · 143 frost-free days · 3,443 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 5b · 143 frost-free days · 3,443 chill hours · 500 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    89%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇦Medicine HatAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 337 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    85%match
  7. 7

    🇹🇷AşkaleErzurum, Turkey

    Zone 5b · 145 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 5b · 145 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 496 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, maize (corn)

    84%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, maize (corn)

    82%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇦CranbrookBritish Columbia, Canada

    Zone 6b · 121 frost-free days · 3,746 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6b · 121 frost-free days · 3,746 chill hours · 465 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops

    80%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦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 12 great-fit crops

    80%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸WillistonNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,697 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,697 chill hours · 373 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), pear

    79%match
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    🇹🇷BayburtBayburt Province, Turkey

    Zone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 457 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, sunflower, maize (corn)

    79%match
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    🇨🇦Swift CurrentSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 411 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops

    76%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸CondaIdaho, United States

    Zone 5b · 88 frost-free days · 3,778 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5b · 88 frost-free days · 3,778 chill hours · 412 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 12 great-fit crops

    76%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸BismarckNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 467 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), pear

    76%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸MinotNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops

    75%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 12 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇺🇸AberdeenSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, pear

    73%match
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    🇺🇸BrookingsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, tomato

    73%match
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    🇺🇸KalispellMontana, United States

    Zone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 450 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, saffron

    72%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.