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Land with a climate like Kearney

🇺🇸Kearney, Nebraska, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kearney are Columbus, United States (98% match), Norfolk and Fremont. About 197,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nebraska, United States, Kansas, United States and Iowa, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kearney are Columbus, United States (98% match), Norfolk and Fremont. About 510,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nebraska, United States, Kansas, United States and Iowa, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 620 mm rain

What grows in Kearney →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Nebraska, United States

    34k sq mi87k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Columbus (98), Norfolk (97)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Kansas, United States

    31k sq mi79k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hays (93), Junction City (84)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    25k sq mi64k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sioux City (93), Council Bluffs (93)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pyatigorsk (79), Zheleznovodsk (79)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    600 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Otradnaya (80), Armavir (72)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Karachayevo-Cherkesiya Republic, Russia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cherkessk (81), Ust’-Dzheguta (78)

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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    🇺🇸ColumbusNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸NorfolkNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 681 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸FremontNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 767 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸North PlatteNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 499 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸LincolnNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 732 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Sioux CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸HaysKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 562 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸OmahaNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 770 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸MitchellSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    91%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸OttumwaIowa, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,948 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,948 chill hours · 900 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇺🇸Des MoinesIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 3,046 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 3,046 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇺🇸ManhattanKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 195 frost-free days · 2,507 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6b · 195 frost-free days · 2,507 chill hours · 843 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Sioux FallsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 633 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇺🇸AmesIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 859 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Great BendKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,423 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,423 chill hours · 631 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, saffron, pecan

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Saint JosephMissouri, United States

    Zone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 197 frost-free days · 2,634 chill hours · 867 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pecan

    82%match
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    🇺🇸NewtonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇺🇸Cedar RapidsIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 179 frost-free days · 3,143 chill hours · 929 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇷🇺CherkesskKarachayevo-Cherkesiya Republic, Russia

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,962 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,962 chill hours · 593 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, saffron

    81%match
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    🇷🇴PloieştiPrahova, Romania

    Zone 7a · 193 frost-free days · 2,834 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 7a · 193 frost-free days · 2,834 chill hours · 538 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, saffron

    80%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.