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Land with a climate like Knoxville

🇺🇸Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Knoxville are Hendersonville, United States (99% match), Murfreesboro and Clarksville. About 548,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Knoxville are Hendersonville, United States (99% match), Murfreesboro and Clarksville. About 1.4 million km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 1,236 mm rain

What grows in Knoxville →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shelby (99), Henderson (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Paragould (99), Fayetteville (98)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    47k sq mi120k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Franklin (99), Lebanon (99)

  4. 4

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,600 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zestaponi (90), Kutaisi (90)

  5. 5

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    1,300 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vicenza (84), Montebelluna (84)

  6. 6

    🇮🇳Jammu and Kashmir, India

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bijbehara (89), Anantnag (89)

  7. 7

    🇮🇹Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sacile (84), Cordenons (84)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasayama (83), Tamba-Sasayama (83)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (86), Poti (65)

  10. 10

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Seregno (81), Cesano Maderno (80)

  11. 11

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (78), Wuyang (75)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Kyoto, Japan

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fukuchiyama (83), Ayabe (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

  1. 1

    🇺🇸HendersonvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,290 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸MurfreesboroTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,676 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,676 chill hours · 1,420 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, tea

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸ClarksvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 7b · 224 frost-free days · 1,873 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 224 frost-free days · 1,873 chill hours · 1,314 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸NashvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,635 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,635 chill hours · 1,284 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸CookevilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,879 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,879 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, tea

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Bowling GreenKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 224 frost-free days · 1,917 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 224 frost-free days · 1,917 chill hours · 1,315 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸HendersonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, rice

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸ShelbyvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,698 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,698 chill hours · 1,447 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸HickoryNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,193 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸Roanoke RapidsNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 1,148 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, rice, lavender

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸DicksonTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 1,881 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 1,881 chill hours · 1,402 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸ColumbiaTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 1,742 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 1,742 chill hours · 1,406 mm rain

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

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸ConcordNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 1,117 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸MurrayKentucky, United States

    Zone 7b · 231 frost-free days · 1,904 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 7b · 231 frost-free days · 1,904 chill hours · 1,364 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸DanvilleVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 1,113 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
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    🇺🇸DaltonGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 1,490 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸ChattanoogaTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,509 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,509 chill hours · 1,475 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸East ChattanoogaTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 1,472 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸GarnerNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,481 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,481 chill hours · 1,171 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, almond

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Rocky MountNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, almond

    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.