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Land with a climate like Lake Charles

🇺🇸Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Lake Charles are Beaumont, United States (99% match), Lafayette and Baton Rouge. About 472,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Texas, United States and Louisiana, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Lake Charles are Beaumont, United States (99% match), Lafayette and Baton Rouge. About 1.2 million km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Texas, United States and Louisiana, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 342 frost-free days · 295 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 9b · 342 frost-free days · 295 chill hours · 1,544 mm rain

What grows in Lake Charles →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇧🇷Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    70k sq mi181k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Uruguaiana (89), Itaqui (88)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    67k sq mi174k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Beaumont (99), Nederland (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Louisiana, United States

    46k sq mi118k km² matching 80% or better

    For example New Iberia (99), Lafayette (99)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Florida, United States

    35k sq mi90k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pensacola (99), East Pensacola Heights (99)

  5. 5

    🇦🇷Corrientes, Argentina

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Paso de los Libres (89), Gobernador Virasora (87)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Guangxi, China

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yizhou (84), Luorong (83)

  7. 7

    🇦🇷Misiones, Argentina

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apóstoles (87), Leandro N. Alem (87)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Fujian, China

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sanming (89), Nanping (88)

  9. 9

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    9,300 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ganzhou (85), Yingtan (84)

  10. 10

    🇦🇷Entre Rios, Argentina

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chajarí (85), Concordia (84)

  11. 11

    🇵🇾Misiones Department, Paraguay

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Juan Bautista (82)

  12. 12

    🇵🇾Caazapá, Paraguay

    2,400 sq mi6,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Caazapá (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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    🇺🇸BeaumontTexas, United States

    Zone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 259 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 259 chill hours · 1,577 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸LafayetteLouisiana, United States

    Zone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 1,603 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸Baton RougeLouisiana, United States

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 362 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 362 chill hours · 1,664 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸East Pensacola HeightsFlorida, United States

    Zone 9b · 347 frost-free days · 287 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9b · 347 frost-free days · 287 chill hours · 1,676 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸HoustonTexas, United States

    Zone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 189 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 189 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, garlic

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸DickinsonTexas, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 168 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 168 chill hours · 1,378 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, fig, garlic

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸New OrleansLouisiana, United States

    Zone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 233 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 233 chill hours · 1,712 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸GulfportMississippi, United States

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 323 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 323 chill hours · 1,711 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸HoumaLouisiana, United States

    Zone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 201 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 201 chill hours · 1,715 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸PascagoulaMississippi, United States

    Zone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 258 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 258 chill hours · 1,707 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸MobileAlabama, United States

    Zone 9b · 322 frost-free days · 419 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 9b · 322 frost-free days · 419 chill hours · 1,736 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸SlidellLouisiana, United States

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 369 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 369 chill hours · 1,626 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸CypressTexas, United States

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 360 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 360 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, garlic, olive

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸DaphneAlabama, United States

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 388 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 388 chill hours · 1,768 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Lake JacksonTexas, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 147 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 147 chill hours · 1,443 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, fig

    99%match
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    🇺🇸RosenbergTexas, United States

    Zone 9b · 336 frost-free days · 305 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 9b · 336 frost-free days · 305 chill hours · 1,143 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, garlic, olive

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Santa Rosa BeachFlorida, United States

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 334 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 334 chill hours · 1,671 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Bay CityTexas, United States

    Zone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 186 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 10a · 353 frost-free days · 186 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, garlic

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Panama CityFlorida, United States

    Zone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 248 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 248 chill hours · 1,658 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    98%match
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    🇺🇸HammondLouisiana, United States

    Zone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 458 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 458 chill hours · 1,747 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    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.