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Land with a climate like Lake Zurich

🇺🇸Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Lake Zurich are Jackson, United States (99% match), Adrian and Lansing. About 677,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Lake Zurich are Jackson, United States (99% match), Adrian and Lansing. About 1.8 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,184 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,184 chill hours · 939 mm rain

What grows in Lake Zurich →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (99), Clinton (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rockford (99), Park Forest (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sylvania (99), Ashland (98)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    35k sq mi90k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaSalle (98), Kingsville (98)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (89), Bor (84)

  6. 6

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (83), Zhmerynka (82)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stryi (86), Drohobych (86)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (87), Otradnaya (86)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    5,600 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (85), Bila Tserkva (84)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (85), Bugojno (81)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bochnia (84), Tarnów (84)

  12. 12

    🇷🇴Hunedoara County, Romania

    3,500 sq mi9,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Petroşani (86), Hunedoara (85)

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

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸Ann ArborMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 862 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸FlintMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 774 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸RockfordIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 941 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸SaginawMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 786 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸DixonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 970 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸New LenoxIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 998 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸MilwaukeeWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,232 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,232 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸DubuqueIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 883 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸FreeportIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 889 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸VestalNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸JanesvilleWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 887 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸ClintonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 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.