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Land with a climate like Lancaster, Pennsylvania

🇺🇸Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Lancaster, Pennsylvania are Hagerstown, United States (99% match), Edison and Trenton. About 609,000 sq mi of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Lancaster, Pennsylvania are Hagerstown, United States (99% match), Edison and Trenton. About 1.6 million km² of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,601 chill hours · 1,035 mm rain

What grows in Lancaster, Pennsylvania →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    61k sq mi159k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ballwin (96), Wildwood (96)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    42k sq mi108k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Upper Alton (96), Edwardsville (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Columbus (98), Upper Arlington (98)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (94), Belorechensk (94)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (88), Obrenovac (87)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pančevo (85), Nova Pazova (84)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarajevo (90), Ilidža (90)

  8. 8

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallarate (90), Cassano Magnago (90)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prijedor (90), Banja Luka (88)

  10. 10

    🇮🇹Piedmont, Italy

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Verbania (90), Pallanza-Intra-Suna (90)

  11. 11

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Belluno (90), Valdagno (88)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Imsil (85), Jeongeup (84)

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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    🇺🇸HagerstownMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,555 chill hours · 985 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸EdisonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 200 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 1,232 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸TrentonNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,449 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,449 chill hours · 1,174 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸CarlislePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,705 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,705 chill hours · 1,035 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸WinchesterVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,504 chill hours · 972 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AllentownPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,745 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,745 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸BridgeportConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 1,198 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸Ellicott CityMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,352 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,352 chill hours · 1,184 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸New York CityNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 2,440 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 213 frost-free days · 2,440 chill hours · 1,203 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, cotton

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸ColumbiaMaryland, United States

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸VinelandNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 1,114 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸PittsburghPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,671 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸ParkersburgWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,554 chill hours · 1,074 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸PhiladelphiaPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,289 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 214 frost-free days · 2,289 chill hours · 1,111 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸HarrisonburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,471 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7b · 195 frost-free days · 2,471 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸WheelingWest Virginia, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,704 chill hours · 974 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸Spring ValleyNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,805 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,805 chill hours · 1,252 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸WaynesboroVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,370 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 2,370 chill hours · 1,071 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸BrentwoodNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,572 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,572 chill hours · 1,077 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸ColumbusOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 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.