Climatch

Land with a climate like Le Puy-en-Velay

🇫🇷Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Le Puy-en-Velay are Rodez, France (99% match), Clermont-Ferrand and Aurillac. About 726,000 sq mi of land in 40 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, New Aquitaine, France and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Le Puy-en-Velay are Rodez, France (99% match), Clermont-Ferrand and Aurillac. About 1.9 million km² of land in 40 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, New Aquitaine, France and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 653 mm rain

What grows in Le Puy-en-Velay →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    25k sq mi66k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chamalières (99), Riom (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    24k sq mi63k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (94), Tulle (93)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    20k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mulhouse (96), Wittenheim (96)

  4. 4

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vranje (97), Aranđelovac (96)

  5. 5

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nuremberg (91), Ansbach (90)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (92), Otradnaya (90)

  7. 7

    🇪🇸Castille and León, Spain

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Burgos (88), Soria (87)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪Brandenburg, Germany

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cottbus (89), Finsterwalde (88)

  9. 9

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weil am Rhein (96), Lörrach (94)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    9,800 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bugojno (92), Gradačac (92)

  11. 11

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bačka Palanka (92), Vršac (92)

  12. 12

    🇳🇿Canterbury, New Zealand

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashburton (92), Rolleston (90)

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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    🇫🇷RodezOccitanie, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 685 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷Clermont-FerrandAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 580 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷AurillacAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 749 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇫🇷VichyAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, maize (corn)

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇫🇷Saint-LeuBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 213 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 784 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, maize (corn)

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇫🇷RoanneAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 671 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, maize (corn), almond

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇷🇸VranjeCentral Serbia, Serbia

    Zone 7b · 186 frost-free days · 2,791 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 7b · 186 frost-free days · 2,791 chill hours · 626 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇫🇷MoulinsAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, maize (corn)

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇭BaselBasel-City, Switzerland

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 745 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), fig

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇮🇹AostaAosta Valley, Italy

    Zone 7b · 197 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 7b · 197 frost-free days · 2,839 chill hours · 760 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇫🇷MontluçonAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 1,929 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 1,929 chill hours · 634 mm rain

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

    96%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷MillauOccitanie, France

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 1,817 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 1,817 chill hours · 612 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, almond, olive

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇭SittenValais, Switzerland

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,730 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,730 chill hours · 719 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷DijonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 731 mm rain

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

    95%match
  15. 15

    🇫🇷NeversBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 742 mm rain

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

    95%match
  16. 16

    🇫🇷NancyGrand Est, France

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,544 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,544 chill hours · 740 mm rain

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

    95%match
  17. 17

    🇧🇬BotevgradSofia, Bulgaria

    Zone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,723 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,723 chill hours · 593 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    95%match
  18. 18

    🇷🇸PirotCentral Serbia, Serbia

    Zone 7b · 184 frost-free days · 2,733 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7b · 184 frost-free days · 2,733 chill hours · 599 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇨🇭GenevaSwitzerland

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), kiwifruit, fig

    95%match
  20. 20

    🇧🇬KyustendilBulgaria

    Zone 7b · 184 frost-free days · 2,798 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 7b · 184 frost-free days · 2,798 chill hours · 552 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    95%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.