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Land with a climate like Longyearbyen

🇸🇯Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

The towns with the closest growing climate to Longyearbyen are Kiruna, Sweden (56% match), Kirovsk and Zapolyarnyy. About 30,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.The towns with the closest growing climate to Longyearbyen are Kiruna, Sweden (56% match), Kirovsk and Zapolyarnyy. About 77,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 64 frost-free days · 4,360 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 5b · 64 frost-free days · 4,360 chill hours · 361 mm rain

What grows in Longyearbyen →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇸🇯Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇸🇪KirunaNorrbotten, Sweden

    Zone 5b · 94 frost-free days · 4,287 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 5b · 94 frost-free days · 4,287 chill hours · 557 mm rain

    56%match
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    🇷🇺KirovskMurmansk, Russia

    Zone 5a · 81 frost-free days · 4,316 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 81 frost-free days · 4,316 chill hours · 614 mm rain

    55%match
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    🇷🇺ZapolyarnyyMurmansk, Russia

    Zone 6a · 104 frost-free days · 4,246 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6a · 104 frost-free days · 4,246 chill hours · 565 mm rain

    51%match
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    🇷🇺Narian-MarNenets, Russia

    Zone 4a · 80 frost-free days · 4,241 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4a · 80 frost-free days · 4,241 chill hours · 483 mm rain

    43%match
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    🇬🇱NuukSermersooq, Greenland

    Zone 7a · 101 frost-free days · 4,276 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7a · 101 frost-free days · 4,276 chill hours · 612 mm rain

    43%match
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    🇷🇺KovdorMurmansk, Russia

    Zone 5a · 94 frost-free days · 4,252 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5a · 94 frost-free days · 4,252 chill hours · 583 mm rain

    37%match
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    🇷🇺MonchegorskMurmansk, Russia

    Zone 5a · 109 frost-free days · 4,211 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 5a · 109 frost-free days · 4,211 chill hours · 500 mm rain

    35%match
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    🇷🇺MurmanskRussia

    Zone 6a · 111 frost-free days · 4,211 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6a · 111 frost-free days · 4,211 chill hours · 506 mm rain

    33%match
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    🇷🇺KandalakshaMurmansk, Russia

    Zone 5a · 109 frost-free days · 4,185 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 5a · 109 frost-free days · 4,185 chill hours · 525 mm rain

    32%match
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    🇷🇺VorkutaKomi, Russia

    Zone 3b · 67 frost-free days · 4,311 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 3b · 67 frost-free days · 4,311 chill hours · 585 mm rain

    27%match
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    🇷🇺UsinskKomi, Russia

    Zone 4a · 86 frost-free days · 4,245 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 4a · 86 frost-free days · 4,245 chill hours · 542 mm rain

    24%match
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    🇳🇴AltaFinnmark, Norway

    Zone 6b · 131 frost-free days · 4,151 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6b · 131 frost-free days · 4,151 chill hours · 444 mm rain

    24%match
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    🇫🇮RovaniemiLapland, Finland

    Zone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 4,178 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 4,178 chill hours · 629 mm rain

    20%match
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    🇷🇺AnadyrChukotka, Russia

    Zone 3a · 80 frost-free days · 4,323 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 3a · 80 frost-free days · 4,323 chill hours · 346 mm rain

    19%match
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    🇷🇺KostomukshaKarelia, Russia

    Zone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 4,167 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 4,167 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    18%match
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    🇷🇺MagadanMagadan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4a · 108 frost-free days · 4,232 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4a · 108 frost-free days · 4,232 chill hours · 482 mm rain

    18%match
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    🇷🇺IntaKomi, Russia

    Zone 3b · 74 frost-free days · 4,233 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 3b · 74 frost-free days · 4,233 chill hours · 548 mm rain

    16%match
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    🇷🇺MirnyyArkhangelskaya, Russia

    Zone 5a · 111 frost-free days · 4,143 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 111 frost-free days · 4,143 chill hours · 613 mm rain

    15%match
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    🇷🇺PechoraKomi, Russia

    Zone 3b · 92 frost-free days · 4,206 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 3b · 92 frost-free days · 4,206 chill hours · 609 mm rain

    14%match
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    🇷🇺Arkhangel’skArkhangelskaya, Russia

    Zone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 4,098 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 5b · 112 frost-free days · 4,098 chill hours · 560 mm rain

    14%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.