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Land with a climate like Marseille

🇫🇷Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Marseille are Perpignan, France (99% match), Béziers and Montpellier. About 241,000 sq mi of land in 16 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sardinia, Italy, Apulia, Italy and Sicily, Italy.The towns with the closest growing climate to Marseille are Perpignan, France (99% match), Béziers and Montpellier. About 625,000 km² of land in 16 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sardinia, Italy, Apulia, Italy and Sicily, Italy.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 314 frost-free days · 713 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9b · 314 frost-free days · 713 chill hours · 536 mm rain

What grows in Marseille →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇹Sardinia, Italy

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sassari (95), Olbia (95)

  2. 2

    🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Canosa di Puglia (99), Francavilla Fontana (99)

  3. 3

    🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Belpasso (95), Biancavilla (95)

  4. 4

    🇪🇸Catalonia, Spain

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Figueres (99), Roses (98)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Draguignan (97), Fréjus (96)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Occitanie, France

    7,200 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Perpignan (99), Agde (99)

  7. 7

    🇪🇸Valencia, Spain

    6,900 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Benicàssim (96), Onda (96)

  8. 8

    🇬🇷Peloponnese, Greece

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sparta (91), Árgos (88)

  9. 9

    🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Inca (98), Calvià (97)

  10. 10

    🇬🇷West Greece, Greece

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aígio (92), Pátra (90)

  11. 11

    🇬🇷East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alexandroupoli (90), Komotiní (88)

  12. 12

    🇹🇷Canakkale, Turkey

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Biga (88), Ezine (87)

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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    🇫🇷PerpignanOccitanie, France

    Zone 9b · 309 frost-free days · 742 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 9b · 309 frost-free days · 742 chill hours · 517 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷BéziersOccitanie, France

    Zone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 881 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 293 frost-free days · 881 chill hours · 559 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷MontpellierOccitanie, France

    Zone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 603 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇹Francavilla FontanaApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 737 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 737 chill hours · 569 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇪🇸FigueresCatalonia, Spain

    Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 852 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 852 chill hours · 520 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇮🇹AndriaApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 319 frost-free days · 635 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 319 frost-free days · 635 chill hours · 474 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), soybean, kiwifruit

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇮🇹CivitavecchiaLazio, Italy

    Zone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 502 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇪🇸BarcelonaCatalonia, Spain

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 574 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 574 chill hours · 575 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, maize (corn)

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇮🇹RomeLazio, Italy

    Zone 9a · 292 frost-free days · 816 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 292 frost-free days · 816 chill hours · 702 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, maize (corn), avocado

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇪🇸TarragonaCatalonia, Spain

    Zone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 590 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 590 chill hours · 468 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), kiwifruit, soybean

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇪🇸CalviàBalearic Islands, Spain

    Zone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 474 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, maize (corn), soybean

    97%match
  12. 12

    🇮🇹PiombinoTuscany, Italy

    Zone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 646 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 646 chill hours · 568 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇮🇹LecceApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 511 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 511 chill hours · 616 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), sorghum, avocado

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷AjaccioCorsica, France

    Zone 9b · 299 frost-free days · 773 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9b · 299 frost-free days · 773 chill hours · 640 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇪🇸Vilanova i la GeltrúCatalonia, Spain

    Zone 9b · 319 frost-free days · 627 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9b · 319 frost-free days · 627 chill hours · 542 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    96%match
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    🇫🇷NîmesOccitanie, France

    Zone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 720 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, kiwifruit, maize (corn)

    96%match
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    🇭🇷ŠibenikŠibenik-Knin, Croatia

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 961 chill hours · 692 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, maize (corn)

    96%match
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    🇮🇹BariApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 696 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 304 frost-free days · 696 chill hours · 569 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇪🇸PollençaBalearic Islands, Spain

    Zone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 525 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 525 chill hours · 704 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado, kiwifruit

    96%match
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    🇪🇸ManacorBalearic Islands, Spain

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 526 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 526 chill hours · 633 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), avocado

    96%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.