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Land with a climate like Medicine Hat

🇨🇦Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

The towns with the closest growing climate to Medicine Hat are Dickinson, United States (96% match), Williston and Swift Current. About 247,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Alberta, Canada and Saskatchewan, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Medicine Hat are Dickinson, United States (96% match), Williston and Swift Current. About 639,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Alberta, Canada and Saskatchewan, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 5b · 131 frost-free days · 3,772 chill hours · 337 mm rain

What grows in Medicine Hat →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Dakota, United States

    40k sq mi104k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dickinson (96), Williston (96)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    29k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lethbridge (94), Calgary (92)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Saskatchewan, Canada

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Swift Current (95), Moose Jaw (86)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸South Dakota, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aberdeen (84), Watertown (81)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    3,900 sq mi10,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Panjim (54), Jelilyüzi (54)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moorhead (79), Hibbing (73)

  7. 7

    🇰🇬Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

  8. 8

    🇰🇿Almaty, Kazakhstan

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇹🇷Kars Province, Turkey

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kars (85)

  10. 10

    🇨🇦British Columbia, Canada

    400 sq mi1,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cranbrook (79), Fort St. John (66)

  11. 11

    🇦🇲Shirak, Armenia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Artik (78), Gyumri (77)

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

    🇺🇸DickinsonNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5a · 138 frost-free days · 3,691 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), tomato

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸WillistonNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,697 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,697 chill hours · 373 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), tomato

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇦Swift CurrentSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 5a · 128 frost-free days · 3,899 chill hours · 411 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 13 great-fit crops

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇦LethbridgeAlberta, Canada

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,698 chill hours · 382 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇦CalgaryAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 5b · 117 frost-free days · 3,842 chill hours · 421 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 13 great-fit crops

    92%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸BismarckNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 4b · 144 frost-free days · 3,664 chill hours · 467 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), soybean

    90%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸MinotNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops

    89%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇦EdmontonAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5a · 125 frost-free days · 3,961 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5a · 125 frost-free days · 3,961 chill hours · 456 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 13 great-fit crops

    88%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸JamestownNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 4b · 139 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 515 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    88%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦Moose JawSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4b · 131 frost-free days · 3,900 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 4b · 131 frost-free days · 3,900 chill hours · 408 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 13 great-fit crops

    86%match
  11. 11

    🇹🇷KarsKars Province, Turkey

    Zone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,540 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,540 chill hours · 447 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops

    85%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇦Red DeerAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5a · 115 frost-free days · 3,949 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5a · 115 frost-free days · 3,949 chill hours · 450 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 13 great-fit crops

    84%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸AberdeenSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    84%match
  14. 14

    🇨🇦CamroseAlberta, Canada

    Zone 5a · 120 frost-free days · 4,013 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 5a · 120 frost-free days · 4,013 chill hours · 453 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 13 great-fit crops

    82%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸WatertownSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    81%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸BrookingsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    81%match
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    🇷🇺MagnitogorskChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 4b · 137 frost-free days · 3,960 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 4b · 137 frost-free days · 3,960 chill hours · 350 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 13 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇺🇸Grand ForksNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,764 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 4b · 142 frost-free days · 3,764 chill hours · 535 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    80%match
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    🇨🇦CranbrookBritish Columbia, Canada

    Zone 6b · 121 frost-free days · 3,746 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6b · 121 frost-free days · 3,746 chill hours · 465 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 13 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇺🇸FargoNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 591 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    79%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.