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Land with a climate like Messina

🇮🇹Messina, Sicily, Italy

The towns with the closest growing climate to Messina are Crotone, Italy (92% match), İskenderun and Samandağ. About 34,000 sq mi of land in 11 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sicily, Italy, Calabria, Italy and Apulia, Italy.The towns with the closest growing climate to Messina are Crotone, Italy (92% match), İskenderun and Samandağ. About 88,000 km² of land in 11 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Sicily, Italy, Calabria, Italy and Apulia, Italy.

Your growing climate

Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 65 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 65 chill hours · 844 mm rain

What grows in Messina →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇹Sicily, Italy

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Palermo (89), Carini (88)

  2. 2

    🇮🇹Calabria, Italy

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Crotone (92), Corigliano Scalo (91)

  3. 3

    🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

    2,500 sq mi6,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallipoli (89), Lecce (84)

  4. 4

    🇹🇳Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia

    2,200 sq mi5,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dar Chabanne (86), Beni Khiar (86)

  5. 5

    🇬🇷West Greece, Greece

    1,400 sq mi3,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pýrgos (70), Amaliáda (65)

  6. 6

    🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

    1,100 sq mi3,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ciutadella (84), Maó (83)

  7. 7

    🇭🇷Split-Dalmatia, Croatia

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

    For example Split (78)

  8. 8

    🇹🇷Hatay, Turkey

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example İskenderun (91), Denizciler (91)

  9. 9

    🇹🇷Adana, Turkey

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yumurtalık (84), Ceyhan (76)

  10. 10

    🇬🇷Epirus, Greece

    700 sq mi1,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Préveza (78), Árta (57)

  11. 11

    🇫🇷Corsica, France

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bastia (80), Ajaccio (52)

  12. 12

    🇭🇷Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubrovnik (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

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    🇮🇹CrotoneCalabria, Italy

    Zone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 332 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 332 chill hours · 723 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, olive

    92%match
  2. 2

    🇹🇷İskenderunHatay, Turkey

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 111 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 111 chill hours · 772 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops

    91%match
  3. 3

    🇹🇷SamandağHatay, Turkey

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 192 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 192 chill hours · 883 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, olive, macadamia

    90%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇹PalermoSicily, Italy

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 90 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 90 chill hours · 477 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, macadamia, rice

    89%match
  5. 5

    🇮🇹Rossano StazioneCalabria, Italy

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 423 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 423 chill hours · 714 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, olive, walnut

    88%match
  6. 6

    🇮🇹CatanzaroCalabria, Italy

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 932 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, olive

    86%match
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    🇪🇸CiutadellaBalearic Islands, Spain

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 292 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 292 chill hours · 584 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, pear, walnut

    84%match
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    🇹🇳KélibiaNabeul Governorate, Tunisia

    Zone 10b · Frost 2 years in 10 · 94 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 10b · Frost 2 years in 10 · 94 chill hours · 516 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇮🇹AgropoliCampania, Italy

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 428 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 428 chill hours · 919 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, olive

    82%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇷CorfuIonian Islands, Greece

    Zone 9b · 318 frost-free days · 555 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 9b · 318 frost-free days · 555 chill hours · 1,052 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    81%match
  11. 11

    🇹🇷MarmarisMuğla, Turkey

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 218 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 218 chill hours · 1,079 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    81%match
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    🇮🇹BrindisiApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 340 frost-free days · 462 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 9b · 340 frost-free days · 462 chill hours · 508 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, pistachio, pear

    81%match
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    🇹🇷OsmaniyeTurkey

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 816 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, olive, walnut

    81%match
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    🇪🇸AlcúdiaBalearic Islands, Spain

    Zone 9b · 342 frost-free days · 405 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9b · 342 frost-free days · 405 chill hours · 705 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, olive, walnut

    81%match
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    🇹🇳HammametNabeul Governorate, Tunisia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 94 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 94 chill hours · 421 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, tea, macadamia

    80%match
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    🇩🇿AnnabaAlgeria

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 236 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 236 chill hours · 866 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, olive, kiwifruit

    80%match
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    🇮🇹CataniaSicily, Italy

    Zone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 407 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 407 chill hours · 536 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, pear, walnut

    80%match
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    🇫🇷BastiaCorsica, France

    Zone 10a · 344 frost-free days · 422 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10a · 344 frost-free days · 422 chill hours · 828 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, olive

    80%match
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    🇮🇹TarantoApulia, Italy

    Zone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 559 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 559 chill hours · 601 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, pear, pistachio

    79%match
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    🇩🇿El KalaEl Tarf, Algeria

    Zone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 300 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 300 chill hours · 938 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, olive

    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.