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Land with a climate like Minot

🇺🇸Minot, North Dakota, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minot are Moose Jaw, Canada (97% match), Swift Current and Bismarck. About 432,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Saskatchewan, Canada and Minnesota, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minot are Moose Jaw, Canada (97% match), Swift Current and Bismarck. About 1.1 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Dakota, United States, Saskatchewan, Canada and Minnesota, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Minot →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Dakota, United States

    43k sq mi112k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bismarck (96), Grand Forks (95)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Saskatchewan, Canada

    28k sq mi73k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moose Jaw (97), Swift Current (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    24k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moorhead (92), Hibbing (88)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Chelyabinsk, Russia

    21k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Troitsk (86), Kartaly (85)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Edmonton (91), Medicine Hat (89)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸South Dakota, United States

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aberdeen (92), Watertown (91)

  7. 7

    🇰🇿Kostanay, Kazakhstan

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kostanay (85), Rudnyy (84)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Bashkortostan Republic, Russia

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sibay (86), Baymak (86)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Altai Krai, Russia

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rubtsovsk (85), Aleysk (84)

  10. 10

    🇰🇿Karaganda, Kazakhstan

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Temirtau (79), Saran (78)

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    🇰🇿Aqmola, Kazakhstan

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Atbasar (74), Stepnogorsk (70)

  12. 12

    🇨🇦Manitoba, Canada

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Winnipeg (83), Brandon (80)

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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    🇨🇦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 11 great-fit crops

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇦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 11 great-fit crops

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), pear

    96%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), pear

    95%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇦ReginaSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 130 frost-free days · 3,932 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 4a · 130 frost-free days · 3,932 chill hours · 444 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 11 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸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 10 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    94%match
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    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, pear

    92%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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    92%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦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 11 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, maize (corn)

    91%match
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    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, tomato

    91%match
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    🇨🇦Medicine HatAlberta, Canada

    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

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, pear

    89%match
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    🇺🇸HibbingMinnesota, United States

    Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 11 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇷🇺SibayBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 4b · 138 frost-free days · 3,966 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 4b · 138 frost-free days · 3,966 chill hours · 364 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 11 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇨🇦SaskatoonSaskatchewan, Canada

    Zone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,994 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 4a · 123 frost-free days · 3,994 chill hours · 387 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 11 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇺🇸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 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, pear, tomato

    86%match
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    🇷🇺TroitskChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 4a · 140 frost-free days · 3,931 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 4a · 140 frost-free days · 3,931 chill hours · 358 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 11 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇷🇺KartalyChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 4b · 137 frost-free days · 3,948 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 4b · 137 frost-free days · 3,948 chill hours · 339 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 11 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇷🇺RubtsovskAltai Krai, Russia

    Zone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,929 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,929 chill hours · 351 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 11 great-fit crops

    85%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.