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Land with a climate like Missoula

🇺🇸Missoula, Montana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Missoula are Kalispell, United States (96% match), Idaho Falls and Pocatello. About 194,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Idaho, United States and Washington, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Missoula are Kalispell, United States (96% match), Idaho Falls and Pocatello. About 503,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Montana, United States, Idaho, United States and Washington, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 344 mm rain

What grows in Missoula →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Montana, United States

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kalispell (96), Bozeman (91)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Idaho, United States

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Idaho Falls (94), Pocatello (93)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Washington, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Spokane (83), Spokane Valley (83)

  4. 4

    🇹🇷Sivas, Turkey

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sivas (75), Gemerek (74)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦British Columbia, Canada

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kamloops (85), Penticton (80)

  6. 6

    🇹🇷Çankırı, Turkey

    1,600 sq mi4,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Çerkeş (78), Çankırı (59)

  7. 7

    🇹🇷Kastamonu, Turkey

    1,400 sq mi3,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tosya (69), Kastamonu (67)

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    🇰🇬Batken, Kyrgyzstan

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇰🇬Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Talas (80)

  10. 10

    🇨🇦Alberta, Canada

    400 sq mi1,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lethbridge (77), Medicine Hat (57)

  11. 11

    🇰🇿Zhambyl, Kazakhstan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Merke (59)

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    🇰🇬Chuy Region, Kyrgyzstan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kara-Balta (61), Belovodskoye (59)

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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    🇺🇸KalispellMontana, United States

    Zone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 450 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Idaho FallsIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 117 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    94%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸PocatelloIdaho, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,326 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,326 chill hours · 281 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), soybean

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸RexburgIdaho, United States

    Zone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6a · 112 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 321 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 14 great-fit crops

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸BozemanMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6a · 132 frost-free days · 3,493 chill hours · 433 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    91%match
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    🇺🇸Great FallsMontana, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 352 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), tomato

    90%match
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    🇺🇸HelenaMontana, United States

    Zone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 133 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    88%match
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    🇺🇸LoganUtah, United States

    Zone 6a · 143 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 6a · 143 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 418 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), soybean

    86%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸BendOregon, United States

    Zone 7b · 108 frost-free days · 3,136 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 7b · 108 frost-free days · 3,136 chill hours · 305 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 14 great-fit crops

    86%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦KamloopsBritish Columbia, Canada

    Zone 6b · 146 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 146 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    85%match
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    🇺🇸SheridanWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 130 frost-free days · 3,388 chill hours · 357 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇹🇷BayburtBayburt Province, Turkey

    Zone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 457 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), tomato

    83%match
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    🇺🇸BillingsMontana, United States

    Zone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 148 frost-free days · 3,248 chill hours · 326 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), soybean

    83%match
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    🇺🇸SpokaneWashington, United States

    Zone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,227 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,227 chill hours · 438 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), peach

    83%match
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    🇺🇸CasperWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 139 frost-free days · 3,338 chill hours · 274 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), soybean

    82%match
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    🇺🇸PullmanWashington, United States

    Zone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,247 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,247 chill hours · 511 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 14 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇺🇸GilletteWyoming, United States

    Zone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6a · 136 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 387 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    81%match
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    🇺🇸Klamath FallsOregon, United States

    Zone 7b · 128 frost-free days · 2,942 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7b · 128 frost-free days · 2,942 chill hours · 356 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn)

    80%match
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    🇰🇬TalasTalas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    Zone 6a · 158 frost-free days · 3,335 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 158 frost-free days · 3,335 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, maize (corn), tomato

    80%match
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    🇺🇸EllensburgWashington, United States

    Zone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 9.5 in rainZone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 242 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, peach, maize (corn)

    80%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.