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Land with a climate like Montrose

🇺🇸Montrose, Colorado, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Montrose are Cedar City, United States (93% match), Gallup and Farmington. About 155,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Colorado, United States, New Mexico, United States and Utah, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Montrose are Cedar City, United States (93% match), Gallup and Farmington. About 401,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Colorado, United States, New Mexico, United States and Utah, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 2,894 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 6a · 154 frost-free days · 2,894 chill hours · 222 mm rain

What grows in Montrose →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Colorado, United States

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Grand Junction (91), Clifton (90)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New Mexico, United States

    21k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallup (93), Farmington (92)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Utah, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cedar City (93), Saratoga Springs (88)

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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    🇺🇸Cedar CityUtah, United States

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 2,868 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 2,868 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, sorghum

    93%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸GallupNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 6b · 150 frost-free days · 2,774 chill hours · 9.9 in rainZone 6b · 150 frost-free days · 2,774 chill hours · 251 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    93%match
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    🇺🇸FarmingtonNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 2,558 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 2,558 chill hours · 195 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, sorghum, walnut

    92%match
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    🇺🇸Santa FeNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 2,715 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 2,715 chill hours · 351 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, wine grapes

    91%match
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    🇺🇸Grand JunctionColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 195 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, walnut, rice

    91%match
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    🇺🇸Cañon CityColorado, United States

    Zone 7a · 160 frost-free days · 2,502 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7a · 160 frost-free days · 2,502 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, wine grapes

    90%match
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    🇺🇸LongmontColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 153 frost-free days · 2,823 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6b · 153 frost-free days · 2,823 chill hours · 375 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    85%match
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    🇺🇸DenverColorado, United States

    Zone 7a · 161 frost-free days · 2,659 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 7a · 161 frost-free days · 2,659 chill hours · 375 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, sorghum

    85%match
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    🇺🇸PuebloColorado, United States

    Zone 7a · 165 frost-free days · 2,447 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7a · 165 frost-free days · 2,447 chill hours · 285 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, sorghum, walnut

    84%match
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    🇺🇸Colorado SpringsColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 2,859 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 2,859 chill hours · 358 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    84%match
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    🇺🇸Castle RockColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 141 frost-free days · 2,942 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6b · 141 frost-free days · 2,942 chill hours · 377 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇺🇸Fort CollinsColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 2,944 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 2,944 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    83%match
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    🇺🇸DurangoColorado, United States

    Zone 6a · 139 frost-free days · 3,084 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6a · 139 frost-free days · 3,084 chill hours · 422 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇺🇸ProvoUtah, United States

    Zone 6b · 150 frost-free days · 2,928 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 6b · 150 frost-free days · 2,928 chill hours · 396 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    82%match
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    🇺🇸Enchanted HillsNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,140 chill hours · 9.2 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,140 chill hours · 234 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, sorghum

    77%match
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    🇺🇸ElkoNevada, United States

    Zone 6b · 128 frost-free days · 3,231 chill hours · 9.6 in rainZone 6b · 128 frost-free days · 3,231 chill hours · 243 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 18 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇺🇸Los LunasNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 2,104 chill hours · 8.1 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 2,104 chill hours · 207 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut, sorghum

    76%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 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    75%match
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    🇺🇸Carson CityNevada, United States

    Zone 7a · 149 frost-free days · 2,670 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 7a · 149 frost-free days · 2,670 chill hours · 226 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    74%match
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    🇺🇸Twin FallsIdaho, United States

    Zone 7a · 156 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 7a · 156 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 226 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, walnut

    73%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.