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Land with a climate like Moscow

🇷🇺Moscow, Russia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Moscow are Kaluga, Russia (99% match), Yartsevo and Kozel’sk. About 981,000 sq mi of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia, Tver Oblast, Russia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Moscow are Kaluga, Russia (99% match), Yartsevo and Kozel’sk. About 2.5 million km² of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia, Tver Oblast, Russia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 160 frost-free days · 3,800 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 6b · 160 frost-free days · 3,800 chill hours · 652 mm rain

What grows in Moscow →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇷🇺Leningradskaya Oblast', Russia

    38k sq mi98k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kudrovo (98), Sertolovo (97)

  2. 2

    🇷🇺Tver Oblast, Russia

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tver (99), Nelidovo (99)

  3. 3

    🇷🇺Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

    28k sq mi71k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nizhniy Novgorod (93), Vyksa (92)

  4. 4

    🇧🇾Vitebsk, Belarus

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vitebsk (97), Lyepyel’ (96)

  5. 5

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Svetlogorsk (94), Dobrush (94)

  6. 6

    🇧🇾Minsk, Belarus

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nesvizh (95), Slutsk (95)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Slavutych (92), Bucha (88)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ovruch (91), Korosten (90)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Sumy, Ukraine

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hlukhiv (94), Shostka (93)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Warmia-Masuria, Poland

    9,700 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Olecko (86), Olsztyn (86)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Lublin, Poland

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tomaszów Lubelski (85), Hrubieszów (84)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Podlasie, Poland

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Białystok (90), Hajnówka (90)

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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    🇷🇺KalugaKaluga Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,820 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,820 chill hours · 586 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇷🇺YartsevoSmolensk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 157 frost-free days · 3,850 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 6b · 157 frost-free days · 3,850 chill hours · 653 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇷🇺Kozel’skKaluga Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 160 frost-free days · 3,789 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 160 frost-free days · 3,789 chill hours · 574 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇷🇺SerpukhovMoscow Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,804 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,804 chill hours · 554 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇷🇺ObninskKaluga Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,847 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,847 chill hours · 586 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇷🇺StupinoMoscow Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,787 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 158 frost-free days · 3,787 chill hours · 556 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇷🇺SmolenskSmolensk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,840 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,840 chill hours · 690 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇷🇺AleksinTula Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,779 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,779 chill hours · 549 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇷🇺ZhukovkaBryansk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,776 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,776 chill hours · 580 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇷🇺SuvorovTula Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,820 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 159 frost-free days · 3,820 chill hours · 573 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇷🇺BryanskBryansk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 168 frost-free days · 3,755 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6b · 168 frost-free days · 3,755 chill hours · 603 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach

    99%match
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    🇷🇺TverTver Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 151 frost-free days · 3,901 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6b · 151 frost-free days · 3,901 chill hours · 605 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇷🇺KarachevBryansk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,784 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,784 chill hours · 582 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇷🇺Roslavl’Smolensk Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 161 frost-free days · 3,807 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 161 frost-free days · 3,807 chill hours · 590 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺NelidovoTver Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 3,873 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 6b · 155 frost-free days · 3,873 chill hours · 671 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺KolomnaMoscow Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,816 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,816 chill hours · 542 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺LyudinovoKaluga Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,809 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,809 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺Staraya RussaNovgorod Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 156 frost-free days · 3,795 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6b · 156 frost-free days · 3,795 chill hours · 608 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺TulaTula Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,738 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,738 chill hours · 544 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇷🇺OrëlOryol oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,729 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,729 chill hours · 583 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, wine grapes

    99%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.