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Land with a climate like North Chicago

🇺🇸North Chicago, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to North Chicago are Forest Hills, United States (99% match), Jackson and Milwaukee. About 764,000 sq mi of land in 28 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to North Chicago are Forest Hills, United States (99% match), Jackson and Milwaukee. About 2.0 million km² of land in 28 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,184 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,184 chill hours · 911 mm rain

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Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    47k sq mi123k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clinton (96), Dubuque (96)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    44k sq mi114k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yorkville (99), Oswego (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashtabula (99), Streetsboro (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kingsville (99), Leamington (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (92), Gornji Milanovac (85)

  6. 6

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (83), Zhmerynka (82)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Drohobych (90), Stebnyk (90)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    7,800 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bad Tölz (83), Weilheim (83)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    7,000 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwamizawa (87), Ebetsu (86)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (86), Bugojno (81)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Subcarpathia, Poland

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sanok (86), Krosno (85)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kamyanets-Podilskyi (85), Dunayivtsi (85)

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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    🇺🇸Forest HillsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,272 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,272 chill hours · 931 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸MilwaukeeWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,232 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,232 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MuskegonMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸BataviaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 890 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸AuburnNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸AshtabulaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸VestalNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Ann ArborMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 862 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇨🇦LeamingtonOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 907 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇨🇦LaSalleOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,102 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,102 chill hours · 869 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸FlintMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 774 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸RochesterNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 864 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸DeKalbIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 961 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇦SarniaOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%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.