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Land with a climate like North Platte

🇺🇸North Platte, Nebraska, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to North Platte are Kearney, United States (94% match), Rapid City and Grand Island. About 183,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Nebraska, United States, Kansas, United States and South Dakota, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to North Platte are Kearney, United States (94% match), Rapid City and Grand Island. About 475,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Nebraska, United States, Kansas, United States and South Dakota, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 6a · 157 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 499 mm rain

What grows in North Platte →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Nebraska, United States

    29k sq mi75k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kearney (94), Grand Island (93)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Kansas, United States

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hays (87), Garden City (80)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸South Dakota, United States

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rapid City (94), Mitchell (83)

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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    🇺🇸KearneyNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,023 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇺🇸Rapid CitySouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 6b · 152 frost-free days · 3,260 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 6b · 152 frost-free days · 3,260 chill hours · 441 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇺🇸Grand IslandNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 632 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸HaysKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,584 chill hours · 562 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸NorfolkNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 681 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇺🇸ColumbusNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇺🇸MitchellSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇺🇸LincolnNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 2,885 chill hours · 732 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇺🇸FremontNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,043 chill hours · 767 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    80%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    80%match
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    🇺🇸Garden CityKansas, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,442 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 2,442 chill hours · 458 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, saffron

    80%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 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇦🇲AbovyanKotayk, Armenia

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,112 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,112 chill hours · 374 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    78%match
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    🇺🇸Sioux CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 5b · 172 frost-free days · 3,215 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    77%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 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇺🇸Dodge CityKansas, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,418 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,418 chill hours · 534 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    77%match
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    🇺🇸OmahaNebraska, United States

    Zone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 184 frost-free days · 2,965 chill hours · 770 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇺🇸CheyenneWyoming, United States

    Zone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 140 frost-free days · 3,310 chill hours · 342 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    75%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    75%match
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    🇺🇸EvansColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 157 frost-free days · 2,818 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6b · 157 frost-free days · 2,818 chill hours · 319 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    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.