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Land with a climate like Norton Shores

🇺🇸Norton Shores, Michigan, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Norton Shores are Sarnia, Canada (99% match), Ithaca and Auburn. About 913,000 sq mi of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Illinois, United States and Ontario, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Norton Shores are Sarnia, Canada (99% match), Ithaca and Auburn. About 2.4 million km² of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Illinois, United States and Ontario, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,205 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 7a · 180 frost-free days · 3,205 chill hours · 843 mm rain

What grows in Norton Shores →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    44k sq mi113k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Irondequoit (99), Gates-North Gates (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waukegan (99), North Chicago (99)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarnia (99), Hamilton (99)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    42k sq mi108k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashtabula (99), Painesville (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    18k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (94), Bor (90)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bad Tölz (85), Erding (85)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (90), Bugojno (86)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (90), Labinsk (86)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ladyzhyn (84), Vinnytsya (84)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (87), Bila Tserkva (87)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Cherkasy, Ukraine

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bahacheve (84), Zvenyhorodka (84)

  12. 12

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    7,500 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sallanches (85), Cluses (82)

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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    🇨🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸BuffaloNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 951 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇦St. CatharinesOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,115 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,115 chill hours · 856 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦ChathamOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 879 mm rain

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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KenoshaWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 915 mm rain

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

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸EriePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 1,053 mm rain

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

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸ScrantonPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 986 mm rain

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

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
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    🇨🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
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    🇺🇸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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    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.