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Land with a climate like Portage, Indiana

🇺🇸Portage, Indiana, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Portage, Indiana are Kankakee, United States (99% match), Fort Wayne and Marion. About 794,000 sq mi of land in 25 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Portage, Indiana are Kankakee, United States (99% match), Fort Wayne and Marion. About 2.1 million km² of land in 25 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 993 mm rain

What grows in Portage, Indiana →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    48k sq mi125k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bourbonnais (99), Kankakee (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clinton (98), Muscatine (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marion (99), Defiance (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaSalle (99), Tecumseh (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (93), Gornji Milanovac (91)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (92), Labinsk (89)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rosenheim (86), Kolbermoor (85)

  8. 8

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apatin (84), Bačka Topola (83)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuzla (89), Travnik (88)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (82), Zhmerynka (81)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stryi (86), Drohobych (86)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (83), Bila Tserkva (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

  1. 1

    🇺🇸KankakeeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Fort WayneIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 909 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸DefianceOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 872 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸South BendIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸SidneyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 951 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Mount VernonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 1,009 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸FindlayOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸MansfieldOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 994 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸AuroraIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 1,005 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸LimaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 912 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸TiffinOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 923 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸LorainOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,990 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,990 chill hours · 905 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KokomoIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸SanduskyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸BloomingtonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 190 frost-free days · 2,921 chill hours · 973 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸PataskalaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,908 chill hours · 1,025 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸MuncieIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,927 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸North CantonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,999 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,999 chill hours · 965 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸StowOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 986 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    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.