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Land with a climate like Portage, Michigan

🇺🇸Portage, Michigan, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Portage, Michigan are Adrian, United States (99% match), Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. About 784,000 sq mi of land in 26 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 Portage, Michigan are Adrian, United States (99% match), Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. About 2.0 million km² of land in 26 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,154 chill hours · 938 mm rain

What grows in Portage, Michigan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    47k sq mi122k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clinton (98), Dubuque (97)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Buffalo Grove (99), Hoffman Estates (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashland (99), Broadview Heights (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    34k sq mi89k km² matching 80% or better

    For example LaSalle (99), Tecumseh (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (93), Bor (88)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (92), Labinsk (90)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (89), Bugojno (87)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stryi (87), Drohobych (87)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (82), Mohyliv-Podilskyy (82)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Skvyra (84), Bila Tserkva (84)

  11. 11

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Suvorovskaya (87), Svobody (87)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Subcarpathia, Poland

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jasło (84), Krosno (84)

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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    🇺🇸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
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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
  5. 5

    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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
  8. 8

    🇺🇸ElmiraNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 875 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸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
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸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

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸Crystal LakeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,187 chill hours · 960 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸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
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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
  16. 16

    🇺🇸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
  17. 17

    🇺🇸SaginawMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 786 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸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
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    🇺🇸ChicagoIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,006 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,006 chill hours · 991 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 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.