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Land with a climate like Porthcawl

🇬🇧Porthcawl, Wales, United Kingdom

The towns with the closest growing climate to Porthcawl are Limerick, Ireland (99% match), Waterford and Galway. About 436,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom and Lower Saxony, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Porthcawl are Limerick, Ireland (99% match), Waterford and Galway. About 1.1 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,757 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,757 chill hours · 1,077 mm rain

What grows in Porthcawl →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    62k sq mi162k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bodmin (99), St Austell (99)

  2. 2

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayr (97), Dumfries (97)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wilhelmshaven (95), Norden (94)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sedan (91), Charleville-Mézières (90)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Brittany, France

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Landerneau (99), Morlaix (99)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haltern am See (94), Rhede (94)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Hauts-de-France, France

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hazebrouck (97), Abbeville (97)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Munster, Ireland

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ennis (99), Limerick (99)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wexford (99), Carlow (99)

  10. 10

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bangor (99), Aberystwyth (99)

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    🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Schleswig (92), Eckernförde (92)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰South Denmark, Denmark

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Esbjerg (92), Tønder (92)

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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    🇮🇪LimerickMunster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 1,116 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇮🇪WaterfordMunster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,858 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,858 chill hours · 986 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇮🇪GalwayConnacht, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 1,729 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 1,729 chill hours · 1,168 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧AberystwythWales, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,903 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,903 chill hours · 1,150 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇬🇧ExeterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9b · 273 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 900 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇬🇧PlymouthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,321 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,321 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇧Colwyn BayWales, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,883 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,883 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇮🇪WexfordLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 297 frost-free days · 1,513 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 297 frost-free days · 1,513 chill hours · 983 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇬🇧BristolEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 262 frost-free days · 1,816 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 262 frost-free days · 1,816 chill hours · 893 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, wine grapes

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇧RedruthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,442 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 1,442 chill hours · 1,151 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇮🇪CorkMunster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 1,632 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 1,632 chill hours · 1,074 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇮🇪CarlowLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,823 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,823 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇬🇧PortsmouthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 269 frost-free days · 1,691 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9b · 269 frost-free days · 1,691 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
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    🇮🇪AthloneLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 255 frost-free days · 2,053 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 255 frost-free days · 2,053 chill hours · 999 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇬🇧BournemouthEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,887 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,887 chill hours · 881 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato

    99%match
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    🇬🇧PrestonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,229 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,229 chill hours · 1,165 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇳🇱RotterdamSouth Holland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,237 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,237 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tomato, peach

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇬🇧StroudEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 230 frost-free days · 2,241 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 230 frost-free days · 2,241 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧WarminsterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,138 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,138 chill hours · 834 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇮🇪DroghedaLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,155 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,155 chill hours · 967 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 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.