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Land with a climate like Portland, Maine

🇺🇸Portland, Maine, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Portland, Maine are West Torrington, United States (99% match), Southbridge and Worcester. About 457,000 sq mi of land in 24 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Ohio, United States and Michigan, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Portland, Maine are West Torrington, United States (99% match), Southbridge and Worcester. About 1.2 million km² of land in 24 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Ohio, United States and Michigan, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

What grows in Portland, Maine →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    44k sq mi114k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rome (99), Cortland (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    39k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aurora (94), Solon (94)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    37k sq mi96k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holland (94), Jenison (93)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    36k sq mi93k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prince Edward (97), Quinte West (97)

  5. 5

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (83), Goražde (81)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwamizawa (92), Sapporo (92)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takizawa (86), Hachimantai (85)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    3,900 sq mi10,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmachi (84), Miyota (83)

  9. 9

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    3,700 sq mi9,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (84), Novi Pazar (77)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    3,400 sq mi8,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (79), Labinsk (73)

  11. 11

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sallanches (82), Cluses (76)

  12. 12

    🇦🇹Carinthia, Austria

    2,100 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villach (79), Wolfsberg (77)

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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    🇺🇸West TorringtonConnecticut, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 1,210 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸SouthbridgeMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,165 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,165 chill hours · 1,213 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸WorcesterMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 1,200 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸PortsmouthNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,114 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,114 chill hours · 1,114 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender, sorghum

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸ManchesterNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,210 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,210 chill hours · 1,042 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸CortlandNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 1,004 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸UticaNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 1,088 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸HazletonPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 1,173 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, wine grapes

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸PittsfieldMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 1,079 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸ClayNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes, sorghum

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸LowellMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,061 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,061 chill hours · 1,153 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, lavender

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Back MountainPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 1,014 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸AugustaMaine, United States

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,364 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,364 chill hours · 1,132 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸KeeneNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,344 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,344 chill hours · 1,071 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸QueensburyNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 977 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
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    🇺🇸OswegoNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,239 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,239 chill hours · 1,076 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender, sorghum

    98%match
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    🇺🇸BinghamtonNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,162 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,162 chill hours · 984 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes, sorghum

    98%match
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    🇨🇦CobourgOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 884 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes

    97%match
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    🇺🇸GloucesterMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,939 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,939 chill hours · 1,142 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, sorghum, lavender

    97%match
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    🇺🇸GloversvilleNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,434 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,434 chill hours · 1,147 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    97%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.