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Land with a climate like Ratingen

🇩🇪Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ratingen are Liège, Belgium (99% match), Charleroi and Tienen. About 598,000 sq mi of land in 30 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ratingen are Liège, Belgium (99% match), Charleroi and Tienen. About 1.5 million km² of land in 30 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, New Aquitaine, France and Bavaria, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,295 chill hours · 869 mm rain

What grows in Ratingen →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    57k sq mi148k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mangotsfield (99), Cheltenham (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    28k sq mi72k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (93), Limoges (92)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alzenau in Unterfranken (99), Großostheim (99)

  4. 4

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sedan (99), Charleville-Mézières (99)

  5. 5

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Osnabrück (99), Nordhorn (99)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montbéliard (95), Audincourt (95)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aachen (99), Bielefeld (99)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Carlow (93), Dublin (92)

  9. 9

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kołobrzeg (93), Gryfice (92)

  10. 10

    🇩🇰South Denmark, Denmark

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Odense (95), Tønder (93)

  11. 11

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (93), Herning (92)

  12. 12

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport (97), Cardiff (96)

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

    🇧🇪LiègeWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,335 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,335 chill hours · 859 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇧🇪CharleroiWallonia, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,266 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 2,266 chill hours · 806 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇧🇪TienenFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,210 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 243 frost-free days · 2,210 chill hours · 760 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇧🇪AntwerpFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,071 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,071 chill hours · 811 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇧🇪GentFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 2,029 chill hours · 822 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇳🇱EindhovenNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 801 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇧🇪BrusselsBrussels Capital, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 811 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪AachenNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 876 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇧🇪MaaseikFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,367 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,367 chill hours · 724 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇳🇱TilburgNorth Brabant, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇩🇪BielefeldNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 850 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪OsnabrückLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 223 frost-free days · 2,653 chill hours · 844 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇳🇱NijmegenGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷ValenciennesHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,145 chill hours · 741 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇫🇷LilleHauts-de-France, France

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,047 chill hours · 740 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇳🇱ZwolleOverijssel, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,473 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 226 frost-free days · 2,473 chill hours · 839 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇳🇱ArnhemGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,475 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,475 chill hours · 858 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇳🇱LichtenvoordeGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,538 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,538 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇳🇱AmsterdamNorth Holland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 908 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪MünsterNorth Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,537 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,537 chill hours · 765 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    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.