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Land with a climate like Richmond, Virginia

🇺🇸Richmond, Virginia, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Richmond, Virginia are Danville, United States (99% match), Winston-Salem and Greensboro. About 538,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Richmond, Virginia are Danville, United States (99% match), Winston-Salem and Greensboro. About 1.4 million km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,139 mm rain

What grows in Richmond, Virginia →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    48k sq mi125k km² matching 80% or better

    For example High Point (99), Winston-Salem (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rogers (98), Springdale (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    45k sq mi117k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Knoxville (99), Farragut (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (83), Wuyang (81)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guangshui (78), Xihe (77)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Henan, China

    2,300 sq mi5,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinyang (80), Huangchuan (79)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hiroshima, Japan

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miyoshi (83), Shin’ichi (83)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    1,700 sq mi4,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasayama (87), Tamba-Sasayama (87)

  9. 9

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    1,700 sq mi4,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vicenza (85), Thiene (85)

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,600 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kutaisi (91), Zestaponi (88)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Mie, Japan

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iga (88), Ueno-ebisumachi (88)

  12. 12

    🇮🇹Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sacile (86), Cordenons (86)

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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    🇺🇸DanvilleVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 1,113 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Winston-SalemNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 1,078 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸GreensboroNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,598 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,598 chill hours · 1,092 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸HickoryNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,193 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸AsheboroNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,555 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,555 chill hours · 1,137 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Roanoke RapidsNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 1,148 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸RaleighNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 1,161 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸Rocky MountNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸FredericksburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 2,032 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 2,032 chill hours · 1,086 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸HendersonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸LynchburgVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,964 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,964 chill hours · 1,051 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸CharlottesvilleVirginia, United States

    Zone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 1,120 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸SanfordNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 1,158 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸WashingtonDistrict of Columbia, United States

    Zone 7b · 223 frost-free days · 2,016 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 223 frost-free days · 2,016 chill hours · 1,092 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸RoanokeVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 217 frost-free days · 1,983 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 217 frost-free days · 1,983 chill hours · 1,030 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸GastoniaNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 1,152 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸PinehurstNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,164 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸SalisburyMaryland, United States

    Zone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 1,920 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 1,920 chill hours · 1,182 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸KnoxvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 1,236 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MonroeNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    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.