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Land with a climate like Rochester, New York

🇺🇸Rochester, New York, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rochester, New York are Ann Arbor, United States (99% match), Vestal and Grand Rapids. About 882,000 sq mi of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Ohio, United States and New York, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rochester, New York are Ann Arbor, United States (99% match), Vestal and Grand Rapids. About 2.3 million km² of land in 29 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Ohio, United States and New York, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Rochester, New York →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    46k sq mi119k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Glenview (99), Morton Grove (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Broadview Heights (99), North Royalton (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vestal (99), Ithaca (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    36k sq mi94k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarnia (99), LaSalle (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (93), Labinsk (92)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (93), Bor (89)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    9,500 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Freilassing (85), Traunreut (85)

  8. 8

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    7,900 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (86), Goražde (86)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Poltava, Ukraine

    7,900 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hadyach (83), Lubny (82)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Drohobych (87), Stryi (87)

  11. 11

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yegorlykskaya (83), Novoshakhtinsk (82)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bila Tserkva (86), Skvyra (85)

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

    🇺🇸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
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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
  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

    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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
  9. 9

    🇺🇸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
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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
  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

    🇺🇸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
  13. 13

    🇨🇦SarniaOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸WyandotteMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 856 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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
  16. 16

    🇺🇸DetroitMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 865 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸SyracuseNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,141 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,141 chill hours · 1,033 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇨🇦LeamingtonOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 907 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸WoosterOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,008 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,008 chill hours · 967 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸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

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.