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Land with a climate like Saalfeld

🇩🇪Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saalfeld are Finsterwalde, Germany (99% match), Żary and Nordhausen. About 981,000 sq mi of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saalfeld are Finsterwalde, Germany (99% match), Żary and Nordhausen. About 2.5 million km² of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,044 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,044 chill hours · 655 mm rain

What grows in Saalfeld →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    40k sq mi104k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Humberstone (92), Evington (92)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    27k sq mi69k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Schwabach (99), Zirndorf (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haguenau (98), Verdun (97)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Göttingen (99), Helmstedt (99)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chamalières (91), Annemasse (89)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gornji Milanovac (89), Bor (87)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Autun (95), Le Creusot (94)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ulm (99), Pfullingen (99)

  9. 9

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brovary (91), Hostomel (91)

  10. 10

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Žytkavičy (92), Kalinkovichi (88)

  11. 11

    🇧🇾Brest, Belarus

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brest (94), Pinsk (93)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rawicz (99), Leszno (99)

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

    🇩🇪FinsterwaldeBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇵🇱ŻaryLubusz, Poland

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,082 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,082 chill hours · 635 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇩🇪NordhausenThuringia, Germany

    Zone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 3,104 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 3,104 chill hours · 666 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇩🇪UlmBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 188 frost-free days · 3,118 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8a · 188 frost-free days · 3,118 chill hours · 741 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪NurembergBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 185 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 185 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 677 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, maize (corn)

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇵🇱StargardWest Pomerania, Poland

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,085 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,085 chill hours · 569 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇨🇿PilsenPlzeň Region, Czechia

    Zone 8a · 178 frost-free days · 3,160 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 178 frost-free days · 3,160 chill hours · 671 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇩🇪BayreuthBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 178 frost-free days · 3,172 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8a · 178 frost-free days · 3,172 chill hours · 742 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇩🇪GörlitzSaxony, Germany

    Zone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 199 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇩🇪KasselHesse, Germany

    Zone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 205 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇩🇪Bad HersfeldHesse, Germany

    Zone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 2,967 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8a · 192 frost-free days · 2,967 chill hours · 671 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇩🇪Schwedt (Oder)Brandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,000 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 3,000 chill hours · 509 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇩🇪ChemnitzSaxony, Germany

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 3,026 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 3,026 chill hours · 721 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇩🇪EberswaldeBrandenburg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,014 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8a · 202 frost-free days · 3,014 chill hours · 629 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇨🇿MostÚstí nad Labem Region, Czechia

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,987 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,987 chill hours · 675 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), walnut

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇵🇱Zielona GóraLubusz, Poland

    Zone 8a · 200 frost-free days · 3,103 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 200 frost-free days · 3,103 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇩🇪StuttgartBaden-Wurttemberg, Germany

    Zone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8a · 203 frost-free days · 2,837 chill hours · 686 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇩🇪AmbergBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 184 frost-free days · 3,170 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 184 frost-free days · 3,170 chill hours · 760 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇩🇪WürzburgBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,904 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8a · 195 frost-free days · 2,904 chill hours · 635 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪IngolstadtBavaria, Germany

    Zone 8a · 186 frost-free days · 3,108 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8a · 186 frost-free days · 3,108 chill hours · 735 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn)

    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.