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Land with a climate like Saffron Walden

🇬🇧Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saffron Walden are Loughborough, United Kingdom (99% match), Leicester and Lincoln. About 518,000 sq mi of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saffron Walden are Loughborough, United Kingdom (99% match), Leicester and Lincoln. About 1.3 million km² of land in 23 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Grand Est, France and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 620 mm rain

What grows in Saffron Walden →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    58k sq mi149k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Warwick (99), Royal Leamington Spa (99)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Charleville-Mézières (94), Reims (94)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Delmenhorst (99), Oldenburg (99)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alzenau in Unterfranken (92), Großostheim (92)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sens (92), Auxerre (91)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Centre-Val de Loire, France

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dreux (97), Chartres (95)

  7. 7

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rees (99), Emmerich (99)

  8. 8

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Edinburgh (98), Musselburgh (97)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rathfarnham (99), Dublin (98)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Greater Poland, Poland

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nowy Tomyśl (83), Gostyń (83)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    8,700 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Świnoujście (91), Police (90)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Holstebro (94), Herning (94)

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

    🇬🇧LoughboroughEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 615 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇬🇧LeicesterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 643 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇬🇧LincolnEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 231 frost-free days · 2,209 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 231 frost-free days · 2,209 chill hours · 607 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧NorwichEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, hemp, wine grapes

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇬🇧SwindonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,185 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,185 chill hours · 717 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, hemp

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇬🇧DoncasterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,261 chill hours · 616 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇧NorthamptonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,173 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 224 frost-free days · 2,173 chill hours · 634 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, hemp, wine grapes

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇬🇧CreweEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,272 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,272 chill hours · 704 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, potato

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇬🇧King's LynnEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 643 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato, potato

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇧PurleyEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,980 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,980 chill hours · 723 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, potato, tomato

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇧Kingston upon HullEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 680 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, potato, tomato

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇬🇧SuttonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,952 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,952 chill hours · 712 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, potato, tomato

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇬🇧MaidenheadEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 673 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇬🇧MiddlesbroughEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,231 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,231 chill hours · 729 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, hemp

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇬🇧ReadingEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,922 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 234 frost-free days · 1,922 chill hours · 716 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, potato, tomato

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇬🇧LichfieldEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 725 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, hemp

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇬🇧ShrewsburyEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 225 frost-free days · 2,252 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 225 frost-free days · 2,252 chill hours · 691 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇬🇧MaidstoneEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,962 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 1,962 chill hours · 677 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, peach, tomato

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇬🇧CheltenhamEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 241 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 241 frost-free days · 2,043 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, potato, wine grapes

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇬🇧GloucesterEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,925 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 11 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, potato, tomato

    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.