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Land with a climate like Saginaw, Michigan

🇺🇸Saginaw, Michigan, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saginaw, Michigan are Lansing, United States (99% match), Jackson and Grand Rapids. About 855,000 sq mi of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, New York, United States and Illinois, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saginaw, Michigan are Lansing, United States (99% match), Jackson and Grand Rapids. About 2.2 million km² of land in 20 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, New York, United States and Illinois, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,261 chill hours · 786 mm rain

What grows in Saginaw, Michigan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (97), Clinton (94)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Henrietta (99), Gates-North Gates (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    39k sq mi100k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mundelein (99), Lake Zurich (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    34k sq mi88k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarnia (99), Chatham (98)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Rostov, Russia

    16k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gukovo (85), Donetsk (85)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Otradnaya (88), Mostovskoy (86)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bila Tserkva (90), Skvyra (90)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Kharkiv, Ukraine

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lozova (88), Liubotyn (87)

  9. 9

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (86), Bor (84)

  10. 10

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Homyel' (86), Dobrush (84)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Donetsk, Ukraine

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Debaltseve (87), Horlivka (86)

  12. 12

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    10,000 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Svobody (93), Suvorovskaya (92)

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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    🇺🇸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
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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
  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

    🇺🇸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
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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
  8. 8

    🇺🇸BataviaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 890 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸RochesterNew York, United States

    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

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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
  11. 11

    🇨🇦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
  12. 12

    🇺🇸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
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    🇺🇸AuburnNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸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

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸DeKalbIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 961 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇦ChathamOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸YorkvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,087 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,087 chill hours · 978 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸JanesvilleWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,279 chill hours · 887 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸SouthgateMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 851 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%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.