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Land with a climate like Saint Cloud, Minnesota

🇺🇸Saint Cloud, Minnesota, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saint Cloud, Minnesota are Watertown, United States (99% match), Willmar and Aberdeen. About 270,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Minnesota, United States, Wisconsin, United States and Iowa, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saint Cloud, Minnesota are Watertown, United States (99% match), Willmar and Aberdeen. About 698,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Minnesota, United States, Wisconsin, United States and Iowa, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,567 chill hours · 709 mm rain

What grows in Saint Cloud, Minnesota →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    40k sq mi104k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Willmar (98), Ham Lake (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    40k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Menomonie (97), River Falls (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    34k sq mi89k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mason City (93), Cedar Falls (91)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    1,900 sq mi5,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Peterborough (82), Cornwall (80)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (80), Candiac (79)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Saratov Oblast, Russia

    400 sq mi1,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rtishchevo (79), Atkarsk (78)

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

    🇺🇸WatertownSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸WillmarMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,563 chill hours · 743 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸AberdeenSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,617 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸Eau ClaireWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,447 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,447 chill hours · 795 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸LakevilleMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,502 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,502 chill hours · 776 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    96%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Red WingMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,444 chill hours · 775 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    95%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Stevens PointWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 158 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 158 frost-free days · 3,537 chill hours · 797 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    95%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸MankatoMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,449 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,449 chill hours · 793 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    95%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸OwatonnaMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 162 frost-free days · 3,491 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 5b · 162 frost-free days · 3,491 chill hours · 820 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    95%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸BrookingsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,593 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    95%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸WausauWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,595 chill hours · 796 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    95%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Apple ValleyMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 164 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 5a · 164 frost-free days · 3,463 chill hours · 765 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    94%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸AustinMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,474 chill hours · 821 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    94%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸Sioux FallsSouth Dakota, United States

    Zone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 5b · 161 frost-free days · 3,428 chill hours · 633 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    94%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸RochesterMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum

    94%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸FargoNorth Dakota, United States

    Zone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 4b · 152 frost-free days · 3,676 chill hours · 591 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    93%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸MinneapolisMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5b · 167 frost-free days · 3,420 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5b · 167 frost-free days · 3,420 chill hours · 746 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, lavender

    93%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸AppletonWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum, walnut

    93%match
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    🇺🇸Mason CityIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,411 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,411 chill hours · 856 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, sorghum, walnut

    93%match
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    🇺🇸DuluthMinnesota, United States

    Zone 5a · 153 frost-free days · 3,648 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 5a · 153 frost-free days · 3,648 chill hours · 747 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    93%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.