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Land with a climate like Saint-Étienne

🇫🇷Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saint-Étienne are Vichy, France (99% match), Rodez and Bourg-en-Bresse. About 699,000 sq mi of land in 39 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Occitanie, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saint-Étienne are Vichy, France (99% match), Rodez and Bourg-en-Bresse. About 1.8 million km² of land in 39 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Occitanie, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,257 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,257 chill hours · 796 mm rain

What grows in Saint-Étienne →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guéret (98), Tulle (98)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vichy (99), Saint-Égrève (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Occitanie, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rodez (99), Millau (98)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (93), Labinsk (93)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (96), Sremčica (96)

  6. 6

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Munich (94), Großostheim (91)

  7. 7

    🇪🇸Castille and León, Spain

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miranda de Ebro (91), Villaquilambre (87)

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    🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

    9,900 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Benito Juárez (83), Tandil (80)

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    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vršac (95), Bačka Palanka (94)

  10. 10

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lukavac (96), Gradačac (95)

  11. 11

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Niederkassel (92), Wesseling (91)

  12. 12

    🇳🇿Canterbury, New Zealand

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashburton (89), Rolleston (88)

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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    🇫🇷VichyAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 215 frost-free days · 2,088 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷RodezOccitanie, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 685 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷Bourg-en-BresseAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,180 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,180 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, sorghum, olive

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇭BaselBasel-City, Switzerland

    Zone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 216 frost-free days · 2,468 chill hours · 745 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇫🇷GuéretNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 827 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇭GenevaSwitzerland

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷DoleBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,305 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,305 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇫🇷MoulinsAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,078 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷ChambéryAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8a · 225 frost-free days · 2,206 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, sorghum

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇮🇹LumezzaneLombardy, Italy

    Zone 8a · 213 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8a · 213 frost-free days · 2,557 chill hours · 814 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, soybean

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇫🇷Chalon-sur-SaôneBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 787 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, olive

    98%match
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    🇫🇷DijonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 731 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇫🇷MillauOccitanie, France

    Zone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 1,817 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8b · 232 frost-free days · 1,817 chill hours · 612 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, olive

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇮🇹BolzanoTrentino-Alto Adige, Italy

    Zone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,404 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,404 chill hours · 755 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, almond

    98%match
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    🇫🇷ChâteaurouxCentre-Val de Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,828 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,828 chill hours · 713 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇫🇷Clermont-FerrandAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,037 chill hours · 580 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇫🇷BourgesCentre-Val de Loire, France

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 1,970 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 1,970 chill hours · 689 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇫🇷MontluçonAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 1,929 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 1,929 chill hours · 634 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇫🇷BesançonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 1,094 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    97%match
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    🇫🇷NeversBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,149 chill hours · 742 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 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.