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Land with a climate like Sanford, Maine

🇺🇸Sanford, Maine, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sanford, Maine are Keene, United States (99% match), Pittsfield and Leominster. About 408,000 sq mi of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Ontario, Canada and Michigan, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sanford, Maine are Keene, United States (99% match), Pittsfield and Leominster. About 1.1 million km² of land in 22 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Ontario, Canada and Michigan, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,306 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,306 chill hours · 1,185 mm rain

What grows in Sanford, Maine →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    44k sq mi114k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wilton (99), Amsterdam (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    37k sq mi96k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Quinte West (97), Cobourg (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    35k sq mi90k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Walker (92), Allendale (92)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hazleton (97), Back Mountain (97)

  5. 5

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (83), Bugojno (77)

  6. 6

    🇨🇦New Brunswick, Canada

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moncton (85), Riverview (84)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwamizawa (90), Bibai (89)

  8. 8

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    3,700 sq mi9,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (80), Novi Pazar (72)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    2,800 sq mi7,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (74), Labinsk (65)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    2,800 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hachimantai (82), Takizawa (82)

  11. 11

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    2,700 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Greenfield Park (87), Brossard (86)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    2,400 sq mi6,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miyota (78), Ōmachi (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

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    🇺🇸KeeneNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,344 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,344 chill hours · 1,071 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸PittsfieldMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,350 chill hours · 1,079 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸LeominsterMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 1,176 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸LewistonMaine, United States

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,361 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,361 chill hours · 1,167 mm rain

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸AugustaMaine, United States

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,364 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,364 chill hours · 1,132 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AmsterdamNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,314 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,314 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸West TorringtonConnecticut, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 1,210 mm rain

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

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸QueensburyNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,347 chill hours · 977 mm rain

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

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸SouthbridgeMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,165 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,165 chill hours · 1,213 mm rain

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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸CortlandNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 166 frost-free days · 3,354 chill hours · 1,004 mm rain

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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸AmherstMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,152 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6b · 163 frost-free days · 3,152 chill hours · 1,140 mm rain

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

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸NashuaNew Hampshire, United States

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,155 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 3,155 chill hours · 1,113 mm rain

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

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸UticaNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,242 chill hours · 1,088 mm rain

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

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸WatertownNew York, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 1,085 mm rain

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

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸BangorMaine, United States

    Zone 5b · 152 frost-free days · 3,413 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 5b · 152 frost-free days · 3,413 chill hours · 1,119 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸HazletonPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,189 chill hours · 1,173 mm rain

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

    97%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸RutlandVermont, United States

    Zone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,391 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6a · 159 frost-free days · 3,391 chill hours · 842 mm rain

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

    97%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸ClayNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇺🇸Back MountainPennsylvania, United States

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 1,014 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇨🇦CobourgOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,390 chill hours · 884 mm rain

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

    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.