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Land with a climate like Sanford, North Carolina

🇺🇸Sanford, North Carolina, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sanford, North Carolina are Rocky Mount, United States (99% match), Roanoke Rapids and Wake Forest. About 572,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Mississippi, United States and Arkansas, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sanford, North Carolina are Rocky Mount, United States (99% match), Roanoke Rapids and Wake Forest. About 1.5 million km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Mississippi, United States and Arkansas, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 1,158 mm rain

What grows in Sanford, North Carolina →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    49k sq mi128k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rocky Mount (99), Wilson (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Mississippi, United States

    47k sq mi123k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oxford (97), Hernando (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Russellville (97), Paragould (96)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (84), Wuyang (83)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guangshui (77), Macheng (76)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (81), Deqing (79)

  7. 7

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,600 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kutaisi (89), Samtredia (89)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yashiro (84), Ono (83)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (86), Poti (71)

  10. 10

    🇮🇳Jammu and Kashmir, India

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Anantnag (84), Bijbehara (84)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Tottori, Japan

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kurayoshi (82), Matsuzaki (82)

  12. 12

    🇮🇹Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sacile (81), Cordenons (80)

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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    🇺🇸Rocky MountNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,498 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Roanoke RapidsNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,563 chill hours · 1,148 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸Wake ForestNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,616 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,616 chill hours · 1,163 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸ConcordNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 1,117 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸GastoniaNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,447 chill hours · 1,152 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸LaurinburgNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,249 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,249 chill hours · 1,174 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸MonroeNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸HickoryNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,193 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸HendersonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,735 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸DanvilleVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,791 chill hours · 1,113 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸SpartanburgSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,247 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸GoldsboroNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,237 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,237 chill hours · 1,278 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸GreenvilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,235 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,235 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, tea

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸AndersonSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,318 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,318 chill hours · 1,260 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸Winston-SalemNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,683 chill hours · 1,078 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸StatesvilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 1,121 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸GreensboroNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,598 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,598 chill hours · 1,092 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸LumbertonNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,177 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,177 chill hours · 1,238 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸GreenvilleSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 1,337 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸TuckahoeVirginia, United States

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 1,133 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, lavender

    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.