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Land with a climate like Sault Ste. Marie

🇨🇦Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sault Ste. Marie are Sherbrooke, Canada (99% match), Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne and Petawawa. About 442,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ontario, Canada, Quebec, Canada and Wisconsin, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sault Ste. Marie are Sherbrooke, Canada (99% match), Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne and Petawawa. About 1.1 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ontario, Canada, Quebec, Canada and Wisconsin, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 5b · 146 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 5b · 146 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 957 mm rain

What grows in Sault Ste. Marie →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    66k sq mi172k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Orléans (99), Fallingbrook (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    46k sq mi120k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sherbrooke (99), Gatineau (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    35k sq mi90k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marshfield (91), Wausau (90)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦New Brunswick, Canada

    27k sq mi71k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fredericton (97), Miramichi (94)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Watertown (86), Plattsburgh (84)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marquette (95), Mount Pleasant (84)

  7. 7

    🇷🇺Vladimir Oblast, Russia

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gus’-Khrustal’nyy (85), Aleksandrov (83)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Ryazan Oblast, Russia

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasovo (82), Shilovo (81)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    9,700 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Minamishibetsuchō (86), Shibetsu (86)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Tambov Oblast, Russia

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Michurinsk (82), Morshansk (81)

  11. 11

    🇺🇦Sumy, Ukraine

    200 sq mi500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shostka (69), Krolevets (67)

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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    🇨🇦SherbrookeQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,572 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 5a · 154 frost-free days · 3,572 chill hours · 1,069 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇦Saint-Louis-de-TerrebonneQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,556 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,556 chill hours · 1,039 mm rain

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

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇦PetawawaOntario, Canada

    Zone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,625 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,625 chill hours · 882 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇦Sorel-TracyQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 159 frost-free days · 3,539 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 5a · 159 frost-free days · 3,539 chill hours · 1,021 mm rain

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

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇦HuntsvilleOntario, Canada

    Zone 5a · 149 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 5a · 149 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 1,054 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇦OttawaOntario, Canada

    Zone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,526 chill hours · 949 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇨🇦FrederictonNew Brunswick, Canada

    Zone 5b · 141 frost-free days · 3,569 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 5b · 141 frost-free days · 3,569 chill hours · 1,203 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇦GranbyQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 1,218 mm rain

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

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇦North BayOntario, Canada

    Zone 5a · 152 frost-free days · 3,597 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 5a · 152 frost-free days · 3,597 chill hours · 964 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    96%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇦Saint-Jean-sur-RichelieuQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,502 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,502 chill hours · 1,036 mm rain

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

    96%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇦CornwallOntario, Canada

    Zone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,481 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 5b · 164 frost-free days · 3,481 chill hours · 1,015 mm rain

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

    95%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇦Salaberry-de-ValleyfieldQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,505 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 5b · 166 frost-free days · 3,505 chill hours · 1,049 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇨🇦Greater SudburyOntario, Canada

    Zone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,689 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,689 chill hours · 847 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸MarquetteMichigan, United States

    Zone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,634 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6a · 153 frost-free days · 3,634 chill hours · 795 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇨🇦MiramichiNew Brunswick, Canada

    Zone 5b · 136 frost-free days · 3,648 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 5b · 136 frost-free days · 3,648 chill hours · 1,139 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇨🇦PeterboroughOntario, Canada

    Zone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,497 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,497 chill hours · 919 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇨🇦MidlandOntario, Canada

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,514 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,514 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇨🇦CaledonOntario, Canada

    Zone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,555 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 160 frost-free days · 3,555 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇨🇦VictoriavilleQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 148 frost-free days · 3,615 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 5a · 148 frost-free days · 3,615 chill hours · 1,142 mm rain

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

    92%match
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    🇨🇦KitchenerOntario, Canada

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,458 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,458 chill hours · 956 mm rain

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

    92%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.