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Land with a climate like Scranton

🇺🇸Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Scranton are Vestal, United States (99% match), Elmira and Ithaca. About 655,000 sq mi of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Scranton are Vestal, United States (99% match), Elmira and Ithaca. About 1.7 million km² of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, New York, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,134 chill hours · 986 mm rain

What grows in Scranton →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    46k sq mi119k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lisle (99), Glenview (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    43k sq mi112k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vestal (99), Elmira (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashland (99), Austintown (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    37k sq mi96k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarnia (99), LaSalle (97)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (92), Novi Pazar (87)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    10,000 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (92), Labinsk (89)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    9,900 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (89), Bugojno (86)

  8. 8

    🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

    3,800 sq mi10,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wieliczka (84), Myślenice (84)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    3,600 sq mi9,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmachi (90), Miyota (86)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    3,200 sq mi8,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takizawa (90), Hachimantai (89)

  11. 11

    🇷🇴Hunedoara County, Romania

    3,100 sq mi8,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hunedoara (84), Petroşani (84)

  12. 12

    🇺🇦Zakarpattia, Ukraine

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Khust (91), Svalyava (91)

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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    🇺🇸VestalNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸ElmiraNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,164 chill hours · 875 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸EnfieldConnecticut, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,000 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,000 chill hours · 1,126 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸KingstonNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,012 chill hours · 1,058 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸KalamazooMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,130 chill hours · 959 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸RochesterNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 864 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸Ann ArborMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,145 chill hours · 862 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Kiryas JoelNew York, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 1,226 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸MuskegonMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸West MilfordNew Jersey, United States

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,016 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,016 chill hours · 1,255 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸SyracuseNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,141 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,141 chill hours · 1,033 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸State CollegePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,033 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸BataviaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 890 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AshtabulaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    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.