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Land with a climate like Shelby, North Carolina

🇺🇸Shelby, North Carolina, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shelby, North Carolina are Concord, United States (99% match), Wake Forest and Roanoke Rapids. About 548,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shelby, North Carolina are Concord, United States (99% match), Wake Forest and Roanoke Rapids. About 1.4 million km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Arkansas, United States and Tennessee, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,599 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,599 chill hours · 1,201 mm rain

What grows in Shelby, North Carolina →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    50k sq mi130k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chapel Hill (99), Carrboro (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Arkansas, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Paragould (97), Fayetteville (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    47k sq mi120k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maryville (99), Cleveland (99)

  4. 4

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

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

    For example Kutaisi (91), Zestaponi (90)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (79), Wuyang (77)

  6. 6

    🇮🇳Jammu and Kashmir, India

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

    For example Anantnag (87), Bijbehara (87)

  7. 7

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (87), Poti (69)

  8. 8

    🇮🇹Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

    600 sq mi1,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sacile (82), Cordenons (81)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yashiro (80), Sasayama (80)

  10. 10

    🇮🇹Veneto, Italy

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montebelluna (82), Montecchio Maggiore-Alte Ceccato (81)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Nara, Japan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ikoma (78), Katsuragi (78)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Kyoto, Japan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fukuchiyama (80), Kameoka (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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    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, rice

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, rice, lavender

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸SanfordNorth Carolina, United States

    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

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, rice

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, rice

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸PinehurstNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,164 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig, rice

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, almond

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, almond

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸KnoxvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 1,236 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸RaleighNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,421 chill hours · 1,161 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, rice

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸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 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸RomeGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,436 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, hops, lavender

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸HendersonvilleTennessee, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,290 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸GainesvilleGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,377 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,377 chill hours · 1,442 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice

    99%match
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    🇺🇸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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸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 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    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.