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Land with a climate like Skokie

🇺🇸Skokie, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Skokie are Ottawa, United States (99% match), Findlay and Ann Arbor. About 709,000 sq mi of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Skokie are Ottawa, United States (99% match), Findlay and Ann Arbor. About 1.8 million km² of land in 27 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Illinois, United States, Iowa, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 3,032 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 3,032 chill hours · 956 mm rain

What grows in Skokie →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    49k sq mi128k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ottawa (99), Galesburg (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clinton (97), Bettendorf (97)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Norwalk (99), Findlay (99)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    25k sq mi66k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tecumseh (99), LaSalle (99)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (92), Gornji Milanovac (86)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mostovskoy (92), Labinsk (90)

  7. 7

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Goražde (85), Tuzla (84)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Stavropol Kray, Russia

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Svobody (85), Yessentukskaya (85)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bijeljina (83), Doboj (82)

  10. 10

    🇵🇱Lesser Poland, Poland

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nowy Sącz (84), Wieliczka (84)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    3,400 sq mi8,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmachi (91), Chino (85)

  12. 12

    🇯🇵Aomori, Japan

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

    For example Nanaku (86), Hakurōmachi (86)

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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    🇺🇸OttawaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 2,996 chill hours · 927 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸FindlayOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 187 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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
  4. 4

    🇺🇸ValparaisoIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,042 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,042 chill hours · 1,008 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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
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    🇺🇸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
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    🇺🇸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
  8. 8

    🇺🇸TiffinOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 3,024 chill hours · 923 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸SanduskyOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 7a · 192 frost-free days · 2,995 chill hours · 888 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸South BendIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 186 frost-free days · 2,981 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸MansfieldOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,038 chill hours · 994 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸MarionIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,972 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸WyandotteMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,073 chill hours · 856 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸GalesburgIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 186 frost-free days · 2,992 chill hours · 964 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸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
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    🇺🇸DefianceOhio, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,053 chill hours · 872 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Fort WayneIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,022 chill hours · 909 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸LimaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,943 chill hours · 912 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸Cuyahoga FallsOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,963 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,963 chill hours · 980 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸KankakeeIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,002 chill hours · 995 mm rain

    Shares 20 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.