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Land with a climate like Sumter

🇺🇸Sumter, South Carolina, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sumter are Lexington, United States (99% match), Milledgeville and Lumberton. About 568,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, Georgia, United States and Mississippi, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sumter are Lexington, United States (99% match), Milledgeville and Lumberton. About 1.5 million km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, Georgia, United States and Mississippi, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,041 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,041 chill hours · 1,182 mm rain

What grows in Sumter →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    83k sq mi214k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Texarkana (96), Marshall (94)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Georgia, United States

    56k sq mi146k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Martinez (99), Evans (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Mississippi, United States

    53k sq mi139k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Columbus (97), Starkville (97)

  4. 4

    🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mercedes (84), Navarro (84)

  5. 5

    🇦🇷Entre Rios, Argentina

    9,300 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gualeguaychú (81), Gualeguay (81)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    7,500 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hangzhou (84), Xiaoshan (84)

  7. 7

    🇺🇾Río Negro Department, Uruguay

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Young (83), Fray Bentos (80)

  8. 8

    🇺🇾Tacuarembó Department, Uruguay

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tacuarembó (80)

  9. 9

    🇺🇾Durazno Department, Uruguay

    3,500 sq mi9,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Durazno (83)

  10. 10

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    3,100 sq mi7,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lu’an (82), Hefei (81)

  11. 11

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (82), Caohe (80)

  12. 12

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Parramatta (79), Maitland (79)

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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    🇺🇸LexingtonSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 1,151 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸MilledgevilleGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,005 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,005 chill hours · 1,161 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸FayettevilleNorth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 1,184 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AugustaGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸MaconGeorgia, United States

    Zone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 1,199 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸AthensGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,168 chill hours · 1,264 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸ConwaySouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 896 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 896 chill hours · 1,365 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸PerryGeorgia, United States

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 819 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 819 chill hours · 1,175 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸DublinGeorgia, United States

    Zone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 803 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 803 chill hours · 1,140 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    99%match
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    🇺🇸GreenwoodSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,282 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 243 frost-free days · 1,282 chill hours · 1,156 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇺🇸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 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
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    🇺🇸ColumbusGeorgia, United States

    Zone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 809 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 9a · 276 frost-free days · 809 chill hours · 1,314 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AuburnAlabama, United States

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 975 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 975 chill hours · 1,468 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AtlantaGeorgia, United States

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,117 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,117 chill hours · 1,319 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
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    🇺🇸AmericusGeorgia, United States

    Zone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 782 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 782 chill hours · 1,226 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸SummervilleSouth Carolina, United States

    Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 748 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 748 chill hours · 1,324 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
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    🇺🇸PrattvilleAlabama, United States

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 828 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 828 chill hours · 1,419 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
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    🇺🇸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 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    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.