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Land with a climate like Swords

🇮🇪Swords, Leinster, Ireland

The towns with the closest growing climate to Swords are Athlone, Ireland (99% match), Sunderland and Liverpool. About 367,000 sq mi of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom and Lower Saxony, Germany.The towns with the closest growing climate to Swords are Athlone, Ireland (99% match), Sunderland and Liverpool. About 950,000 km² of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom and Lower Saxony, Germany.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 250 frost-free days · 2,008 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9b · 250 frost-free days · 2,008 chill hours · 797 mm rain

What grows in Swords →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    62k sq mi161k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ellesmere Port Town (99), Heswall (99)

  2. 2

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayr (99), Glenrothes (98)

  3. 3

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Emden (96), Schortens (96)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vreden (95), Kleve (94)

  5. 5

    🇫🇷Hauts-de-France, France

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hazebrouck (96), Abbeville (95)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Brittany, France

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Landerneau (91), Morlaix (90)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Normandy, France

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mont-Saint-Aignan (93), Dieppe (92)

  8. 8

    🇮🇪Munster, Ireland

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waterford (99), Limerick (99)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kilkenny (99), Athlone (99)

  10. 10

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Flint (99), Buckley (99)

  11. 11

    🇩🇪Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Flensburg (94), Eckernförde (93)

  12. 12

    🇩🇰Central Jutland, Denmark

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Herning (93), Skive (92)

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

  1. 1

    🇮🇪AthloneLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 255 frost-free days · 2,053 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 255 frost-free days · 2,053 chill hours · 999 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇬🇧SunderlandEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,207 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,207 chill hours · 723 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇬🇧LiverpoolEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,114 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,114 chill hours · 780 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇧SolihullEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 222 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 222 frost-free days · 2,337 chill hours · 766 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇮🇪CarlowLeinster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,823 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,823 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇮🇲DouglasIsle of Man

    Zone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 901 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇧Colwyn BayWales, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,883 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,883 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇬🇧BelfastNorthern Ireland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,278 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,278 chill hours · 851 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇮🇪WaterfordMunster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,858 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,858 chill hours · 986 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇧ScarboroughEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 223 frost-free days · 2,473 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 223 frost-free days · 2,473 chill hours · 669 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇧CarlisleEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,325 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 2,325 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇬🇧HerefordEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,202 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,202 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇬🇧AyrScotland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,246 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 9a · 245 frost-free days · 2,246 chill hours · 984 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇬🇧Kingston upon HullEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,137 chill hours · 680 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, tomato

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇮🇪LimerickMunster, Ireland

    Zone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 9b · 271 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 1,116 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇬🇧WhitehavenEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 9a · 232 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 1,040 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇬🇧BirminghamEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,250 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,250 chill hours · 868 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, sunflower

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇬🇧King's LynnEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 643 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, tomato

    98%match
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    🇬🇧SwindonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,185 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,185 chill hours · 717 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇬🇧DundeeScotland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 214 frost-free days · 2,691 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 214 frost-free days · 2,691 chill hours · 756 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 12 great-fit crops

    98%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.