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Land with a climate like Thunder Bay

🇨🇦Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

The towns with the closest growing climate to Thunder Bay are Hibbing, United States (97% match), Kenora and Greater Sudbury. About 694,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Quebec, Canada, Ontario, Canada and Bashkortostan Republic, Russia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Thunder Bay are Hibbing, United States (97% match), Kenora and Greater Sudbury. About 1.8 million km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Quebec, Canada, Ontario, Canada and Bashkortostan Republic, Russia.

Your growing climate

Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,814 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,814 chill hours · 718 mm rain

What grows in Thunder Bay →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    59k sq mi153k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saint-Georges (92), Rouyn-Noranda (92)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    56k sq mi145k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Valley East (95), Kenora (94)

  3. 3

    🇷🇺Bashkortostan Republic, Russia

    35k sq mi90k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Blagoveshchensk (92), Yanaul (92)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

    30k sq mi77k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Krasnoufimsk (88), Revda (85)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Kirov Oblast, Russia

    25k sq mi64k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kotel’nich (87), Slobodskoy (86)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Minnesota, United States

    18k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hibbing (97), Duluth (88)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Wisconsin, United States

    16k sq mi41k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Superior (88), Marshfield (87)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸North Dakota, United States

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Grand Forks (86), West Fargo (81)

  9. 9

    🇨🇦Manitoba, Canada

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Steinbach (84), Winnipeg (84)

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

    🇺🇸HibbingMinnesota, United States

    Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 3,792 chill hours · 694 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, cherry

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇦KenoraOntario, Canada

    Zone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 4a · 139 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, tomato

    94%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇦Greater SudburyOntario, Canada

    Zone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,689 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,689 chill hours · 847 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, hemp, cherry

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇦Saint-GeorgesQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 139 frost-free days · 3,712 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 5a · 139 frost-free days · 3,712 chill hours · 1,074 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, cherry, sunflower

    92%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇦EdmundstonNew Brunswick, Canada

    Zone 4b · 127 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 4b · 127 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 1,140 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    92%match
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    🇨🇦Rouyn-NorandaQuebec, Canada

    Zone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,874 chill hours · 976 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    92%match
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    🇷🇺YanaulBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 5a · 132 frost-free days · 3,990 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 5a · 132 frost-free days · 3,990 chill hours · 500 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 9 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇨🇦RimouskiQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,796 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,796 chill hours · 929 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, cherry

    92%match
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    🇨🇦SaguenayQuebec, Canada

    Zone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 4a · 132 frost-free days · 3,737 chill hours · 1,114 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    91%match
  10. 10

    🇷🇺UfaBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,936 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,936 chill hours · 541 mm rain

    Shares 8 of your 9 great-fit crops

    91%match
  11. 11

    🇷🇺AshaChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 5a · 142 frost-free days · 3,976 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 5a · 142 frost-free days · 3,976 chill hours · 541 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 9 great-fit crops

    90%match
  12. 12

    🇷🇺ChernushkaPerm Krai, Russia

    Zone 4b · 134 frost-free days · 4,034 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 4b · 134 frost-free days · 4,034 chill hours · 511 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 9 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇷🇺ChishmyBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,930 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 4b · 143 frost-free days · 3,930 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    90%match
  14. 14

    🇷🇺TrëkhgornyyChelyabinsk, Russia

    Zone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 4,056 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 4b · 132 frost-free days · 4,056 chill hours · 554 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 9 great-fit crops

    90%match
  15. 15

    🇷🇺NeftekamskBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 5a · 142 frost-free days · 3,962 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 5a · 142 frost-free days · 3,962 chill hours · 496 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    90%match
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    🇨🇦AlmaQuebec, Canada

    Zone 3b · 128 frost-free days · 3,785 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 3b · 128 frost-free days · 3,785 chill hours · 992 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    89%match
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    🇷🇺OsaPerm Krai, Russia

    Zone 5a · 139 frost-free days · 4,022 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 5a · 139 frost-free days · 4,022 chill hours · 531 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 9 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇷🇺DyurtyuliBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,939 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 5a · 143 frost-free days · 3,939 chill hours · 473 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp

    89%match
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    🇨🇦Rivière-du-LoupQuebec, Canada

    Zone 5a · 145 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 5a · 145 frost-free days · 3,769 chill hours · 970 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 9 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, cherry, sunflower

    88%match
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    🇷🇺Mezgor'eBashkortostan Republic, Russia

    Zone 4b · 118 frost-free days · 4,065 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 4b · 118 frost-free days · 4,065 chill hours · 601 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 9 great-fit crops

    88%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.