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Land with a climate like Villefontaine

🇫🇷Villefontaine, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

The towns with the closest growing climate to Villefontaine are Dole, France (99% match), Lons-le-Saunier and Mâcon. About 682,000 sq mi of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Occitanie, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Villefontaine are Dole, France (99% match), Lons-le-Saunier and Mâcon. About 1.8 million km² of land in 35 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Aquitaine, France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and Occitanie, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,165 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,165 chill hours · 907 mm rain

What grows in Villefontaine →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇫🇷New Aquitaine, France

    32k sq mi84k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tulle (99), Limoges (98)

  2. 2

    🇫🇷Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    23k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cran-Gevrier (99), Seynod (99)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Occitanie, France

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rodez (98), Millau (97)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    21k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Belorechensk (95), Goryachiy Klyuch (94)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (97), Kraljevo (96)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cleveland (84), Clark-Fulton (84)

  7. 7

    🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tandil (83), Benito Juárez (83)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weirton (84), Wheeling (82)

  9. 9

    🇪🇸Castille and León, Spain

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miranda de Ebro (92), Ponferrada (86)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸Kentucky, United States

    9,800 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Georgetown (81), Nicholasville (81)

  11. 11

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pančevo (94), Bačka Palanka (94)

  12. 12

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    8,300 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Velika Kladuša (98), Bosanska Krupa (98)

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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    🇫🇷DoleBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,305 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8b · 231 frost-free days · 2,305 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇫🇷Lons-le-SaunierBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 241 frost-free days · 2,236 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8b · 241 frost-free days · 2,236 chill hours · 1,126 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇫🇷MâconBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,140 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 233 frost-free days · 2,140 chill hours · 802 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇫🇷BesançonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,395 chill hours · 1,094 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇭GenevaSwitzerland

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,482 chill hours · 906 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇫🇷MontbrisonAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,100 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 221 frost-free days · 2,100 chill hours · 660 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇫🇷Chalon-sur-SaôneBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 235 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 787 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇭🇷ZagrebCroatia

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,351 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,351 chill hours · 892 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇫🇷LimogesNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 250 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇫🇷ChâteaurouxCentre-Val de Loire, France

    Zone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,828 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 242 frost-free days · 1,828 chill hours · 713 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
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    🇧🇦PrijedorSrpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Zone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,270 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,270 chill hours · 1,051 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇫🇷AlbertvilleAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,488 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,488 chill hours · 922 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇫🇷GuéretNew Aquitaine, France

    Zone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 253 frost-free days · 1,939 chill hours · 827 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇫🇷RodezOccitanie, France

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 685 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇮🇹BellunoVeneto, Italy

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 2,360 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 2,360 chill hours · 1,031 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇧🇦Banja LukaSrpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,296 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,296 chill hours · 1,047 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇭🇷KarlovacCroatia

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,356 chill hours · 1,060 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    98%match
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    🇫🇷DijonBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 218 frost-free days · 2,379 chill hours · 731 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    98%match
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    🇫🇷VesoulBourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 972 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇭🇷Velika GoricaZagreb County, Croatia

    Zone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,521 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,521 chill hours · 880 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean

    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.