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Land with a climate like Waukesha

🇺🇸Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Waukesha are Madison, United States (99% match), Freeport and Sheboygan. About 722,000 sq mi of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Ontario, Canada and New York, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Waukesha are Madison, United States (99% match), Freeport and Sheboygan. About 1.9 million km² of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Ontario, Canada and New York, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,317 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,317 chill hours · 874 mm rain

What grows in Waukesha →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (99), Marshalltown (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    44k sq mi115k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brantford (97), Brockville (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    42k sq mi109k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Plattsburgh (98), Batavia (98)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Michigan, United States

    37k sq mi96k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haslett (99), Burton (99)

  5. 5

    🇺🇦Sumy, Ukraine

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Konotop (83), Romny (82)

  6. 6

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (84), Zhmerynka (84)

  7. 7

    🇺🇦Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Berdychiv (83), Radomyshl (83)

  8. 8

    🇧🇾Homyel’ Voblasc’, Belarus

    9,000 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rechytsa (81), Svetlogorsk (81)

  9. 9

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (82), Bor (79)

  10. 10

    🇷🇺Kursk Oblast, Russia

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ryl’sk (81), Zheleznogorsk (81)

  11. 11

    🇵🇱Subcarpathia, Poland

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Krosno (86), Jasło (84)

  12. 12

    🇨🇦Quebec, Canada

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Greenfield Park (93), Ville-Marie (93)

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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    🇺🇸MadisonWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,316 chill hours · 853 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸FreeportIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,265 chill hours · 889 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸SheboyganWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,360 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,360 chill hours · 824 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸RockfordIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 941 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸DubuqueIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 178 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 883 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸DixonIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,179 chill hours · 970 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Green BayWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6a · 163 frost-free days · 3,416 chill hours · 751 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸MarshalltownIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,228 chill hours · 884 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸MenashaWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,445 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6a · 166 frost-free days · 3,445 chill hours · 784 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸WaterlooIowa, United States

    Zone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,254 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 5b · 173 frost-free days · 3,254 chill hours · 901 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸JacksonMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,212 chill hours · 817 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸WaterfordMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,221 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,221 chill hours · 778 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸AppletonWisconsin, United States

    Zone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 5b · 163 frost-free days · 3,460 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸WaukeganIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 911 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸Mount PleasantMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 162 frost-free days · 3,365 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 162 frost-free days · 3,365 chill hours · 812 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸BataviaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 175 frost-free days · 3,283 chill hours · 890 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸ClintonIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,131 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸LansingMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,190 chill hours · 819 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
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    🇺🇸FlintMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 774 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
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    🇺🇸AmesIowa, United States

    Zone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,198 chill hours · 859 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 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.