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Land with a climate like Zion

🇺🇸Zion, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Zion are Holland, United States (99% match), Batavia and Ithaca. About 730,000 sq mi of land in 28 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 Zion are Holland, United States (99% match), Batavia and Ithaca. About 1.9 million km² of land in 28 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Iowa, United States, Ontario, Canada and New York, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,210 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,210 chill hours · 905 mm rain

What grows in Zion →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Iowa, United States

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dubuque (94), Clinton (94)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    44k sq mi113k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kingsville (98), Leamington (98)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Batavia (99), Ithaca (99)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Darien (98), Yorkville (98)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Užice (91), Gornji Milanovac (84)

  6. 6

    🇺🇦Vinnytsia, Ukraine

    10,000 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vinnytsya (82), Zhmerynka (82)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bibai (87), Ebetsu (87)

  8. 8

    🇺🇦Lviv, Ukraine

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stebnyk (90), Drohobych (90)

  9. 9

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weilheim (83), Füssen (82)

  10. 10

    🇺🇦Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dunayivtsi (85), Kamyanets-Podilskyi (84)

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    🇵🇱Subcarpathia, Poland

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sanok (85), Łańcut (85)

  12. 12

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Travnik (86), Bugojno (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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    🇺🇸HollandMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,158 chill hours · 934 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸IthacaNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 921 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸AuburnNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 182 frost-free days · 3,213 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸AshtabulaOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,078 chill hours · 1,032 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸MuskegonMichigan, United States

    Zone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 7a · 179 frost-free days · 3,201 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇺🇸VestalNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,176 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸Menomonee FallsWisconsin, United States

    Zone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 6a · 167 frost-free days · 3,359 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸AdrianMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 878 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇦LeamingtonOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,106 chill hours · 907 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇦ChathamOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 6b · 185 frost-free days · 3,129 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Grand RapidsMichigan, United States

    Zone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 176 frost-free days · 3,182 chill hours · 944 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇨🇦St. CatharinesOntario, Canada

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,115 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,115 chill hours · 856 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇨🇦SarniaOntario, Canada

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,173 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸DeKalbIllinois, United States

    Zone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6a · 177 frost-free days · 3,188 chill hours · 961 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸PortageIndiana, United States

    Zone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 6b · 184 frost-free days · 3,034 chill hours · 993 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%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.