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Land with a climate like Zoetermeer

🇳🇱Zoetermeer, South Holland, The Netherlands

The towns with the closest growing climate to Zoetermeer are Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (99% match), Lelystad and Apeldoorn. About 541,000 sq mi of land in 24 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.The towns with the closest growing climate to Zoetermeer are Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (99% match), Lelystad and Apeldoorn. About 1.4 million km² of land in 24 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in England, United Kingdom, Bavaria, Germany and Grand Est, France.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,364 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 226 frost-free days · 2,364 chill hours · 883 mm rain

What grows in Zoetermeer →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇬🇧England, United Kingdom

    62k sq mi161k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cirencester (99), Kidderminster (99)

  2. 2

    🇩🇪Bavaria, Germany

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lohr am Main (93), Alzenau in Unterfranken (92)

  3. 3

    🇫🇷Grand Est, France

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Charleville-Mézières (96), Sedan (96)

  4. 4

    🇩🇪Lower Saxony, Germany

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wilhelmshaven (99), Wittmund (99)

  5. 5

    🇬🇧Scotland, United Kingdom

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayr (96), Dumfries (96)

  6. 6

    🇫🇷Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

    16k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Autun (90), Audincourt (87)

  7. 7

    🇫🇷Brittany, France

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fougères (94), Morlaix (92)

  8. 8

    🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kleve (99), Emmerich (99)

  9. 9

    🇮🇪Munster, Ireland

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waterford (99), Limerick (97)

  10. 10

    🇮🇪Leinster, Ireland

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Malahide (99), Greystones (99)

  11. 11

    🇬🇧Wales, United Kingdom

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rhyl (99), Newport (99)

  12. 12

    🇵🇱West Pomerania, Poland

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Koszalin (91), Białogard (91)

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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    🇳🇱LeeuwardenFriesland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,625 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 220 frost-free days · 2,625 chill hours · 840 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇱LelystadFlevoland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,510 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 227 frost-free days · 2,510 chill hours · 803 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇳🇱ApeldoornGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,534 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 217 frost-free days · 2,534 chill hours · 925 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, maize (corn)

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇳🇱Den HelderNorth Holland, The Netherlands

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,386 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 2,386 chill hours · 804 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇩🇪EmdenLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 219 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 788 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇧🇪BruggeFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 259 frost-free days · 2,040 chill hours · 828 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, maize (corn)

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇳🇱GroningenThe Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,738 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 2,738 chill hours · 830 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇳🇱NijmegenGelderland, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 222 frost-free days · 2,421 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, maize (corn)

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇬🇧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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇧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 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇳🇱AssenDrenthe, The Netherlands

    Zone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 211 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 847 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧WorthingEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,094 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 228 frost-free days · 2,094 chill hours · 776 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇧🇪HoogstratenFlanders, Belgium

    Zone 9a · 223 frost-free days · 2,334 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 223 frost-free days · 2,334 chill hours · 832 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, maize (corn)

    99%match
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    🇬🇧BrightonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,046 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 227 frost-free days · 2,046 chill hours · 834 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧WrexhamWales, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 225 frost-free days · 2,272 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 225 frost-free days · 2,272 chill hours · 752 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇬🇧TauntonEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,717 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 268 frost-free days · 1,717 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪KielSchleswig-Holstein, Germany

    Zone 8b · 208 frost-free days · 2,960 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 208 frost-free days · 2,960 chill hours · 784 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇩🇪CuxhavenLower Saxony, Germany

    Zone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 228 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 810 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), peach

    99%match
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    🇬🇧BathEngland, United Kingdom

    Zone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 1,981 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 244 frost-free days · 1,981 chill hours · 835 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    99%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.