Where can I grow strawberry?
Fragaria × ananassa · Fruit · Annual
Strawberry is a great fit (80+) on 115.2 million km² (44.5 million sq mi) of land in 219 countries, 29% of it only with irrigation. The most well-suited land is in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Bahia, Brazil and Xinjiang, China. Where it can't grow, it's usually growing season too cool (93%) and too wet in the growing season (6%).
Tap the map for the score at any spot. Each square is a 28 km (17 mile) grid cell.
- Great fit (80+)
- 115.2M km²(44.5M sq mi)
- 80% of land
- Worth a try (50–79)
- 17.0M km²(6.6M sq mi)
- 12% of land
- Great fit without irrigation
- 79.7M km²(30.8M sq mi)
- Rain alone is enough
- Countries
- 219
- With great-fit land
Regions with the most suitable land
- 1
🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil
Great fit on 564k km² (218k sq mi)
For example Belo Horizonte (100), Uberlândia (100)
- 2
- 3
- 4
🇺🇸Texas, United States
Great fit on 520k km² (201k sq mi)
For example Houston (100), San Antonio (100)
- 5
🇧🇷Mato Grosso, Brazil
Great fit on 478k km² (185k sq mi) · worth a try on 30k km² (12k sq mi)
For example Rondonópolis (100), Campo Verde (100)
- 6
- 7
- 8
🇺🇸California, United States
Great fit on 340k km² (131k sq mi)
For example Los Angeles (100), San Jose (100)
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina
Great fit on 305k km² (118k sq mi)
For example Mar del Plata (100), Avellaneda (100)
- 13
- 14
- 15
Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.
By country
- 🇺🇸United States5.5M km² (2.1M sq mi) · 99% of its land
- 🇨🇳China5.2M km² (2.0M sq mi) · 93% of its land
- 🇷🇺Russia4.8M km² (1.8M sq mi) · 96% of its land
- 🇧🇷Brazil4.7M km² (1.8M sq mi) · 78% of its land
- 🇮🇳India3.1M km² (1.2M sq mi) · 95% of its land
- 🇲🇽Mexico1.6M km² (613k sq mi) · 99% of its land
- 🇦🇷Argentina1.5M km² (580k sq mi) · 95% of its land
- 🇮🇷Iran1.4M km² (540k sq mi) · 100% of its land
- 🇨🇦Canada1.1M km² (443k sq mi) · 97% of its land
- 🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo1.1M km² (433k sq mi) · 100% of its land
Best-suited towns
- 100%fit
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
- 100%fit
🇲🇽 Mexico City, Mexico
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Guizhou, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Hunan, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Hunan, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Sichuan, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Jiangxi, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Guangdong, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Hebei, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Shandong, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Jiangxi, China
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Sichuan, China
The most comfortable fits among the 2,000 biggest towns, two per region.
What strawberry needs
- Growing-season average
- Ideal 57–75°F (14–24°C)Won't grow below 46°F (8°C) or above 86°F (30°C)
- Coldest growing-season night (monthly average)
- Ideal at least 37°F (3°C)Won't grow below 28°F (-2°C)
- Growing-season rain
- Ideal 5.9–18 in (150–450 mm)Won't grow below 2.4 in (60 mm) or above 31 in (800 mm)
Grown as a short-season crop in most commercial systems; day-neutral types fruit through summer.
Sources: FAO ECOCROP: Fragaria × ananassa; UC ANR: Strawberry production. Ranges not yet reviewed by an agronomist.
What stops it elsewhere
- Growing season too cool93%
- Too wet in the growing season6%
- Growing season too hot1%
Share of the land scoring under 50, by what holds it back most.
How this map works
Every 28 km square of land is scored 0–100 against the requirements above, using 1991–2020 monthly climate averages with frost, chill and heat estimated by simulating daily weather. Each square is scored with whichever variety fits it best. “With irrigation” ignores rain shortfalls; “Rain-fed only” counts them.
Climate is only part of it: soil, slope, water and markets decide where a crop is actually farmed. Use this to shortlist places, then check them locally.