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Curated shortlist
Growing conditions vary within every state and a longer season is not automatically better. This makes the published climate signals easy to compare before you look at a county or a specific garden.
How this shortlist works
Each listed measure receives equal weight after being scaled against the national range. A score only compares these states on these measures; it is not a quality grade.
Open a state to see its counties, sources and the measures behind the score.
| State | Growing season | Garden zone | Solar | Freezing days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 310 days | Zone 9b | 4.93 kWh/m² | 2 days |
| Arizona | 280 days | Zone 8a | 5.76 kWh/m² | 13 days |
| Hawaii | 217 days | Zone 9b | 5.66 kWh/m² | 10 days |
| California | 258 days | Zone 9a | 5.20 kWh/m² | 5 days |
| New Mexico | 182 days | Zone 7a | 5.56 kWh/m² | 111 days |
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Each named measure receives equal weight after being scaled against the national range. Measures where lower values are preferable are reversed, and the resulting values are averaged into a relative match score.
No. This is a transparent starting point based only on the published measures named on this page. It is not a quality grade or a universal recommendation.
Yes. Open the guide in Find your fit to change weights, add preferences, or remove measures that do not matter to you.
These measures have different source schedules. See each state profile's Data dates & sources disclosure and the methodology before making a decision.