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A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic conditions relevant to plant growth and survival. The original and most widely-used system, developed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a rough guide for landscaping and gardening, defines 13 zones by annual extreme minimum temperature. It has been adapted by and to other countries (such as Canada) in various forms. Unless otherwise specified, "hardiness zone" or simply "zone" usually refers to the USDA scale. For example, a plant may be described as "hardy to zone 10": this means that the plant can withstand a minimum temperature of −1 °C (30.2 °F) to 3.9 °C (39.0 °F). Other hardiness rating schemes have been developed as well, such as the UK Royal Horticultural Society and US Sunset Western Garden Book systems.

plant growth survival climatic conditions

1. United States Hardiness Zones (USDA Scale)

The USDA system was originally developed to aid gardeners and landscapers in the United States.

State-by-state maps, along with an electronic system that allows finding the zone for a particular zip code, can be found at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) website.

In the United States, most of the warmer zones (zones 9, 10, and 11) are located in the deep southern half of the country and on the southern coastal margins. Higher zones can be found in Hawaii (up to 12) and Puerto Rico (up to 13). The southern middle portion of the mainland and central coastal areas are in the middle zones (zones 8, 7, and 6). The far northern portion on the central interior of the mainland have some of the coldest zones (zones 5, 4, and small area of zone 3) and often have much less consistent range of temperatures in winter due to being more continental, and thus the zone map has its limitations in these areas. Lower zones can be found in Alaska (down to 1). The low latitude and often stable weather in Florida, the Gulf Coast, and southern Arizona and California , are responsible for the few episodes of severe cold relative to normal in those areas. The warmest zone in the 48 contiguous states is the Florida Keys (11b) and the coldest is in north-central Minnesota (3a). Carolina, Puerto Rico has the warmest hardiness zone in the United States at 13b.

1.1. Definitions

2012 update of the Hardiness Zone Map
Zone From To
0 a < −53.9 °C (−65 °F)
b −53.9 °C (−65 °F) −51.1 °C (−60 °F)
1 a −51.1 °C (−60 °F) −48.3 °C (−55 °F)
b −48.3 °C (−55 °F) −45.6 °C (−50 °F)
2 a −45.6 °C (−50 °F) −42.8 °C (−45 °F)
b −42.8 °C (−45 °F) −40 °C (−40 °F)
3 a −40 °C (−40 °F) −37.2 °C (−35 °F)
b −37.2 °C (−35 °F) −34.4 °C (−30 °F)
4 a −34.4 °C (−30 °F) −31.7 °C (−25 °F)
b −31.7 °C (−25 °F) −28.9 °C (−20 °F)
5 a −28.9 °C (−20 °F) −26.1 °C (−15 °F)
b −26.1 °C (−15 °F) −23.3 °C (−10 °F)
6 a −23.3 °C (−10 °F) −20.6 °C (−5 °F)
b −20.6 °C (−5 °F) −17.8 °C (0 °F)
7 a −17.8 °C (0 °F) −15 °C (5 °F)
b −15 °C (5 °F) −12.2 °C (10 °F)
8 a −12.2 °C (10 °F) −9.4 °C (15 °F)
b −9.4 °C (15 °F) −6.7 °C (20 °F)
9 a −6.7 °C (20 °F) −3.9 °C (25 °F)
b −3.9 °C (25 °F) −1.1 °C (30 °F)
10 a −1.1 °C (30 °F) +1.7 °C (35 °F)
b +1.7 °C (35 °F) +4.4 °C (40 °F)
11 a +4.4 °C (40 °F) +7.2 °C (45 °F)
b +7.2 °C (45 °F) +10 °C (50 °F)
12 a +10 °C (50 °F) +12.8 °C (55 °F)
b > +12.8 °C (55 °F)

1.2. History

The first attempts to create a geographical hardiness zone system were undertaken by two researchers at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston: the first was published in 1927 by Alfred Rehder,[1] and the second by Donald Wyman in 1938.[2] The Arnold map was subsequently updated in 1951, 1967, and finally 1971, but eventually fell out of use completely.

The modern USDA system began at the US National Arboretum in Washington. The first map was issued in 1960, and revised in 1965. It used uniform 10-degree Fahrenheit ranges, and gradually became widespread among American gardeners.[3][4]

The USDA map was revised and reissued in 1990 with freshly available climate data, this time with 5-degree distinctions dividing each zone into new "a" and "b" subdivisions.

In 2003, the American Horticultural Society (AHS) produced a draft revised map, using temperature data collected from July 1986 to March 2002. The 2003 map placed many areas approximately a half-zone higher (warmer) than the USDA's 1990 map. Reviewers noted the map zones appeared to be closer to the original USDA 1960 map in its overall zone delineations. Their map purported to show finer detail, for example, reflecting urban heat islands by showing the downtown areas of several cities (e.g., Baltimore, Maryland; Washington, D.C. and Atlantic City, New Jersey) as a full zone warmer than outlying areas. The map excluded the detailed a/b half-zones introduced in the USDA's 1990 map, an omission widely criticized by horticulturists and gardeners due to the coarseness of the resulting map. The USDA rejected the AHS 2003 draft map and created its own map in an interactive computer format, which the American Horticultural Society now uses.[5]

In 2006, the Arbor Day Foundation released an update of U.S. hardiness zones, using mostly the same data as the AHS. It revised hardiness zones, reflecting generally warmer recent temperatures in many parts of the country, and appeared similar to the AHS 2003 draft. The Foundation also did away with the more detailed a/b half-zone delineations.[6]

In 2012 the USDA updated their plant hardiness map based on 1976–2005 weather data, using a longer period of data to smooth out year-to-year weather fluctuations.[7] Two new zones were added to better define and improve information sharing on tropical and semitropical plants, they also appear on the maps of Hawaii and Puerto Rico. There is a very small spot east of San Juan that is classified as hardiness Zone 13b, the highest category, with no temperatures below 65 °F (18 °C). The map has a higher resolution than previous ones, and is able to show local variations due to things such as elevation or large bodies of water. Many zone boundaries were changed as a result of the more recent data, as well as new mapping methods and additional information gathered. Many areas were a half zone warmer than the previous 1990 map.[8] The 2012 map was created digitally for the internet, and includes a ZIP Code zone finder and an interactive map.[9][10]

1.3. Selected U.S. Cities

The USDA plant hardiness zones for selected U.S. cities as based on the 2012 map are the following:

City Zone City Zone
Albuquerque, New Mexico 7b Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 7a
Anchorage, Alaska 4b/5a Omaha, Nebraska 5b
Atlanta, Georgia 8a Orlando, Florida 9b
Baltimore, Maryland 7b Panama City Beach, Florida 9a
Boston, Massachusetts 6b/7a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7a/7b
Buffalo, New York 6a Phoenix, Arizona 9b/10a
Burlington, Vermont 5a Pierre, South Dakota 4b/5a
Charleston, South Carolina 8b/9a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6b
Charleston, West Virginia 6b Pocatello, Idaho 5b
Chicago, Illinois 6a Portland, Maine 5b
Charlotte, North Carolina 7b/8a Portland, Oregon 8b/9a
Chattanooga, Tennessee 7a/7b Providence, Rhode Island 6b
Columbus, Ohio 6a Quad Cities, Iowa/Illinois 5b
Dallas, Texas 8a/8b Raleigh, North Carolina 7b
Denver, Colorado 5b/6a Reno, Nevada 6b/7a
Detroit, Michigan 6b Roanoke, Virginia 7a/7b
Fairbanks, Alaska 2a Sacramento, California 9b
Hartford, Connecticut 6b Salt Lake City, Utah 7a/7b
Honolulu, Hawaii 12b San Antonio, Texas 8b/9a
Houston, Texas 9a San Diego, California 10b/11a
Indianapolis, Indiana 5b/6a San Francisco 10a/10b
Juneau, Alaska 6b/7a San Gabriel, California 10a  
Kansas City, Missouri 6a/6b San Jose, California 9b/10a
Las Vegas, Nevada 9a San Juan, Puerto Rico 12b/13a
Los Angeles 10a/11a Savannah, Georgia 8b
Memphis, Tennessee 7b/8a Seattle, Washington 8b/9a
Miami, Florida 11a/11b Tampa, Florida 9b/10a
Minneapolis, Minnesota 4b/5a Tucson, Arizona 9b
Nashville, Tennessee 7a Tuscaloosa, Alabama 8a
New Orleans, Louisiana 9b Utqiagvik, Alaska 2b
New York City 7a/7b Washington, D.C.[11] 7a/7b
Norfolk, Virginia 8a Wichita, Kansas 6b

1.4. Limitations

As the USDA system is based entirely on average annual extreme minimum temperature in an area, it is limited in its ability to describe the climatic conditions a gardener may have to account for in a particular area: there are many other factors that determine whether or not a given plant can survive in a given zone.

Zone information alone is often not adequate for predicting winter survival, since factors such as frost dates and frequency of snow cover can vary widely between regions. Even the extreme minimum itself may not be useful when comparing regions in widely different climate zones. As an extreme example, most of the United Kingdom is in zones 8–9, while in the US, zones 8–9 include regions such as the subtropical coastal areas of the southeastern US and Mojave and Chihuahuan inland deserts, thus an American gardener in such an area may only have to plan for several days of cold temperatures per year, while their British counterpart may have to plan for several months.

In addition, the zones do not incorporate any information about summer temperature or insolation; thus sites which may have the same mean winter minima, but markedly different summer temperatures, will be accorded the same hardiness zone. For example, zone 8 covers coastal, high latitude, cool summer locations like Seattle and London, as well as lower latitude, hot summer climates like Charleston and Madrid. Farmers, gardeners, and landscapers in the former two must plan for entirely different growing seasons from those in the latter. Coastal Ireland and Miami are both Zone 10, but have radically different insolation and summer heat and humidity.

In the colder zones, another issue is that the hardiness scales do not take into account the reliability of snow cover. Snow acts as an insulator against extreme cold, protecting the root system of hibernating plants. If the snow cover is reliable, the actual temperature to which the roots are exposed will not be as low as the hardiness zone number would indicate. As an example, Quebec City in Canada is located in zone 4, but can rely on a significant snow cover every year, making it possible to cultivate plants normally rated for zones 5 or 6. But, in Montreal , located to the southwest in zone 5, it is sometimes difficult to cultivate plants adapted to the zone because of the unreliable snow cover.

Another problem is that many plants may survive in a locality but will not flower if the day length is insufficient or if they require vernalization (a particular duration of low temperature).

There are many other climate parameters that a farmer, gardener, or landscaper may need to take into account as well, such as humidity, precipitation, storms, rainy-dry cycles or monsoons, and site considerations such as soil type, soil drainage and water retention, water table, tilt towards or away from the sun, natural or manmade protection from excessive sun, snow, frost, and wind, etc. The annual extreme minimum temperature is a useful indicator, but ultimately only one factor among many for plant growth and survival.[3][9][12]

1.5. Alternatives

An alternative means of describing plant hardiness is to use "indicator plants". In this method, common plants with known limits to their range are used.

Sunset publishes a series that breaks up climate zones more finely than the USDA zones, identifying 45 distinct zones in the US, incorporating ranges of temperatures in all seasons, precipitation, wind patterns, elevation, and length and structure of the growing season.[13]

In addition, the Koppen climate classification system can be used as a more general guide to growing conditions when considering large areas of the Earth's surface or attempting to make comparisons between different continents.[14] The Trewartha climate classification is often a good "real world" concept of climates and their relation to plants and their average growing conditions.

1.6. Climate Change Projections

Recent research suggests that USDA plant hardiness zones will shift northward under climate change.[15]

2. Australian Hardiness Zones

The USDA hardiness zones are not used in Australia. The Australian National Botanic Gardens have devised another system more in keeping with Australian conditions.[16] They are numerically about 6 lower than the USDA system. For example, Australian zone 3 is roughly equivalent to USDA zone 9. The higher Australian zone numbers have no US equivalents.

There are problems with classifications of this type: the spread of weather stations is insufficient to give clear zones and too many places with different climates are lumped together. Only 738 Australian stations have records of more than ten years (one station per 98,491 hectares or 243,380 acres), though more populated areas have relatively fewer hectares per station. Local factors such as aspect, altitude, proximity to the sea also complicate the matter. For example, Mount Isa has three climatic stations with more than a ten-year record. One is in zone 4a, one in zone 4b, and the other is in zone 5a. Likewise, Sydney residents are split between zones 3a and 4b. Most other cities have similar problems. Different locations in the same city are suitable for different plants, making it hard to draw a meaningful map without publishing a list of weather stations and their zone classification to allow best use of local conditions.

3. Canadian Hardiness Zones

Climate variables that reflect the capacity and detriments to plant growth are used to develop an index that is mapped to Canada's Plant Hardiness Zones.[17] This index comes from a formula originally developed by Ouellet and Sherk in the mid-1960s.[18][19][20]

The formula used:

[math]\displaystyle{ Y = -67.62 + 1.734X_1 + 0.1868X_2 + 69.77X_3 + 1.256X_4 + 0.006119X_5 + 22.37X_6 - 0.01832X_7 }[/math]


where:
Y = estimated index of suitability
X₁ = monthly mean of the daily minimum temperatures (°C) of the coldest month
X₂ = mean frost free period above 0 °C in days
X₃ = amount of rainfall (R) from June to November, inclusive, in terms of R/(R+a) where a=25.4 if R is in millimeters and a=1 if R is in inches
X₄ = monthly mean of the daily maximum temperatures (°C) of the warmest month
X₅ = winter factor expressed in terms of (0 °C – X₁)Rjan where Rjan represents the rainfall in January expressed in mm
X₆ = mean maximum snow depth in terms of S/(S+a) where a=25.4 if S is in millimeters and a=1 if S is in inches
X₇ = maximum wind gust in (km/hr) in 30 years.

City Zone[17]
Calgary 4a
Edmonton 4a
Halifax 6b
Montreal 6a
Ottawa 5b
Saskatoon 3b
St. John's 6a
Toronto 7a
Vancouver 8b
Winnipeg 4a
Yellowknife 0a

For practical purposes, Canada has adopted the American hardiness zone classification system. The 1990 version of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map included Canada and Mexico, but they were removed with the 2012 update to focus on the United States and Puerto Rico.[8]

4. European Hardiness Zones

4.1. Britain and Ireland

Britain and Ireland's hardiness zones

Owing to the moderating effect of the North Atlantic Current on the Irish and British temperate maritime climate, Britain, and Ireland even more so, have milder winters than their northerly position would otherwise afford. This means that the hardiness zones relevant to Britain and Ireland are quite high, from 7 to 10, as shown below.

  1. In Scotland the Grampians, Highlands and locally in the Southern Uplands; in England the Pennines; and in Wales the highest part of Snowdonia.
  2. Most of England, Wales and Scotland, parts of central Ireland, and Snaefell on the Isle of Man.
  3. Most of western and southern England and Wales, western Scotland, also a very narrow coastal fringe on the east coast of Scotland and northeast England (within 5 km (3.1 mi) of the North Sea), London, the West Midlands Urban Area, most of Ireland, and most of the Isle of Man.
  4. Very low-lying coastal areas of the southwest of Ireland and the Isles of Scilly.

USDA zones do not work particularly well in the UK as they are designed for a continental climate.[21] The cooler UK summers must be considered. New growth may be insufficient or fail to harden off affecting winter survival.[21]

In 2012 the United Kingdom's Royal Horticultural Society introduced new hardiness ratings for plants, from H7, the hardiest (tolerant of temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F)) to H1a (needing temperatures above 15 °C (59 °F)).[22] The RHS hardiness ratings are based on absolute minimum winter temperatures (in °C) rather than the long-term average annual extreme minimum temperatures that define USDA zones.[22]

4.2. Scandinavia and Baltic Sea Region

Scandinavia lies at the same latitude as Alaska or Greenland, but the effect of the warm North Atlantic Current is even more pronounced here than it is in Britain and Ireland. Save for a very small spot near Karasjok, Norway, which is in zone 2, nowhere in the Arctic part of Scandinavia does it get below zone 3. The Faroe Islands, at 62–63°N are in zone 8, as are the outer Lofoten Islands at 68°N. Tromsø, a coastal city in Norway at 70°N, is in zone 7, and even Longyearbyen, the northernmost true city in the world at 78°N, is still in zone 4. All these coastal locations have one thing in common, though, which are cold, damp summers, with temperatures rarely exceeding 20 °C (68 °F), or 15 °C (59 °F) in Longyearbyen. This shows the importance of taking heat zones into account for better understanding of what may or may not grow.

A garden in Simrishamn, southern Sweden.

In Sweden and Finland generally, at sea level to 500 metres (1,600 ft), zone 3 is north of the Arctic Circle, including cities like Karesuando, Pajala, and Rovaniemi. Kiruna is the major exception here, which being located on a hill above frost traps, is in zone 5. Zone 4 lies between the Arctic Circle and about 64–65°N, with cities such as Oulu and Jokkmokk, zone 5 (south to 61–62°N) contains cities such as Tampere, Umeå, and Östersund. Zone 6 covers the south of mainland Finland, Sweden north of 60°N, and the high plateau of Småland further south. Here one will find cities such as Gävle, Örebro, Sundsvall, and Helsinki. The Åland Islands, as well as coastal southern Sweden, and the Stockholm area are in zone 7. The west coast of Sweden (Gothenburg and southwards) enjoys particularly mild winters and lies in zone 7, therefore being friendly to some hardy exotic species (found, for example, in the Gothenburg Botanical Garden), the southeast coast of Sweden has a colder winter due to the absence of the Gulf Stream.

Denmark is in zones 9a, 8b, and 8a.[23]

Estonia is divided to warmer West and North coast (Tallinn 6a, Haapsalu 7b, Kärdla 7a, Kuressaare 7a, Paide 6a, Rakvere 6a, Narva 6a, Viljandi 6b) and colder inland (Tartu 5a, Valga 5a, Võru 5a).

Latvia's capital Riga is in zone 6a. The country is in zones 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a and 7b.

Lithuania is in zones 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a and 7b.

4.3. Central Europe

Central Europe is a good example of a transition from an oceanic climate to a continental climate, which can be noticed immediately when looking at the hardiness zones, which tend to decrease mainly eastwards instead of northwards. Also, the plateaus and low mountain ranges in this region have a significant impact on how cold it might get during winter. Generally speaking, the hardiness zones are high considering the latitude of the region, although not as high as in the Shetland Islands where zone 9 extends to over 60°N. In Central Europe, the relevant zones decrease from zone 8 on the Belgian, Dutch, and German North Sea coast, with the exception of some of the Frisian Islands (notably Vlieland and Terschelling), the island of Helgoland, and some of the islands in the Rhine-Scheldt estuary, which are in zone 9, to zone 5 around Suwałki, Podlachia on the far eastern border between Poland and Lithuania. Some isolated, high elevation areas of the Alps and Carpathians may even go down to zone 3 or 4. An extreme example of a cold sink is Funtensee, Bavaria which is at least in zone 3 and maybe even in zone 1 or 2. Another notable example is Waksmund, a small village in the Poland Carpathians, which regularly reaches −35 °C (−31 °F) during winter on calm nights when cold and heavy airmasses from the surrounding Gorce and Tatra Mountains descend down the slopes to this low-lying valley, creating extremes which can be up to 10 °C (18 °F) colder than nearby Nowy Targ or Białka Tatrzańska, which are both higher up in elevation. Waksmund is in zone 3b while nearby Kraków, only 80 km (50 mi) to the north and 300 m (980 ft) lower is in zone 6a. These examples prove that local topography can have a pronounced effect on temperature and thus on what is possible to grow in a specific region.

4.4. Southern Europe

The southern European marker plant for climate as well as cultural indicator is the olive tree, which cannot withstand long periods below freezing so its cultivation area matches the cool winter zone. The Mediterranean Sea acts as a temperature regulator, so this area is generally warmer than other parts of the continent; except in mountainous areas where the sea effect lowers, it belongs in zones 8–10; however, southern Balkans (mountainous Western and Eastern Serbia, continental Croatia, and Bulgaria) are colder in winter and are in zones 6–7. The Croatian (Dalmatian) coast, Albania, and northern Greece are in zones 8–9, as are central-northern Italy (hills and some spots in Po Valley are however colder) and southern France ; Central Iberia is 8–9 (some highland areas are slightly colder). The Spain and Portuguese Atlantic coast, most of Andalusia and Murcia, almost all the Valencian Community, a part of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, southwestern Sardinia, most of Sicily, coastal southern Italy, coastal Cyprus and southwestern Greece are in zone 10. The islands of Malta, Lampedusa and few areas on the southernmost coast of Cyprus belong to zone 11a, and also the southernmost zone of Spain (Cádiz, Almería or Málaga, where the cultivation of mango, avocado or papaya are extended) belong to zone 11a.[24][25]

4.5. Selected European Cities

The table below provides hardiness zone data for selected European cities (based on climatological data):[26][27][28][29]

City Zone City Zone
Alicante, Spain 10a Almería, Spain 11a
Amsterdam, Netherlands 8a/8b Antwerp, Belgium 8
Barcelona, Spain 10a Belfast, Northern Ireland 9a
Belgrade, Serbia 8a Berlin, Germany 7b
Bratislava, Slovakia 7b Birmingham, England 8a/8b
Bucharest, Romania 6b Cardiff, Wales 9a
Catania, Italy 9b Copenhagen, Denmark 8a
Dublin, Ireland 9a Düsseldorf, Germany 8
Edinburgh, Scotland 8b Gdańsk, Poland 7
Glasgow, Scotland 8b Hamburg, Germany 8a
Helsinki, Finland 6a Istanbul, Turkey 8b
Kaliningrad, Russia 6 Kyiv, Ukraine 6b
Kraków, Poland 6 Lisbon, Portugal 10b
Las Palmas, Spain 12b La Coruña, Spain 10b
Ljubljana, Slovenia 7b London, England 9a
Madrid, Spain 9a Málaga, Spain 10b/11a
Manchester, England 8b Marseille, France 9a
Milan, Italy 8b Minsk, Belarus 5b
Moscow, Russia 5b Munich, Germany 7a
Murmansk, Russia 5 Nicosia, Cyprus 10a
Newcastle, England 8a Oslo, Norway 7a
Simferopol, Ukraine 7a Palma, Spain 10b
Paris, France 8b Plymouth, England 9a
Portsmouth, England 9b Poznań, Poland 7a
Prague, Czech Republic 7b Reykjavík, Iceland 8a
Riga, Latvia 6a Rome, Italy 9a/9b
Rovaniemi, Finland 4 Saint Petersburg, Russia 5b
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 7b Santander, Spain 10a
Palermo, Italy 10b Simrishamn, Sweden 8a
Sochi, Russia 9 Sofia, Bulgaria 7a
Stockholm, Sweden 7a Strasbourg, France 8
Tallinn, Estonia 6a Tuapse, Russia 8
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 7-8 Tromsø, Norway 7
Trondheim, Norway 6 Umeå, Sweden 5
Valencia, Spain 10b Valletta, Malta 11a
Vienna, Austria 7b Vilnius, Lithuania 6a
Vorkuta, Russia 2 Warsaw, Poland 6b
Wroclaw, Poland 7a Zagreb, Croatia 8a
Zürich, Switzerland 8a Zaragoza, Spain 9b
Ponta Delgada, Portugal 11b Funchal, Portugal 12a

5. American Horticultural Society Heat Zones

In addition to the USDA Hardiness zones there are American Horticultural Society (AHS) heat zones.

The criterion is the average number of days per year when the temperature exceeds 30 °C (86 °F). The AHS Heat Zone Map for the US is available on the American Horticultural Society website.[30]

Zone From To
1 < 1
2 1 7
3 8 14
4 15 30
5 31 45
6 46 60
7 61 90
8 91 120
9 121 150
10 151 180
11 181 210
12 >210

5.1. European Cities (AHS Heat Zones)

City Zone City Zone
Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Antwerp, Belgium 2
Belfast, Northern Ireland 1 Berlin, Germany 3
Birmingham, England 2 Bratislava, Slovakia 4
Bucharest, Romania 6 Cardiff, Wales 1
Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Cork, Ireland 1
Derry, Northern Ireland 1 Dublin, Ireland 1
Düsseldorf, Germany 3 Edinburgh, Scotland 1
Gdańsk, Poland 2 Galway, Ireland 1
Glasgow, Scotland 1 Hamburg, Germany 2
Helsinki, Finland 2 Istanbul, Turkey 6
Kaliningrad, Russia 2 Kiev, Ukraine 4
Kraków, Poland 4 Lisbon, Portugal 7
Ljubljana, Slovenia 6 London, England 2
Madrid, Spain 8 Málaga, Spain 7
Marseille, France 7 Milan, Italy 6
Minsk, Belarus 3 Moscow, Russia 2
Munich, Germany 3 Murmansk, Russia 1
Nicosia, Cyprus 9 Oslo, Norway 2
Oulu, Finland 1 Palma, Spain 7
Paris, France 3 Perm, Russia 3
Prague, Czech Republic 3 Reykjavík, Iceland 1
Riga, Latvia 2 Rome, Italy 7
Rovaniemi, Finland 1 Saint Petersburg, Russia 2
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 Sevilla, Spain 9
Simrishamn, Sweden 1 Sochi, Russia 6
Sofia, Bulgaria 6 Stockholm, Sweden 2
Strasbourg, France 4 Tallinn, Estonia 2
Tuapse, Russia 7 Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 1
Tromsø, Norway 1 Trondheim, Norway 1
Umeå, Sweden 1 Vienna, Austria 4
Vilnius, Lithuania 2 Vorkuta, Russia 1
Warsaw, Poland 3 Zürich, Switzerland 4

6. South Africa

South Africa has five horticultural or climatic zones.[31]

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