Hardiness zone

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A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants. In some systems other statistics are included in the calculations. 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 long-term average annual extreme minimum temperatures. It has been adapted by and to other countries (such as Canada) in various forms. A plant may be described as "hardy to zone 10": this means that the plant can withstand a minimum temperature of 30 to 40 °F (−1.1 to 4.4 °C).

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Unless otherwise specified, in American contexts "hardiness zone" or simply "zone" usually refers to the USDA scale. However, some confusion can exist in discussing buildings and HVAC, where "climate zone" can refer to the International Energy Conservation Code zones, where Zone 1 is warm and Zone 8 is cold.

Other hardiness rating schemes have been developed as well, such as the UK Royal Horticultural Society and US Sunset Western Garden Book systems. A heat zone (see below) is instead defined by annual high temperatures; the American Horticultural Society (AHS) heat zones use the average number of days per year when the temperature exceeds 30 °C (86 °F).

United States hardiness zones (USDA scale)

Temperature scale used to define USDA hardiness zones. These are annual extreme minima (an area is assigned to a zone by taking the lowest temperature recorded there in a given year). As shown, the USDA uses a GIS dataset averaged over 1976 to 2005 for its United States maps. USDAHardiness 2012-2015 Scale.jpg
Temperature scale used to define USDA hardiness zones. These are annual extreme minima (an area is assigned to a zone by taking the lowest temperature recorded there in a given year). As shown, the USDA uses a GIS dataset averaged over 1976 to 2005 for its United States maps.
Global Plant Hardiness Zones (approximate). Antarctica is not shown; most of it except the peninsula is zone 0 or 1, and is almost completely covered by the Antarctic ice sheet. World Hardiness Zones.png
Global Plant Hardiness Zones (approximate). Antarctica is not shown; most of it except the peninsula is zone 0 or 1, and is almost completely covered by the Antarctic ice sheet.

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

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, especially further west with higher diurnal temperature variations, 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 rarity of 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 (2b). A couple of locations on the northern coast of Puerto Rico have the warmest hardiness zone in the United States at 13b. Conversely, isolated inland areas of Alaska have the coldest hardiness zone in the United States at 1a.

Definitions

2023 update of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map (USA).jpg
2023 update of the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
ZoneFromTo
0a< −65 °F (−53.9 °C)
b−65 °F (−53.9 °C)−60 °F (−51.1 °C)
1a−60 °F (−51.1 °C)−55 °F (−48.3 °C)
b−55 °F (−48.3 °C)−50 °F (−45.6 °C)
2a−50 °F (−45.6 °C)−45 °F (−42.8 °C)
b−45 °F (−42.8 °C)−40 °F (−40 °C)
3a−40 °F (−40 °C)−35 °F (−37.2 °C)
b−35 °F (−37.2 °C)−30 °F (−34.4 °C)
4a−30 °F (−34.4 °C)−25 °F (−31.7 °C)
b−25 °F (−31.7 °C)−20 °F (−28.9 °C)
5a−20 °F (−28.9 °C)−15 °F (−26.1 °C)
b−15 °F (−26.1 °C)−10 °F (−23.3 °C)
6a−10 °F (−23.3 °C)−5 °F (−20.6 °C)
b−5 °F (−20.6 °C)0 °F (−17.8 °C)
7a0 °F (−17.8 °C)5 °F (−15 °C)
b5 °F (−15 °C)10 °F (−12.2 °C)
8a10 °F (−12.2 °C)15 °F (−9.4 °C)
b15 °F (−9.4 °C)20 °F (−6.7 °C)
9a20 °F (−6.7 °C)25 °F (−3.9 °C)
b25 °F (−3.9 °C)30 °F (−1.1 °C)
10a30 °F (−1.1 °C)35 °F (1.7 °C)
b35 °F (1.7 °C)40 °F (4.4 °C)
11a40 °F (4.4 °C)45 °F (7.2 °C)
b45 °F (7.2 °C)50 °F (10 °C)
12a50 °F (10 °C)55 °F (12.8 °C)
b55 °F (12.8 °C)60 °F (15.6 °C)
13a60 °F (15.6 °C)65 °F (18.3 °C)
b> 65 °F (18.3 °C)

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 °F (5.6 °C) 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 five-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 (12 and 13) 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, Puerto Rico, that includes the airport in coastal Carolina, where the mean minimum is 67 degrees F (19 C), which is classified as hardiness Zone 13b, the highest category, with temperatures rarely below 65 °F (18 °C). The map has a higher resolution than previous editions, and is able to show local variations due to factors 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]

In 2015, the Arbor Day Foundation revised another map, also with no a and b subdivisions, showing many areas having zones even warmer, with the most notable changes in the Mid Atlantic and Northeast, showing cities like Philadelphia, New York City and Washington D.C. in zone 8, due to their urban heat islands. [11]

In November 2023, the USDA released another updated version of their plant hardiness map, based on 1991–2020 weather data across the United States. The updated map shows continued northward movement of hardiness zones, reflecting a continued warming trend in the United States' climate. [12]

Selected U.S. cities

The USDA plant hardiness zones for selected U.S. cities as based on the 2023 map are the following:

CityZone [13]
Albany, New York 6a
Albuquerque, New Mexico 7b/8a
Allentown, Pennsylvania 7a
Amarillo, Texas 7a
Anchorage, Alaska 5a/5b
Asheville, North Carolina 7b
Atlanta, Georgia 8a/8b [14]
Atlantic City, New Jersey 7b/8a [15]
Austin, Texas 9a
Bakersfield, California 9b
Baltimore, Maryland 7b/8a
Birmingham, Alabama 8a/8b
Boise, Idaho 7a/7b
Boston, Massachusetts 6b/7a [16]
Brownsville, Texas 10a
Buffalo, New York 6a/6b
Charleston, South Carolina 9a
Charleston, West Virginia 7a
Charlotte, North Carolina 8a
Chicago, Illinois 6a/6b [17]
Cincinnati, Ohio 6b
Cleveland, Ohio 6b/7a
Colorado Springs, Colorado 5b/6a
Columbus, Ohio 6b
Dallas, Texas 8b
Davenport, Iowa 5b
Denver, Colorado 6a
Des Moines, Iowa 5b
Detroit, Michigan 6b
El Paso, Texas 8b/9a [18]
Erie, Pennsylvania 6b/7a
Eureka, California 9b
Fairbanks, Alaska 2a
Flagstaff, Arizona 6a
Fresno, California 9b
Grand Rapids, Michigan 6a
Greensboro, North Carolina 8a
Greenville, South Carolina 8a/8b
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 7a [19]
Hartford, Connecticut 6b/7a
Hilton Head, South Carolina 9a/9b
Honolulu, Hawaii 12b
Houston, Texas 9b
Indianapolis, Indiana 6a/6b
Jacksonville, Florida 9a/9b [20]
Juneau, Alaska 6b/7a
Kansas City, Missouri 6b/7a
Key West, Florida11b/12a
Knoxville, Tennessee 7b
Las Vegas, Nevada 9a/9b [21]
Little Rock, Arkansas 8a
Los Angeles, California 10a/10b [22]
Louisville, Kentucky 7a
Madison, Wisconsin 5a/5b
Memphis, Tennessee 8a
Miami, Florida 11a
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 5b/6a
Minneapolis, Minnesota 5a
Mobile, Alabama 9a
Nashville, Tennessee 7a/7b [23]
New Haven, Connecticut 7a
New Orleans, Louisiana 9b
New York, New York 7b
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 7b
Omaha, Nebraska 5b/6a
Orlando, Florida 10a
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7b [24]
Phoenix, Arizona 9b/10a
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6b/7a [25]
Portland, Maine 6a
Portland, Oregon 8b/9a
Providence, Rhode Island 7a
Provincetown, Massachusetts 7b
Raleigh, North Carolina 8a
Reno, Nevada 7a/7b
Richmond, Virginia 7b
Rochester, New York 6b
Sacramento, California 9b
Salt Lake City, Utah 7b [26]
San Antonio, Texas 9a
San Diego, California 10b/11a [27]
San Francisco, California 10a/10b
San Jose, California 9b/10a
San Juan, Puerto Rico 13a/13b
Santa Fe, New Mexico 6b
Scranton, Pennsylvania 6b/7a [28]
Seattle, Washington 9a
Sitka, Alaska 7b/8a
Spokane, Washington 7a
St. George, Utah 8b
St. Louis, Missouri 7a
Syracuse, New York 6a
Tampa, Florida 10a
Trenton, New Jersey 7a/7b
Tucson, Arizona 9a/9b [29]
Tulsa, Oklahoma 7b
Unalaska, Alaska 8a [30]
Virginia Beach, Virginia 8a/8b [31]
Washington, D.C. 7b/8a
Wichita, Kansas 7a
Yuma, Arizona 10a [32]

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, due to the Gulf Stream 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 nights 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 duration of cold temperatures, summer temperatures, or sun intensity insolation; thus sites which may have the same mean winter minima on the few coldest nights and be in the same garden zone, but have markedly different climates. 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 conditions from those in the latter, in terms of length of hot weather and sun intensity. Coastal Ireland and central Florida are both Zone 10, but have radically different climates.

The hardiness scales do not take into account the reliability of snow cover in the colder zones. 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.[ citation needed ]

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 humanmade 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. [9] [3] [33]

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.[ citation needed ]

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. [34]

In addition, the Köppen 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. [35] The Trewartha climate classification is often a good "real world" concept of climates and their relation to plants and their average growing conditions.[ citation needed ]

Australian hardiness zones

The Australian National Botanic Gardens have devised another system keeping with Australian conditions. The zones are defined by steps of 5 degrees Celsius, from −15–−10 °C for zone 1 to 15–20 °C for zone 7. [36] 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 had no US equivalents prior to the 2012 addition by USDA of zones 12 and 13.

The spread of weather stations may be insufficient 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.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. Sydney residents are split between zones 3a and 4b. Different locations in the same city are suitable for different plants.

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. [37] This index comes from a formula originally developed by Ouellet and Sherk in the mid-1960s. [38] [39] [40]

The formula used is: Y = -67.62 + 1.734X1 + 0.1868X2 + 69.77X3 + 1.256X4+ 0.006119X5 + 22.37X6 - 0.01832X7

where:

CityCanadian Zone [37] USDA Zone [37]
Calgary 4a4a
Edmonton 4a3b
Halifax 6b6a
Montreal 6a4b
Ottawa 5b4b
Saskatoon 3b3a
St. John's 6a7a
Toronto 7a5b
Vancouver 8b8b
Victoria 9a9a
Winnipeg 4a3b
Yellowknife 0a2a

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] The Canadian government publishes both Canadian and USDA-style zone maps. [37]

European hardiness zones

Selected European cities

The table below provides USDA hardiness zone data for selected European cities:

CityZone
Amsterdam, Netherlands [41] 8b
Barcelona, Spain [42] 10a
Belgrade, Serbia [43] 7b/8a
Bratislava, Slovakia [44] 7a/7b
Bucharest, Romania [45] 7a/7b
Catania, Italy [46] 9b/10a
Dublin, Ireland [47] 8b/9a
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK [47] 8a/8b
Glasgow, Scotland, UK [47] 8b
Helsinki, Finland [48] 6b
Kaliningrad, Russia [49] 6b/7a
Kraków, Poland [50] 7a
Lisbon, Portugal [51] 10b
London, England [47] 8b/9a
Ljubljana, Slovenia [52] 7b
Madrid, Spain [42] 9a
Manchester, England [47] 8b
Milan, Italy [46] 9a
Moscow, Russia [49] 5a
Paris, France [53] 8b/9a
Portsmouth, England [47] 9a
Prague, Czech Republic [54] 7b
Riga, Latvia [55] 6b
Rome, Italy [46] 9b
Rovaniemi, Finland [48] 4a
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina [56] 7a/7b
Simferopol, Ukraine [57] 6b
Sochi, Russia [49] 9a
Stockholm, Sweden [58] 7a/7b
Tallinn, Estonia [59] 6a/6b
Tuapse, Russia [49] 8b
Trondheim, Norway [60] 7b
Valencia, Spain [42] 10a
Vienna, Austria [61] 7b/8a
Vorkuta, Russia [49] 2a/2b
Warsaw, Poland [50] 6b
Zurich, Switzerland [62] 7b/8a
Antwerp, Belgium [63] 8a
Belfast, Northern Ireland [47] 8b/9a
Berlin, Germany [64] 7a
Birmingham, England [47] 8b
Cardiff, Wales [47] 8b/9a
Copenhagen, Denmark [65] 8a/8b
Düsseldorf, Germany [64] 8a
Funchal, Portugal [51] 11b
Gdańsk, Poland [50] 7a
Hamburg, Germany [64] 7b
Istanbul, Turkey [66] 8b/9a [67]
La Coruña, Spain [42] 10b
Las Palmas, Spain [68] 12b
Marseille, France [53] 9a/9b
Minsk, Belarus [69] 5a
Munich, Germany [64] 6b
Murmansk, Russia [49] 4a
Newcastle, England, UK [47] 8a/8b
Nicosia, Cyprus [70] 9b
Oslo, Norway [60] 7a
Palermo, Italy [46] 10b/11a
Plymouth, England, UK [47] 9a/9b
Porto, Portugal [51] 10a
Poznań, Poland [50] 6b
Reykjavík, Iceland [71] 7b/8a
Saint Petersburg, Russia [49] 5a
Simrishamn, Sweden [58] 8a
Sofia, Bulgaria [72] 6b/7a
Strasbourg, France [53] 8a
Thessaloniki, Greece [73] 8b/9a
Tromsø, Norway [60] 7a/7b
Umeå, Sweden [58] 5a/5b
Valletta, Malta [74] 10b
Vilnius, Lithuania [75] 5b/6a
Wroclaw, Poland [50] 6b
Zagreb, Croatia [76] 7b/8a
Yalta, Ukraine [57] 9a

Britain and Ireland

USDA zones do not work particularly well in Ireland and Great Britain as they are designed for continental climates and subtropical climates. [77] The high latitude, weaker solar intensity, and cooler summers must be considered when comparing to US equivalent. New growth may be insufficient or fail to harden off affecting winter survival in the shorter and much cooler summers of Ireland and Britain. [77]

Britain and Ireland's hardiness zones, USDA scale, 2006 UK zonemap.png
Britain and Ireland's hardiness zones, USDA scale, 2006

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 USDA hardiness zones relevant to Britain and Ireland are quite high, from 7 to 10, as shown below. [78]

  1. In Scotland the Grampians, Northwest 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.

In 2012 the United Kingdom's Royal Horticultural Society introduced new hardiness ratings for plants, not places. These run from H7, the hardiest (tolerant of temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F)) to H1a (needing temperatures above 15 °C (59 °F)). [79] 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. [79]

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 around Karasjok Municipality, Norway, which is in zone 2, nowhere in the Arctic part of Scandinavia gets 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 cool, 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.

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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 and Pajala. 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 64–66°N, with cities such as Oulu, Rovaniemi 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. Åland, 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.

Central Europe

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Central Europe is a good example of a transition from an oceanic climate to a continental climate, which reflects in the tendency of the hardiness zones 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 Northern Europe with 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. Another notable example is Waksmund, a small village in the Polish 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. [80]

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 Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic coast, much of Andalusia and Murcia, coastal and slightly inland southern Valencian Community, a part of coastal Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, southwestern Sardinia, most of Sicily, coastal southern Italy, some areas around Albania, [81] [82] coastal Cyprus and southwestern Greece are in zone 10. In Europe, the zone 11a is limited only to a few spots. In the Iberian Peninsula, it can be found on the southern coast, in small Spanish areas inside the provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Granada, Málaga and Murcia. [68] In Portugal, zone 11a can be found in the Southwest on a few unpopulated sites around the municipalities of Lagos and Vila do Bispo. [83] In mainland Greece, zone 11a can be found in Monemvasia and also in areas of Crete, the Dodecanese, Cyclades and some Argo-Saronic Gulf islands. [84] [85] The Mediterranean islands of Malta, Lampedusa and Linosa belong to zone 11a as well as a few areas on the southernmost coast of Cyprus.[ citation needed ] The Balkan area is also more prone to cold snaps and episodes of unseasonable warmth. For instance, despite having similar daily means and temperature amplitudes to Nantucket, Massachusetts, for each month, Sarajevo has recorded below-freezing temperatures in every month of the year. [86] [87]

Macaronesia

Macaronesia consists of four archipelagos: The Azores, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Madeira. At lower altitudes and coastal areas, the Portuguese Azores and Madeira belong to zones 10b/11b and 11a/11b respectively. The Azores range from 9a to 11b and Madeira ranges from 9b to 12a, 9a and 9b found inland on the highest altitudes such as Mount Pico in the Azores or Pico Ruivo in Madeira. [88] The Spanish Canary Islands hardiness zones range from 8a to 12b depending on the location and the altitude. The islands are generally part of zones 11b/12a in lower altitudes and coastal areas, reaching up to 12b in the southernmost coasts or populated coastal parts such as the city of Las Palmas. The lowest hardiness areas are found in Teide National Park being at 8a/8b for its very high altitude. Teide peak is the highest peak of Macaronesia. [68]

The Cape Verde islands, located much further south inside the tropics, have hardiness zones that range from 12 to 13 in the coastal areas, while the lowest hardiness zone is found in the island of Fogo, in the country's highest peak Pico do Fogo.[ citation needed ]

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. [89] [90]

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South Africa

South Africa has five horticultural or climatic zones. The zones are defined by minimum temperature. [91]

Effects of climate change

The USDA map published in 2012 shows that most of the US has become a half zone (2.8 °C or 5 °F) hotter in winter compared to the 1990 release. [8] Again, with the publication of the 2023 map, about half of the US has shifted a half zone warmer. [92] Research in 2016 suggests that USDA plant hardiness zones will shift even further northward under climate change. [93]

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