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Hardiness Zone 7b USDA climate zones

USDA climate zones

As a concrete measure of the hardiness Germany, ranging from 5b (cool, Alps) to 8a (warm, Rhine Graben)

As USDA climate zones , precise USDA Plant Hardiness Zones ("Hardiness Zones"), refers to a climate classification of areas based on the average coldest annual temperature, has the U.S. Department of Agriculture published U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) . The zones range from 1 (-50 ° F and under) to 11 (40 ° F and above), each in increments of 10 ° F.
you are an international standard for assessing the hardiness of plants. Furthermore, there's a list of so-called indicator plants , which is divided by zones in which these plants can barely survive.
the plains of Germany, Austria and Switzerland is located in zones 6-7, the Alpine region in zones 5-6, where the Alps are the zones assigned to 4-5. Isolated areas with mild climates such as the Rheinland , coastal regions of Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein due to the Gulf Stream as Bremen and Hamburg , or areas around the Geneva and Lake to the zone 7 from the island of Helgoland and Mainau Zone 8b are assigned.

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USDA zones
Zone	of	to
a	under	-45.6 ° C
2a	-45.5 ° C -42.8 ° C
2b	-42.7 ° C -40.0 ° C
3a	-39.9 ° C -37.3 ° C
3b	-37.2 ° C -34.5 ° C
4a	−34,4 °C	−31,7 °C
4b	−31,6 °C	−28,9 °C
5a	−28,8 °C	−26,2 °C
5b	−26,1 °C	−23,4 °C
6a	−23,3 °C	−20,5 °C
6b	−20,4 °C	−17,8 °C
7a	−17,7 °C	−15,0 °C
7b	−14,9 °C	−12,3 °C
8a	−12,2 °C	−9,5 °C
8b	−9,4 °C	−6,7 °C
9a	−6,6 °C	−3,9 °C
9b	−3,8 °C	-1.2 ° C
10a	-1.1 ° C +1.6 ° C
10b	+1,7 ° C	+4.4 ° C
11	+4.5 ° C and above