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by fransje26 9 days ago
The climate in Hungary is really not quite the same as in Stuttgart...
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We have had figs in southern Germany for decades. Not all varieties grow well here of course but just having figs growing doesn't really tell you much.
I honestly don't know. We do get to subzero temperatures relatively easy in winter in Hungary, it's quite a different climate from Greece and Italy.
From a Wikipedia comparison

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart#Climate

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Budapest#Data

(I took Budapest, for the sake of generality, from [1] it is clear that there are significant variations in Hungary)

You can see that the mean temperatures from April to October are about 2 degrees higher in Budapest than in Stuttgart, which is really significant. To give you an idea, that's a lot closer to Avignon (France) [2], which is a Mediterranean climate, than to Stuttgart which is considered oceanic.

I also remember people saying that they could get 2 harvests of figs a year in Moravia (CZ), which you will not get in Germany. Moravia is not Hungary, but it's getting there, climate-wise, and it illustrates nicely the difference a few degrees (mean) make.

[1] https://www.met.hu/en/eghajlat/magyarorszag_eghajlata/altala...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon#Climate