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Land with a climate like Ar Ruţbah

🇮🇶Ar Ruţbah, Anbar, Iraq

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ar Ruţbah are Ţurayf, Saudi Arabia (99% match), Rukban and Tadmur. About 172,000 sq mi of land in 10 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Deir ez-Zor, Syria and Al Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ar Ruţbah are Ţurayf, Saudi Arabia (99% match), Rukban and Tadmur. About 445,000 km² of land in 10 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Deir ez-Zor, Syria and Al Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 842 chill hours · 4.6 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 842 chill hours · 118 mm rain

What grows in Ar Ruţbah →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇶Anbar, Iraq

    16k sq mi41k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qā’im (91), ‘Anah (81)

  2. 2

    🇸🇾Deir ez-Zor, Syria

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Subaykhān (93), Al Mayādīn (93)

  3. 3

    🇸🇦Al Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia

    9,500 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qurayyat (80), Ţubarjal (75)

  4. 4

    🇮🇷Razavi Khorasan, Iran

    9,100 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bardaskan (83), Gonābād (81)

  5. 5

    🇮🇷Isfahan, Iran

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ardestān (94), Ārān Bīdgol (89)

  6. 6

    🇸🇦Northern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia

    8,400 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ţurayf (99), Turaif (99)

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    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tadmur (95), Al Qaryatayn (80)

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    🇯🇴Mafraq, Jordan

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rukban (97), Mafraq (71)

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    🇸🇾Raqqa, Syria

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ar Raqqah (89), Al-Tabqa (89)

  10. 10

    🇮🇷Yazd Province, Iran

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Meybod (85), Ashkez̄ar (84)

  11. 11

    🇦🇫Herat, Afghanistan

    2,700 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Eslam Qaleh (78), Shīnḏanḏ (76)

  12. 12

    🇯🇴Zarqa, Jordan

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Az̧ Z̧ulayl (79), Zarqa (73)

Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.

Closest towns

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    🇸🇦ŢurayfNorthern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 787 chill hours · 4.4 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 787 chill hours · 113 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇴RukbanMafraq, Jordan

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 3.8 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 96 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, kiwifruit, apple

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇸🇾TadmurHoms, Syria

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 863 chill hours · 4.2 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 863 chill hours · 107 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, apple, date palm

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇷ArdestānIsfahan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 127 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇾Al MayādīnDeir ez-Zor, Syria

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 743 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 743 chill hours · 135 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 27 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇮🇶Al Qā’imAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 290 frost-free days · 642 chill hours · 5.2 in rainZone 8b · 290 frost-free days · 642 chill hours · 131 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    91%match
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    🇸🇾Deir ez-ZorSyria

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 825 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 825 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple

    90%match
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    🇸🇾Ar RaqqahRaqqa, Syria

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 147 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple

    89%match
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    🇮🇷KāshānIsfahan, Iran

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 919 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 919 chill hours · 184 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    89%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇾Al-TabqaRaqqa, Syria

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 831 chill hours · 6.2 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 831 chill hours · 157 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, date palm, apple

    89%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸BakersfieldCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, cherry, kiwifruit

    85%match
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    🇮🇷ArdakānYazd Province, Iran

    Zone 8a · 268 frost-free days · 904 chill hours · 3.9 in rainZone 8a · 268 frost-free days · 904 chill hours · 99 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 27 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇮🇷BardaskanRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 266 frost-free days · 1,064 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 8a · 266 frost-free days · 1,064 chill hours · 182 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    83%match
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    🇮🇷YazdYazd Province, Iran

    Zone 8a · 265 frost-free days · 974 chill hours · 4.1 in rainZone 8a · 265 frost-free days · 974 chill hours · 103 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 27 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇮🇶‘AnahAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 649 chill hours · 6.4 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 649 chill hours · 162 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    81%match
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    🇮🇷GonābādRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 183 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    81%match
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    🇮🇷RāvarKerman, Iran

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 886 chill hours · 3.9 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 886 chill hours · 100 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    81%match
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    🇸🇦QurayyatAl Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia

    Zone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 1.8 in rainZone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 45 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm, blueberry

    80%match
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    🇮🇷AnārKerman, Iran

    Zone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,125 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,125 chill hours · 121 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry

    80%match
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    🇸🇾Al QaryataynHoms, Syria

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 123 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, cherry, apple

    80%match

Any town over 15,000 people, skipping those within 75 km of you. ↻ = seasons flipped across the equator.

How matching works

We compare all twelve months of average highs and lows, rain, humidity and sunshine, the same way as Climatch's places-like search, but weighted for growing: winter lows count most, since frost, chill and hardiness decide which perennials survive, then summer highs and rain. Humidity counts least.

Scores show how unusual a match this close is: 80 or better is closer than all but about 2% of random pairs of places. Across the equator seasons are lined up (↻), so a southern farm's January is compared with a northern July. Climate is only part of it: check soil, water and day length (it matters for photoperiod crops) before buying land.

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Climate data: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages (Abatzoglou, J.T. et al., 2018, Scientific Data 5:170191). Humidity is derived from TerraClimate vapor pressure; “sunshine” is solar radiation.

Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Grower tools: crop ranges from FAO ECOCROP and university extension guides (cited per crop). Daily weather, frost dates and chill are estimated from the monthly averages; chill portions use the Dynamic Model (Fishman, Erez & Couvillon, 1987), hardiness zones follow the USDA definition.