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Land with a climate like Arba Minch

🇪🇹Arba Minch, South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Arba Minch are Jinka, Ethiopia (96% match), Bedēsa and Felege Neway. About 131,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Region, Uganda, Oromiya, Ethiopia and Eastern Region, Uganda.The towns with the closest growing climate to Arba Minch are Jinka, Ethiopia (96% match), Bedēsa and Felege Neway. About 340,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Region, Uganda, Oromiya, Ethiopia and Eastern Region, Uganda.

Your growing climate

Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 762 mm rain

What grows in Arba Minch →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇬Northern Region, Uganda

    27k sq mi71k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moroto (93), Kotido (92)

  2. 2

    🇪🇹Oromiya, Ethiopia

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mena (92), Kibre Mengist (83)

  3. 3

    🇺🇬Eastern Region, Uganda

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nakaloke (94), Budaka (94)

  4. 4

    🇪🇹South Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jinka (96), Bedēsa (94)

  5. 5

    🇹🇿Mara, Tanzania

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bunda (86), Nyamuswa (86)

  6. 6

    🇺🇬Western Region, Uganda

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kiryandongo Refugee Camp (91), Buyale (91)

  7. 7

    🇪🇹South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region, Ethiopia

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tarch’a Sodo (79), Tēpī (73)

  8. 8

    🇰🇪Baringo, Kenya

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

    For example Kabarnet (66)

  9. 9

    🇰🇪West Pokot County, Kenya

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

  10. 10

    🇰🇪Samburu County, Kenya

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇹🇿Mwanza, Tanzania

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sengerema (84), Kisesa (84)

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    🇨🇩Ituri, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    1,200 sq mi3,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aru (82), Bunia (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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    🇪🇹JinkaSouth Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,046 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, potato, coffee (arabica)

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇪🇹BedēsaSouth Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 880 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    94%match
  3. 3

    🇪🇹Felege NewaySouth Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,220 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, coffee (arabica)

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇬MorotoNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 790 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇬MbaleEastern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, banana, rice

    92%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇬KumiEastern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,073 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    92%match
  7. 7

    🇪🇹MenaOromiya, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 802 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    92%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇬MalabaEastern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,204 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, banana, rice

    92%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇬KotidoNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 682 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇬BuyaleWestern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,036 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    91%match
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    🇺🇬TororoEastern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,203 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, banana, rice

    91%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇬ApacNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,090 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    90%match
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    🇺🇬DokoloNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,152 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    89%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇬MasindiWestern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,075 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    89%match
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    🇺🇬LiraNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,181 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, macadamia, banana

    88%match
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    🇺🇬PallisaEastern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,196 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, banana, rice

    88%match
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    🇺🇬AnakaNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,074 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, banana

    87%match
  18. 18

    🇪🇹Bale HawassaSouth Ethiopia Regional State, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,116 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, macadamia, potato

    87%match
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    🇺🇬AbimNorthern Region, Uganda

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,019 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, potato, coffee (arabica)

    86%match
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    🇹🇿Bunda↻Seasons flipped. Mara, Tanzania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 779 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    86%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.