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Land with a climate like Baghdad

🇮🇶Baghdad, Iraq

The towns with the closest growing climate to Baghdad are Balad, Iraq (99% match), Al Miqdādīyah and Al ‘Azīzīyah. About 252,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Khuzestan, Iran and Salah ad Din, Iraq.The towns with the closest growing climate to Baghdad are Balad, Iraq (99% match), Al Miqdādīyah and Al ‘Azīzīyah. About 653,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Khuzestan, Iran and Salah ad Din, Iraq.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 381 chill hours · 6.3 in rainZone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 381 chill hours · 161 mm rain

What grows in Baghdad →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇶Anbar, Iraq

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ramadi (99), Hīt (99)

  2. 2

    🇮🇷Khuzestan, Iran

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hoveyzeh (96), Sūsangerd (95)

  3. 3

    🇮🇶Salah ad Din, Iraq

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Balad (99), Sāmarrā’ (99)

  4. 4

    🇸🇦Ha'il Region, Saudi Arabia

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Turubah (87), Baq‘ā’ (84)

  5. 5

    🇮🇶Basra, Iraq

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qurnah (97), Al Madīnah (97)

  6. 6

    🇸🇾Deir ez-Zor, Syria

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ālbū Kamāl (92), Hajīn (90)

  7. 7

    🇸🇦Northern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia

    6,900 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Arar (86), Ţurayf (70)

  8. 8

    🇸🇦Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example ‘Uyūn al Jiwā’ (80), Buraydah (77)

  9. 9

    🇰🇼Al Jahra Governorate, Kuwait

    2,900 sq mi7,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Jahrā’ (83)

  10. 10

    🇮🇷Ilam Province, Iran

    2,800 sq mi7,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dehlorān (95), Darreh Shahr (78)

  11. 11

    🇰🇼Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ar Riqqah (81), Al Finţās (81)

  12. 12

    🇮🇷Kerman, Iran

    2,000 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bam (73), Baravāt (72)

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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    🇮🇶BaladSalah ad Din, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 287 chill hours · 6.2 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 287 chill hours · 158 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇮🇶Al MiqdādīyahDiyala, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 300 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 300 chill hours · 198 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇮🇶Al ‘AzīzīyahWasit, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 332 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 332 chill hours · 148 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇶RamadiAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 447 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 447 chill hours · 123 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇮🇶An Nu‘mānīyahWasit, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 325 frost-free days · 310 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 9a · 325 frost-free days · 310 chill hours · 137 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇮🇶HītAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 300 frost-free days · 499 chill hours · 4.7 in rainZone 8b · 300 frost-free days · 499 chill hours · 119 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇮🇶‘Alī al GharbīMaysan, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 336 frost-free days · 220 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 9b · 336 frost-free days · 220 chill hours · 221 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇮🇶Al-QāsimBabil, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 340 chill hours · 4.3 in rainZone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 340 chill hours · 108 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇮🇶Al ‘AmārahMaysan, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 196 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 196 chill hours · 208 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇮🇶Al DiwaniyahAl-Qadisiyah, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 323 frost-free days · 314 chill hours · 4.6 in rainZone 9a · 323 frost-free days · 314 chill hours · 117 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇮🇶Al ḨayyWasit, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 332 frost-free days · 251 chill hours · 6.0 in rainZone 9a · 332 frost-free days · 251 chill hours · 152 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇮🇶MandalīDiyala, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 321 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 321 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇮🇶Al HillahBabil, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 4.4 in rainZone 9a · 320 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 112 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇮🇶Al MadīnahBasra, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 235 chill hours · 5.6 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 235 chill hours · 143 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇮🇶‘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 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, fig

    97%match
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    🇮🇶ḨadīthahAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 635 chill hours · 5.5 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 635 chill hours · 140 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇮🇶KifrīDiyala, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 340 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 340 chill hours · 286 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    96%match
  18. 18

    🇮🇶KarbalaIraq

    Zone 9a · 318 frost-free days · 342 chill hours · 3.8 in rainZone 9a · 318 frost-free days · 342 chill hours · 97 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇮🇶Tāzah KhūrmātūKirkuk, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 323 frost-free days · 348 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9a · 323 frost-free days · 348 chill hours · 281 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇮🇶Ash SharqātSalah ad Din, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 265 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 265 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    95%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.