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Land with a climate like Balaka

🇲🇼Balaka, Southern Region, Malawi

The towns with the closest growing climate to Balaka are Mandimba, Mozambique (96% match), Morrumbala and Mwanza. About 30,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Southern Region, Malawi, Zambezia Province, Mozambique and Niassa Province, Mozambique.The towns with the closest growing climate to Balaka are Mandimba, Mozambique (96% match), Morrumbala and Mwanza. About 79,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Southern Region, Malawi, Zambezia Province, Mozambique and Niassa Province, Mozambique.

Your growing climate

Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,038 mm rain

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Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇲🇼Southern Region, Malawi

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mwanza (86), Blantyre (75)

  2. 2

    🇲🇿Zambezia Province, Mozambique

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Morrumbala (86), Alto Molocue (83)

  3. 3

    🇲🇿Niassa Province, Mozambique

    3,800 sq mi9,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mandimba (96), Cuamba (51)

  4. 4

    🇲🇿Sofala, Mozambique

    2,800 sq mi7,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gorongosa (84), Búzi (68)

  5. 5

    🇲🇼Central Region, Malawi

    900 sq mi2,200 km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇲🇿MandimbaNiassa Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,042 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇲🇿MorrumbalaZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 976 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇲🇼MwanzaSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇲🇿GorongosaSofala, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,098 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇲🇿Alto MolocueZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,270 mm rain

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

    83%match
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    🇲🇿ChimoioManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,098 mm rain

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

    80%match
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    🇲🇿CatandicaManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 1,243 mm rain

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

    78%match
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    🇳🇵Dipayal↻Seasons flipped. Sudurpashchim Pradesh, Nepal

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 81 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 81 chill hours · 1,488 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, potato

    77%match
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    🇲🇿GurúèZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,804 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea, potato

    76%match
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    🇮🇳Phulbāni↻Seasons flipped. Odisha, India

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,583 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    76%match
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    🇮🇳Baliguda↻Seasons flipped. Odisha, India

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,628 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm, potato

    76%match
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    🇲🇿MurrupulaNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,114 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    75%match
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    🇲🇼BlantyreSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

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

    75%match
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    🇱🇦Muang Xay↻Seasons flipped. Oudômxai, Laos

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,495 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇲🇿ChibutoGaza Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 791 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    74%match
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    🇳🇵Birendranagar↻Seasons flipped. Karnali Pradesh, Nepal

    Zone 10a · 354 frost-free days · 186 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 10a · 354 frost-free days · 186 chill hours · 1,473 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, tea

    74%match
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    🇲🇬IvohibeIhorombe, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,016 mm rain

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

    73%match
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    🇲🇿RibáuèNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,146 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    73%match
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    🇧🇷CatanduvaSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,280 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    73%match
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    🇲🇿ManhiçaMaputo Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 842 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    72%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.