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Land with a climate like Balboa

🇨🇴Balboa, Cauca Department, Colombia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Balboa are Popayán, Colombia (99% match), Samaniego and Belalcázar. About 42,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cauca Department, Colombia and North Sumatra, Indonesia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Balboa are Popayán, Colombia (99% match), Samaniego and Belalcázar. About 110,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cauca Department, Colombia and North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Your growing climate

Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,006 mm rain

What grows in Balboa →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇩North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kayna (84), Lubero (84)

  2. 2

    🇨🇴Cauca Department, Colombia

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Popayán (99), Piendamo (99)

  3. 3

    🇮🇩North Sumatra, Indonesia

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Berastagi (86), Tongging (84)

  4. 4

    🇨🇴Huila Department, Colombia

    3,300 sq mi8,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Isnos (89), Pitalito (80)

  5. 5

    🇮🇩Aceh, Indonesia

    3,300 sq mi8,500 km² matching 80% or better

  6. 6

    🇨🇴Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Darien (94), Sevilla (91)

  7. 7

    🇺🇬Western Region, Uganda

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kanungu (81), Buhesi (78)

  8. 8

    🇪🇨Imbabura, Ecuador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ibarra (58), Atuntaqui (54)

  9. 9

    🇪🇨Azuay, Ecuador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gualaceo (52)

  10. 10

    🇪🇨Pichincha, Ecuador

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

  11. 11

    🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

  12. 12

    🇲🇾Sarawak, Malaysia

    300 sq mi800 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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    🇨🇴PopayánCauca Department, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,033 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇴SamaniegoNariño, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,425 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇴BelalcázarCauca Department, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,555 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇴CalarcáQuindío Department, Colombia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,102 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, rice, peanut

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇴DarienValle del Cauca Department, Colombia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,671 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, sugarcane, peanut

    94%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇴LíbanoTolima Department, Colombia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,981 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, rice, sugarcane

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇨🇴FusagasugáCundinamarca, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,614 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    92%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇴ManizalesCaldas Department, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 91 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,313 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    92%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇴PachoCundinamarca, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,585 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    92%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇴SevillaValle del Cauca Department, Colombia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,765 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, peanut, sugarcane

    91%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇴IsnosHuila Department, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,833 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    89%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇴AnsermaRisaralda Department, Colombia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,130 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, rice

    88%match
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    🇨🇩Kayna↻Seasons flipped. North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,181 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    84%match
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    🇨🇴MoniquiráBoyacá, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 88 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,236 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    82%match
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    🇮🇩KabanjaheNorth Sumatra, Indonesia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 106 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,692 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, banana, peanut

    82%match
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    🇨🇴AguadasCaldas Department, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,160 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇨🇩Sake↻Seasons flipped. North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,282 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, wine grapes

    82%match
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    🇺🇬Kanungu↻Seasons flipped. Western Region, Uganda

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    81%match
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    🇨🇩ButemboNorth Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,409 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇨🇴SantuarioAntioquia, Colombia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,167 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    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.