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Land with a climate like Balkanabat

🇹🇲Balkanabat, Balkan, Turkmenistan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Balkanabat are Bereket, Turkmenistan (97% match), Gyzylarbat and Bäherden. About 69,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Balkan, Turkmenistan, Ahal, Turkmenistan and Semnan, Iran.The towns with the closest growing climate to Balkanabat are Bereket, Turkmenistan (97% match), Gyzylarbat and Bäherden. About 179,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Balkan, Turkmenistan, Ahal, Turkmenistan and Semnan, Iran.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,467 chill hours · 5.5 in rainZone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,467 chill hours · 140 mm rain

What grows in Balkanabat →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇹🇲Balkan, Turkmenistan

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bereket (97), Gyzylarbat (97)

  2. 2

    🇹🇲Ahal, Turkmenistan

    9,900 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bäherden (95), Ahal (93)

  3. 3

    🇮🇷Semnan, Iran

    3,600 sq mi9,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dāmghān (84), Garmsār (82)

  4. 4

    🇮🇷Tehran, Iran

    2,400 sq mi6,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kahrīzak (86), Shahrak-e ‘Alā’īn (86)

  5. 5

    🇮🇷Golestan, Iran

    1,700 sq mi4,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kalāleh (59), Gālīkesh (54)

  6. 6

    🇹🇲Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashgabat (90)

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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    🇹🇲BereketBalkan, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,786 chill hours · 6.1 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,786 chill hours · 154 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇹🇲GyzylarbatBalkan, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,725 chill hours · 6.6 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,725 chill hours · 167 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 27 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇹🇲BäherdenAhal, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,526 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,526 chill hours · 209 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇹🇲AshgabatTurkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,479 chill hours · 9.2 in rainZone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,479 chill hours · 234 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇹🇲KakaAhal, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 8.6 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 219 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇮🇷DāmghānSemnan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 253 frost-free days · 1,409 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 8a · 253 frost-free days · 1,409 chill hours · 225 mm rain

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

    84%match
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    🇮🇷PākdashtTehran, Iran

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 7.6 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 192 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive

    84%match
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    🇮🇷TehranIran

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,133 chill hours · 9.7 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,133 chill hours · 247 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, blueberry

    84%match
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    🇹🇲MagtymgulyBalkan, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,314 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,314 chill hours · 260 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, fig

    83%match
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    🇹🇲TürkmenbaşyBalkan, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,821 chill hours · 5.1 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,821 chill hours · 129 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, blueberry

    81%match
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    🇮🇷DargazRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,549 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,549 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇮🇷JājarmNorth Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 266 mm rain

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

    80%match
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    🇮🇷Īstgāh-e Rāh Āhan-e GarmsārSemnan, Iran

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 979 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 979 chill hours · 196 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    80%match
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    🇮🇷ShahrudSemnan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 7.0 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 177 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, wine grapes, tea

    79%match
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    🇮🇷KarajAlborz Province, Iran

    Zone 8a · 256 frost-free days · 1,590 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 256 frost-free days · 1,590 chill hours · 279 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, wine grapes, olive

    79%match
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    🇮🇷SemnanIran

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,077 chill hours · 8.8 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,077 chill hours · 223 mm rain

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

    77%match
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    🇮🇷SabzevarRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 252 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 8.4 in rainZone 8a · 252 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 213 mm rain

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

    76%match
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    🇹🇲TejenAhal, Turkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 249 frost-free days · 1,424 chill hours · 6.5 in rainZone 8a · 249 frost-free days · 1,424 chill hours · 164 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 27 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇮🇷SāvehMarkazi, Iran

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,139 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,139 chill hours · 270 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive

    74%match
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    🇮🇷ĀshkhānehNorth Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,482 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,482 chill hours · 306 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 27 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, blueberry, olive

    74%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.