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Land with a climate like Balqash

🇰🇿Balqash, Karaganda, Kazakhstan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Balqash are Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan (92% match), Shalqar and Embi. About 300,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan and Karaganda, Kazakhstan.The towns with the closest growing climate to Balqash are Zhezqazghan, Kazakhstan (92% match), Shalqar and Embi. About 778,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan and Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Your growing climate

Zone 4b · 164 frost-free days · 3,667 chill hours · 5.7 in rainZone 4b · 164 frost-free days · 3,667 chill hours · 145 mm rain

What grows in Balqash →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇰🇿Aktobe, Kazakhstan

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shalqar (90), Embi (88)

  2. 2

    🇰🇿Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Satpayev (93), Zhezqazghan (92)

  3. 3

    🇰🇿Karaganda, Kazakhstan

    7,200 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Abay (67), Shakhtinsk (66)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Emin (84), Tacheng (78)

  5. 5

    🇷🇺Orenburg Oblast, Russia

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sol’-Iletsk (74), Orsk (74)

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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    🇰🇿ZhezqazghanUlytau Region, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 147 frost-free days · 3,767 chill hours · 6.9 in rainZone 4b · 147 frost-free days · 3,767 chill hours · 176 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇰🇿ShalqarAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 158 frost-free days · 3,690 chill hours · 7.0 in rainZone 4b · 158 frost-free days · 3,690 chill hours · 178 mm rain

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

    90%match
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    🇰🇿EmbiAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,720 chill hours · 8.8 in rainZone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,720 chill hours · 223 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇨🇳EminXinjiang, China

    Zone 4b · 168 frost-free days · 3,525 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 4b · 168 frost-free days · 3,525 chill hours · 208 mm rain

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

    84%match
  5. 5

    🇰🇿MaqanshyAbai Region, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 155 frost-free days · 3,582 chill hours · 9.6 in rainZone 4b · 155 frost-free days · 3,582 chill hours · 244 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇰🇿AralKyzylorda, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 164 frost-free days · 3,604 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 5a · 164 frost-free days · 3,604 chill hours · 147 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, peanut

    80%match
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    🇰🇿AktobeKazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 147 frost-free days · 3,825 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 4b · 147 frost-free days · 3,825 chill hours · 301 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇨🇳TachengXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,532 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 5a · 162 frost-free days · 3,532 chill hours · 221 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇰🇿KandyagashAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 149 frost-free days · 3,816 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 4b · 149 frost-free days · 3,816 chill hours · 270 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops

    77%match
  10. 10

    🇰🇿QulsaryAtyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5b · 176 frost-free days · 3,393 chill hours · 6.0 in rainZone 5b · 176 frost-free days · 3,393 chill hours · 152 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, lavender, peanut

    77%match
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    🇨🇳BeitunXinjiang, China

    Zone 4a · 164 frost-free days · 3,606 chill hours · 5.6 in rainZone 4a · 164 frost-free days · 3,606 chill hours · 143 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    75%match
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    🇨🇳BurqinXinjiang, China

    Zone 4a · 157 frost-free days · 3,684 chill hours · 7.3 in rainZone 4a · 157 frost-free days · 3,684 chill hours · 185 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops

    75%match
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    🇰🇿NovokazalinskKyzylorda, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 173 frost-free days · 3,470 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 5a · 173 frost-free days · 3,470 chill hours · 123 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, peanut

    74%match
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    🇨🇳ÜrümqiXinjiang, China

    Zone 4b · 182 frost-free days · 3,432 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 4b · 182 frost-free days · 3,432 chill hours · 226 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, rice

    74%match
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    🇷🇺Sol’-IletskOrenburg Oblast, Russia

    Zone 5a · 153 frost-free days · 3,845 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 5a · 153 frost-free days · 3,845 chill hours · 301 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇷🇺OrskOrenburg Oblast, Russia

    Zone 4b · 149 frost-free days · 3,862 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 4b · 149 frost-free days · 3,862 chill hours · 304 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇨🇳BoleXinjiang, China

    Zone 4a · 171 frost-free days · 3,365 chill hours · 7.5 in rainZone 4a · 171 frost-free days · 3,365 chill hours · 191 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    73%match
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    🇰🇿KhromtauAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,896 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 4b · 145 frost-free days · 3,896 chill hours · 296 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 17 great-fit crops

    71%match
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    🇰🇿UshtobeZhetysu Region, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 281 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    69%match
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    🇰🇿BaikonurKazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 170 frost-free days · 3,426 chill hours · 4.7 in rainZone 5a · 170 frost-free days · 3,426 chill hours · 119 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, peanut

    68%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.