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Land with a climate like Bhisho

🇿🇦Bhisho, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bhisho are Butterworth, South Africa (99% match), Grahamstown and Clydesdale. About 87,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Queensland, Australia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Bhisho are Butterworth, South Africa (99% match), Grahamstown and Clydesdale. About 226,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Queensland, Australia.

Your growing climate

Zone 10b · No frost · 94 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 94 chill hours · 742 mm rain

What grows in Bhisho →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    28k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Butterworth (99), Grahamstown (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    25k sq mi64k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Richmond (97), Mpumalanga (94)

  3. 3

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Toowoomba (84), Warwick (79)

  4. 4

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Liverpool (84), Cessnock (83)

  5. 5

    🇿🇦Mpumalanga, South Africa

    5,600 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Piet Retief (88), Lukwatini (86)

  6. 6

    🇸🇿Hhohho Region, Eswatini

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mbabane (91), Lobamba (78)

  7. 7

    🇲🇽Nuevo León, Mexico

    800 sq mi2,100 km² matching 80% or better

  8. 8

    🇸🇿Manzini Region, Eswatini

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Manzini (75)

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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    🇿🇦ButterworthEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 89 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 89 chill hours · 768 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦GrahamstownEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · No frost · 193 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 10a · No frost · 193 chill hours · 661 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, saffron

    99%match
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    🇿🇦ClydesdaleEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 264 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 264 chill hours · 784 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦MthathaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 250 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 250 chill hours · 721 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron

    99%match
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    🇿🇦MpumalangaKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 156 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 156 chill hours · 847 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, rice

    94%match
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    🇿🇦Fort BeaufortEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 264 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 264 chill hours · 544 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron

    94%match
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    🇿🇦GeorgeWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 85 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 85 chill hours · 598 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple

    93%match
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    🇿🇦UlundiKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    92%match
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    🇿🇦HowickKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 514 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 514 chill hours · 793 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, olive

    92%match
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    🇿🇦FrischgewaagdKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 258 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 258 chill hours · 836 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, rice

    92%match
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    🇿🇦GreytownKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 531 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 531 chill hours · 808 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, almond

    92%match
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    🇸🇿MbabaneHhohho Region, Eswatini

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 174 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 174 chill hours · 1,254 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice

    91%match
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    🇿🇦KariegaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 132 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 132 chill hours · 485 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, macadamia, rice

    89%match
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    🇿🇦Piet RetiefMpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 457 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 457 chill hours · 855 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, olive

    88%match
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    🇿🇦VryheidKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 348 frost-free days · 499 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 348 frost-free days · 499 chill hours · 812 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, olive

    88%match
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    🇿🇦DundeeKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 591 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 591 chill hours · 754 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, olive

    86%match
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    🇿🇦WembesiKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 680 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 313 frost-free days · 680 chill hours · 825 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, apple, almond

    86%match
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    🇿🇦EshoweKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 1,068 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, coffee (arabica)

    85%match
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    🇿🇦KnysnaWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 675 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    84%match
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    🇿🇦HumansdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 712 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry

    84%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.