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Land with a climate like Butterworth, South Africa

🇿🇦Butterworth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Butterworth, South Africa are Bhisho, South Africa (99% match), Mthatha and Clydesdale. About 76,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Mpumalanga, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Butterworth, South Africa are Bhisho, South Africa (99% match), Mthatha and Clydesdale. About 198,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Butterworth, South Africa →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    27k sq mi70k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bhisho (99), Ndevana (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    25k sq mi66k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Richmond (98), Mpumalanga (95)

  3. 3

    🇿🇦Mpumalanga, South Africa

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Piet Retief (89), Lukwatini (88)

  4. 4

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Toowoomba (80), Warwick (75)

  5. 5

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    2,500 sq mi6,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Liverpool (80), Cessnock (80)

  6. 6

    🇸🇿Hhohho Region, Eswatini

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

    For example Mbabane (92), Lobamba (79)

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    🇧🇴Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia

    900 sq mi2,200 km² matching 80% or better

  8. 8

    🇲🇽Nuevo León, Mexico

    800 sq mi2,100 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇸🇿Manzini Region, Eswatini

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Manzini (77)

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    🇧🇴La Paz Department, Bolivia

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇲🇽Tamaulipas, Mexico

    300 sq mi700 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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    🇿🇦BhishoEastern Cape, South Africa

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

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇿🇦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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, peach, 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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, peach, saffron

    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 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    99%match
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    🇿🇦AliceEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 239 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 239 chill hours · 585 mm rain

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

    96%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, rice

    95%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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    93%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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, peach, rice

    93%match
  10. 10

    🇿🇦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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, peach

    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 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, peach, rice

    92%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 15 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple

    90%match
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    🇿🇦East LondonEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 891 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    90%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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    89%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 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    89%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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    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 18 of your 20 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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice, coffee (arabica)

    86%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, macadamia, rice

    85%match
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    🇿🇦BarbertonMpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 109 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 109 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    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.