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Land with a climate like Dambulla

🇱🇰Dambulla, Central Province, Sri Lanka

The towns with the closest growing climate to Dambulla are Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (98% match), Ampara and Kataragama. About 70,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Dambulla are Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (98% match), Ampara and Kataragama. About 181,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka and Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,838 mm rain

What grows in Dambulla →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇱🇰Northern Province, Sri Lanka

    8,300 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vavuniya (98), Mullaittivu (91)

  2. 2

    🇱🇰Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ampara (95), Eravur Town (92)

  3. 3

    🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Luwuk (78), Bungku (77)

  4. 4

    🇱🇰North Western Province, Sri Lanka

    3,300 sq mi8,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puttalam (90), Chilaw (87)

  5. 5

    🇹🇭Surat Thani, Thailand

    3,200 sq mi8,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ko Samui (88), Surat Thani (73)

  6. 6

    🇹🇭Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

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

    For example Pak Phanang (84), Nakhon Si Thammarat (83)

  7. 7

    🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lauro de Freitas (84), Vera Cruz (83)

  8. 8

    🇮🇩Aceh, Indonesia

    2,400 sq mi6,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sigli (86), Reuleuet (86)

  9. 9

    🇧🇷Sergipe, Brazil

    2,300 sq mi6,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Barra dos Coqueiros (90), Aracaju (89)

  10. 10

    🇮🇩South Sulawesi, Indonesia

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Watampone (80), Sengkang (80)

  11. 11

    🇹🇭Songkhla, Thailand

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ranot (87), Ban Mai (81)

  12. 12

    🇭🇳Atlántida Department, Honduras

    2,000 sq mi5,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example La Ceiba (84), La Ceiba (83)

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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    🇱🇰VavuniyaNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,646 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇱🇰AmparaEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,155 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    95%match
  3. 3

    🇱🇰KataragamaUva Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,271 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇱🇰VakaraiEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,758 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops

    92%match
  5. 5

    🇱🇰PottuvilEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,790 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇱🇰MullaittivuNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,667 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    91%match
  7. 7

    🇱🇰TrincomaleeEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,611 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops

    90%match
  8. 8

    🇱🇰BatticaloaEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,001 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇱🇰PuttalamNorth Western Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇱🇰AmbalantotaSouthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,221 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    90%match
  11. 11

    🇧🇷Aracaju↻Seasons flipped. Sergipe, Brazil

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,541 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    89%match
  12. 12

    🇱🇰JaffnaNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,539 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    88%match
  13. 13

    🇹🇭Ko SamuiSurat Thani, Thailand

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,712 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    88%match
  14. 14

    🇩🇴Puerto PlataDominican Republic

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,474 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, wheat

    88%match
  15. 15

    🇱🇰ChilawNorth Western Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,685 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇮🇩SigliAceh, Indonesia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,817 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇮🇩ReuleuetAceh, Indonesia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,777 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇱🇰MannarNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,234 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    84%match
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    🇭🇳La CeibaAtlántida Department, Honduras

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,291 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇧🇷João Pessoa↻Seasons flipped. Paraíba, Brazil

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,055 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    83%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.