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Land with a climate like Despatch

🇿🇦Despatch, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Despatch are George, South Africa (99% match), Knysna and Riversdale. About 122,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, Santa Fe, Argentina and Queensland, Australia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Despatch are George, South Africa (99% match), Knysna and Riversdale. About 316,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, Santa Fe, Argentina and Queensland, Australia.

Your growing climate

Zone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 501 mm rain

What grows in Despatch →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Port Alfred (93), Qonce (92)

  2. 2

    🇦🇷Santa Fe, Argentina

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rafaela (82), San Justo (81)

  3. 3

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Toowoomba (83), Warwick (82)

  4. 4

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cessnock (90), Liverpool (90)

  5. 5

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mpumalanga (88), Ulundi (86)

  6. 6

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Groot-Brakrivier (99), George (99)

  7. 7

    🇦🇷Cordoba, Argentina

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Morteros (83), San Francisco (81)

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    🇦🇷Entre Rios, Argentina

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Victoria (81), Diamante (81)

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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    🇿🇦GeorgeWestern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, potato

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇿🇦KnysnaWestern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    96%match
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    🇿🇦RiversdaleWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 211 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 211 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, maize (corn)

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦BredasdorpWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 78 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 78 chill hours · 471 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, maize (corn)

    93%match
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    🇿🇦Port AlfredEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 679 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, potato, maize (corn)

    93%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 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    91%match
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    🇦🇺LiverpoolNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 274 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 274 chill hours · 813 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, peach

    90%match
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    🇿🇦DimbazaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 144 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 144 chill hours · 680 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, maize (corn), peach

    89%match
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    🇦🇺MaitlandNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 277 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 277 chill hours · 857 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, apple, peach

    88%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 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, maize (corn), peanut

    87%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 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), peanut, cotton

    86%match
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    🇿🇦PietermaritzburgKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 752 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), olive, peanut

    85%match
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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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, maize (corn), soybean

    85%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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, peach, cotton

    84%match
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    🇿🇦SwellendamWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 152 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 152 chill hours · 380 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, maize (corn), apple

    84%match
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    🇦🇺ToowoombaQueensland, Australia

    Zone 9b · 335 frost-free days · 485 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9b · 335 frost-free days · 485 chill hours · 739 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, almond, maize (corn)

    83%match
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    🇦🇺MuswellbrookNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 9b · 324 frost-free days · 533 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9b · 324 frost-free days · 533 chill hours · 630 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, olive, almond

    83%match
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    🇦🇺TareeNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 207 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 207 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), potato, soybean

    83%match
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    🇦🇷MorterosCordoba, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 400 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 400 chill hours · 853 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, apple, peanut

    83%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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), potato, soybean

    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.