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Land with a climate like Dunhuang

🇨🇳Dunhuang, Gansu, China

The towns with the closest growing climate to Dunhuang are Hami, China (90% match), Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi Nongchang and Qiemo. About 146,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Xinjiang, China, Gansu, China and Inner Mongolia, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Dunhuang are Hami, China (90% match), Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi Nongchang and Qiemo. About 379,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Xinjiang, China, Gansu, China and Inner Mongolia, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,133 chill hours · 1.6 in rainZone 5a · 163 frost-free days · 3,133 chill hours · 41 mm rain

What grows in Dunhuang →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hami (90), Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi Nongchang (88)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Gansu, China

    13k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yùmén (85), Jiuquan (76)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Inner Mongolia, China

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dalain Hob (84), Ehen Hudag (63)

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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    🇨🇳HamiXinjiang, China

    Zone 4b · 175 frost-free days · 3,167 chill hours · 1.8 in rainZone 4b · 175 frost-free days · 3,167 chill hours · 46 mm rain

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

    90%match
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    🇨🇳Sandaoling Lutiankuang Wuqi NongchangXinjiang, China

    Zone 4b · 175 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 2.0 in rainZone 4b · 175 frost-free days · 3,144 chill hours · 52 mm rain

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

    88%match
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    🇨🇳QiemoXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 182 frost-free days · 2,978 chill hours · 1.1 in rainZone 5a · 182 frost-free days · 2,978 chill hours · 28 mm rain

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

    86%match
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    🇨🇳YùménGansu, China

    Zone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,386 chill hours · 2.8 in rainZone 5a · 156 frost-free days · 3,386 chill hours · 72 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇨🇳Dalain HobInner Mongolia, China

    Zone 4a · 169 frost-free days · 3,264 chill hours · 1.4 in rainZone 4a · 169 frost-free days · 3,264 chill hours · 36 mm rain

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

    84%match
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    🇨🇳JiuquanGansu, China

    Zone 5a · 158 frost-free days · 3,418 chill hours · 3.9 in rainZone 5a · 158 frost-free days · 3,418 chill hours · 99 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    76%match
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    🇨🇳YuliXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 194 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 1.8 in rainZone 5a · 194 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 45 mm rain

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

    73%match
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    🇨🇳LanggarXinjiang, China

    Zone 6a · 198 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 1.5 in rainZone 6a · 198 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 38 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, lavender, peach

    73%match
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    🇨🇳OytograkXinjiang, China

    Zone 6a · 197 frost-free days · 2,641 chill hours · 1.5 in rainZone 6a · 197 frost-free days · 2,641 chill hours · 38 mm rain

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

    72%match
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    🇨🇳Ālā'ĕrXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 189 frost-free days · 2,922 chill hours · 2.1 in rainZone 5a · 189 frost-free days · 2,922 chill hours · 53 mm rain

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

    66%match
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    🇨🇳HejingXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 190 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 3.7 in rainZone 5a · 190 frost-free days · 3,010 chill hours · 95 mm rain

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

    65%match
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    🇨🇳TumxukXinjiang, China

    Zone 5b · 203 frost-free days · 2,725 chill hours · 2.0 in rainZone 5b · 203 frost-free days · 2,725 chill hours · 52 mm rain

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

    63%match
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    🇨🇳Ehen HudagInner Mongolia, China

    Zone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,387 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 5a · 161 frost-free days · 3,387 chill hours · 126 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    63%match
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    🇨🇳KorlaXinjiang, China

    Zone 5b · 201 frost-free days · 2,845 chill hours · 2.4 in rainZone 5b · 201 frost-free days · 2,845 chill hours · 61 mm rain

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

    62%match
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    🇨🇳LangruXinjiang, China

    Zone 6a · 204 frost-free days · 2,751 chill hours · 1.3 in rainZone 6a · 204 frost-free days · 2,751 chill hours · 32 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, walnut, peach

    60%match
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    🇨🇳LuntaiXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 189 frost-free days · 2,997 chill hours · 4.0 in rainZone 5a · 189 frost-free days · 2,997 chill hours · 101 mm rain

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

    58%match
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    🇨🇳AqsuXinjiang, China

    Zone 5b · 193 frost-free days · 2,916 chill hours · 2.8 in rainZone 5b · 193 frost-free days · 2,916 chill hours · 71 mm rain

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

    57%match
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    🇨🇳Han’airikeXinjiang, China

    Zone 6a · 209 frost-free days · 2,593 chill hours · 1.4 in rainZone 6a · 209 frost-free days · 2,593 chill hours · 35 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, rice, cotton

    56%match
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    🇨🇳GuōlèmùdéQinghai, China

    Zone 5b · 139 frost-free days · 3,613 chill hours · 1.8 in rainZone 5b · 139 frost-free days · 3,613 chill hours · 46 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    56%match
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    🇨🇳Bayan NurInner Mongolia, China

    Zone 5a · 170 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 5.7 in rainZone 5a · 170 frost-free days · 3,319 chill hours · 144 mm rain

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

    55%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.