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Land with a climate like East London

🇿🇦East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to East London are Eshowe, South Africa (99% match), Pinetown and Port Alfred. About 82,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.The towns with the closest growing climate to East London are Eshowe, South Africa (99% match), Pinetown and Port Alfred. About 213,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in East London →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Eshowe (99), Pinetown (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Port Alfred (98), Kruisfontein (90)

  3. 3

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newcastle (86), Wollongong (86)

  4. 4

    🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cabreúva (84), Capela do Alto (83)

  5. 5

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Capalaba (87), Narangba (83)

  6. 6

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example George (88), Plettenberg Bay (88)

  7. 7

    🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

    1,200 sq mi3,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ibicoara (83), Barra da Estiva (80)

  8. 8

    🇲🇬Atsimo-Atsinanana, Madagascar

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

    For example Vondrozo (70)

  9. 9

    🇩🇴San Juan Province, Dominican Republic

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

  10. 10

    🇩🇴La Vega, Dominican Republic

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Constanza (79), Jarabacoa (59)

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    🇺🇸Hawaii, United States

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

  12. 12

    🇷🇪Reunion

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Le Tampon (79), Saint-Denis (54)

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇿🇦PinetownKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 17 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 17 chill hours · 924 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇿🇦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 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇿🇦KwaDukuzaKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 950 mm rain

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

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇿🇦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

    95%match
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    🇿🇦ScottburghKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 953 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane, coffee (arabica)

    94%match
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    🇿🇦Port ShepstoneKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,037 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane, coffee (arabica)

    93%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 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, garlic

    90%match
  9. 9

    🇿🇦ButterworthEastern Cape, South Africa

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

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

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇿🇦GqeberhaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 586 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, garlic, apple

    90%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 14 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, garlic

    88%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 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    87%match
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    🇦🇺NewcastleNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 1,096 mm rain

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

    86%match
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    🇦🇺WollongongNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 77 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 77 chill hours · 1,212 mm rain

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

    86%match
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    🇦🇺SydneyNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

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

    86%match
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    🇿🇦Richards BayKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,037 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane, coffee (arabica)

    85%match
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    🇦🇺Port MacquarieNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 86 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 86 chill hours · 1,437 mm rain

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

    85%match
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    🇦🇺Central CoastNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 137 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 137 chill hours · 1,202 mm rain

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

    84%match
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    🇦🇺Coffs HarbourNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 59 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 59 chill hours · 1,602 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice, coffee (arabica)

    84%match
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    🇿🇦NcotshaneKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 16 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 16 chill hours · 670 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: mango

    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.