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Land with a climate like Ficksburg

🇿🇦Ficksburg, Free State, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ficksburg are Bethlehem, South Africa (99% match), Reitz and Zastron. About 128,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Free State, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and Mpumalanga, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ficksburg are Bethlehem, South Africa (99% match), Reitz and Zastron. About 331,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Free State, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and Mpumalanga, South Africa.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,350 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,350 chill hours · 632 mm rain

What grows in Ficksburg →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦Free State, South Africa

    37k sq mi95k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bethlehem (99), Reitz (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    28k sq mi71k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aliwal North (95), Burgersdorp (95)

  3. 3

    🇿🇦Mpumalanga, South Africa

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Standerton (95), Balfour (93)

  4. 4

    🇦🇷San Luis, Argentina

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa Mercedes (82), San Luis (72)

  5. 5

    🇦🇷Cordoba, Argentina

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa Carlos Paz (80), Cosquín (78)

  6. 6

    🇱🇸Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qacha’s Nek (88)

  7. 7

    🇱🇸Quthing, Lesotho

    2,100 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Quthing (96)

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    🇱🇸Mafeteng District, Lesotho

    1,800 sq mi4,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mafeteng (99)

  9. 9

    🇦🇷Tucuman, Argentina

    800 sq mi2,100 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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    🇿🇦BethlehemFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦ReitzFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,368 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,368 chill hours · 642 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦ZastronFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 594 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦FrankfortFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 662 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
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    🇱🇸MafetengMafeteng District, Lesotho

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,265 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,265 chill hours · 601 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦HeilbronFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,187 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,187 chill hours · 592 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    97%match
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    🇱🇸Mohale's HoekMohale's Hoek District, Lesotho

    Zone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 1,087 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 1,087 chill hours · 618 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    97%match
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    🇿🇦PhuthaditjhabaFree State, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 1,084 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 1,084 chill hours · 727 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    97%match
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    🇿🇦WinburgFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,191 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,191 chill hours · 512 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    96%match
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    🇿🇦BotshabeloFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 521 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    95%match
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    🇿🇦Aliwal NorthEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 512 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦StandertonMpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 650 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦BurgersdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 469 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, rice

    95%match
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    🇿🇦VredeFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,332 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,332 chill hours · 590 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦HarrismithFree State, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,099 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,099 chill hours · 660 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦BloemfonteinFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 491 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, rice

    93%match
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    🇿🇦eMbalenhleMpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 1,009 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 1,009 chill hours · 636 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇿🇦SowetoGauteng, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 280 frost-free days · 1,015 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 280 frost-free days · 1,015 chill hours · 644 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut

    93%match
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    🇿🇦Winnie MandelaFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 496 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice, cotton

    92%match
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    🇿🇦VolksrustMpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 289 frost-free days · 1,029 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 289 frost-free days · 1,029 chill hours · 740 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    91%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.