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Land with a climate like Gaalkacyo

🇸🇴Gaalkacyo, Mudug, Somalia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Gaalkacyo are Qorof, Ethiopia (99% match), Yamarugley and Cabudwaaq. About 128,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Somali, Ethiopia, Hiiraan, Somalia and Mudug, Somalia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Gaalkacyo are Qorof, Ethiopia (99% match), Yamarugley and Cabudwaaq. About 331,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Somali, Ethiopia, Hiiraan, Somalia and Mudug, Somalia.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.4 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 187 mm rain

What grows in Gaalkacyo →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇪🇹Somali, Ethiopia

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qorof (99), Waal (99)

  2. 2

    🇸🇴Hiiraan, Somalia

    9,800 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Beledweyne (87), Buulobarde (83)

  3. 3

    🇸🇴Mudug, Somalia

    8,300 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

  4. 4

    🇸🇴Nugaal, Somalia

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Garoowe (91)

  5. 5

    🇰🇪Mandera County, Kenya

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ramu (78), Mandera (74)

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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    🇪🇹QorofSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.1 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 232 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇪🇹YamarugleySomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.1 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 230 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇸🇴CabudwaaqGalguduud, Somalia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 254 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇪🇹RaqoSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 254 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇴BalanbaleGalguduud, Somalia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 294 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇪🇹LasoanoSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 297 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    94%match
  7. 7

    🇪🇹WarderSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 288 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    91%match
  8. 8

    🇸🇴GarooweNugaal, Somalia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.2 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 133 mm rain

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

    91%match
  9. 9

    🇸🇴BeledweyneHiiraan, Somalia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 336 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops

    87%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇴LaascaanoodSool, Somalia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.1 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 129 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, tea, macadamia

    84%match
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    🇸🇴BuulobardeHiiraan, Somalia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 354 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇪🇹GodeSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 332 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇰🇪RamuMandera County, Kenya

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.8 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 250 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇰🇪ManderaMandera County, Kenya

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.8 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 248 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇪🇹Kebri DaharSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 400 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    73%match
  16. 16

    🇸🇴DhamasGedo, Somalia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 308 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    72%match
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    🇸🇴CeeldheerGalguduud, Somalia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    66%match
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    🇰🇪TakabaMandera County, Kenya

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 310 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    65%match
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    🇸🇴LuuqGedo, Somalia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 286 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops

    64%match
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    🇰🇪El WakMandera County, Kenya

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 339 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    61%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.