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Land with a climate like Gao, Mali

🇲🇱Gao, Mali

The towns with the closest growing climate to Gao, Mali are Bourem, Mali (99% match), Andéranboukan and I-n-Tillit. About 629,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania, Tahoua Region, Niger and Assaba, Mauritania.The towns with the closest growing climate to Gao, Mali are Bourem, Mali (99% match), Andéranboukan and I-n-Tillit. About 1.6 million km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania, Tahoua Region, Niger and Assaba, Mauritania.

Your growing climate

Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.3 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 159 mm rain

What grows in Gao, Mali →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇲🇷Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Néma (94), Mbera (92)

  2. 2

    🇳🇪Tahoua Region, Niger

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tchin Tabaradèn (95), Abalak (95)

  3. 3

    🇲🇷Assaba, Mauritania

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elghabra (91), Guerou (89)

  4. 4

    🇳🇪Zinder Region, Niger

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tanout (89), Zinder (86)

  5. 5

    🇲🇱Gao, Mali

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bourem (99), I-n-Tillit (99)

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    🇳🇪Tillabéri Region, Niger

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayorou (93), Méhana (89)

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    🇸🇩White Nile, Sudan

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ad Douiem (96), Al-Quṭaynah (95)

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    🇲🇱Tombouctou, Mali

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Diré (98), Goundam (97)

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    🇸🇩North Kordofan, Sudan

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bārah (88), Umm Ruwaba (82)

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    🇲🇷Hodh El Gharbi, Mauritania

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ayoun El Atrous (93), Ṭinṭâne (90)

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    🇸🇩Kassala, Sudan

    7,500 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example New Halfa (89), Kassala (87)

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    🇲🇱Ménaka, Mali

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Andéranboukan (99)

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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    🇲🇱BouremGao, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 128 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇲🇱AndéranboukanMénaka, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.3 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 237 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇲🇱I-n-TillitGao, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 222 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇲🇱DiréTombouctou, Mali

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 183 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, wheat

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇹🇩BiltineWadi Fira, Chad

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 222 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇸🇩Ad DouiemWhite Nile, Sudan

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 183 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇳🇪Tchin TabaradènTahoua Region, Niger

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 208 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇳🇪AbalakTahoua Region, Niger

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.6 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 243 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇸🇩Al-QuṭaynahWhite Nile, Sudan

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 150 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇲🇷NémaHodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 182 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇲🇱TimbuktuTombouctou, Mali

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.6 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 143 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: wheat, citrus

    94%match
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    🇲🇷Ayoun El AtrousHodh El Gharbi, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 196 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇳🇪AyorouTillabéri Region, Niger

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 276 mm rain

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

    93%match
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    🇸🇩Al ManāqilAl Jazirah, Sudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.4 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 213 mm rain

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

    93%match
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    🇲🇷MberaHodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 222 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇲🇷BougadoumHodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.6 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 244 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇳🇪NguigmiDiffa, Niger

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.3 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 161 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, wheat

    92%match
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    🇳🇪TahouaTahoua Region, Niger

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 317 mm rain

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

    92%match
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    🇸🇩Al HasaheisaAl Jazirah, Sudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.6 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 193 mm rain

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

    91%match
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    🇲🇷ElghabraAssaba, Mauritania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.1 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 181 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops

    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.