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Land with a climate like Hobbs

🇺🇸Hobbs, New Mexico, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hobbs are Carlsbad, United States (99% match), Roswell and Midland. About 172,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, New Mexico, United States and Northern Cape, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hobbs are Carlsbad, United States (99% match), Roswell and Midland. About 446,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Texas, United States, New Mexico, United States and Northern Cape, South Africa.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,399 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,399 chill hours · 349 mm rain

What grows in Hobbs →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    37k sq mi95k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Odessa (98), Midland (98)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸New Mexico, United States

    31k sq mi79k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Carlsbad (99), Roswell (98)

  3. 3

    🇿🇦Northern Cape, South Africa

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example De Aar (89), Postmasburg (79)

  4. 4

    🇲🇽Chihuahua, Mexico

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nuevo Casas Grandes (79), Chihuahua (75)

  5. 5

    🇿🇦Free State, South Africa

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bloemfontein (77), Bultfontein (75)

  6. 6

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Middelburg (79), Aliwal North (77)

  7. 7

    🇦🇷San Juan, Argentina

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rawson (77), San Juan (74)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸Oklahoma, United States

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Altus (60)

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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    🇺🇸CarlsbadNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸RoswellNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 279 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸MidlandTexas, United States

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,221 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,221 chill hours · 359 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇺🇸LubbockTexas, United States

    Zone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 8a · 228 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 430 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸OdessaTexas, United States

    Zone 8a · 252 frost-free days · 1,143 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 8a · 252 frost-free days · 1,143 chill hours · 326 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive

    98%match
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    🇺🇸Big SpringTexas, United States

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,246 chill hours · 427 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸ClovisNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 1,928 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 1,928 chill hours · 378 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸PlainviewTexas, United States

    Zone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 1,766 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 1,766 chill hours · 455 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇿🇦De Aar↻Seasons flipped. Northern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,062 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,062 chill hours · 314 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, tea

    89%match
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    🇺🇸AlamogordoNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 8.0 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 202 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇺🇸AmarilloTexas, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 1,958 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 1,958 chill hours · 443 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇺🇸HerefordTexas, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,050 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,050 chill hours · 377 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇺🇸Las CrucesNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 198 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇿🇦Postmasburg↻Seasons flipped. Northern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,010 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,010 chill hours · 325 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, tea

    79%match
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    🇺🇸DumasTexas, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 406 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 29 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇿🇦Kimberley↻Seasons flipped. Northern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 418 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, citrus

    79%match
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    🇲🇽Nuevo Casas GrandesChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,279 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,279 chill hours · 267 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, tea, fig

    79%match
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    🇲🇽Agua PrietaSonora, Mexico

    Zone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 1,193 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 1,193 chill hours · 312 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, fig

    79%match
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    🇿🇦Middelburg↻Seasons flipped. Eastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,122 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,122 chill hours · 378 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, tea, olive

    79%match
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    🇦🇷Rawson↻Seasons flipped. San Juan, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,018 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,018 chill hours · 256 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, tea

    77%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.