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Land with a climate like Jaffna

🇱🇰Jaffna, Northern Province, Sri Lanka

The towns with the closest growing climate to Jaffna are Mullaittivu, Sri Lanka (99% match), Rameswaram and Mannar. About 40,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, India and Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.The towns with the closest growing climate to Jaffna are Mullaittivu, Sri Lanka (99% match), Rameswaram and Mannar. About 104,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, India and Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,539 mm rain

What grows in Jaffna →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇱🇰Northern Province, Sri Lanka

    8,300 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mullaittivu (99), Mannar (98)

  2. 2

    🇮🇳Tamil Nadu, India

    8,000 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rameswaram (98), Pāmban (98)

  3. 3

    🇱🇰Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Trincomalee (97), Vakarai (93)

  4. 4

    🇱🇰North Western Province, Sri Lanka

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puttalam (93), Chilaw (81)

  5. 5

    🇹🇭Surat Thani, Thailand

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ko Samui (84), Surat Thani (70)

  6. 6

    🇹🇭Songkhla, Thailand

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ban Mai (83), Ranot (82)

  7. 7

    🇻🇳Khanh Hoa, Vietnam

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tu Bông (88), Nha Trang (87)

  8. 8

    🇹🇭Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pak Phanang (77), Nakhon Si Thammarat (73)

  9. 9

    🇻🇳Dak Lak, Vietnam

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuy Hòa (87), Sông Cầu (81)

  10. 10

    🇻🇳Gia Lai, Vietnam

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example An Nhơn (79), Qui Nhon (79)

  11. 11

    🇮🇳Puducherry, India

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kāraikāl (87), Ariyānkuppam (66)

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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    🇱🇰MullaittivuNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,667 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇮🇳RameswaramTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,058 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇱🇰MannarNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,234 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇱🇰VavuniyaNorthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,646 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇱🇰AnuradhapuraNorth Central Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,474 mm rain

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

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇱🇰TrincomaleeEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,611 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇮🇳VedaraniyamTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,669 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇱🇰VakaraiEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,758 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops

    93%match
  9. 9

    🇱🇰PuttalamNorth Western Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    93%match
  10. 10

    🇮🇳AdirampattinamTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,380 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    92%match
  11. 11

    🇮🇳TondiTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,164 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    90%match
  12. 12

    🇮🇳NagapattinamTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,565 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    89%match
  13. 13

    🇱🇰AmbalantotaSouthern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,221 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia

    88%match
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    🇱🇰KataragamaUva Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,271 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia

    88%match
  15. 15

    🇱🇰DambullaCentral Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,838 mm rain

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

    88%match
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    🇮🇳RamanathapuramTamil Nadu, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,018 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    88%match
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    🇻🇳Nha TrangKhanh Hoa, Vietnam

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,157 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia

    87%match
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    🇻🇳Ninh HòaKhanh Hoa, Vietnam

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,218 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    87%match
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    🇻🇳Tuy HòaDak Lak, Vietnam

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,467 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, fig

    87%match
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    🇱🇰KalmunaiEastern Province, Sri Lanka

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,013 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops

    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.