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Land with a climate like Machala

🇪🇨Machala, El Oro, Ecuador

The towns with the closest growing climate to Machala are Portoviejo, Ecuador (94% match), Bahía de Caráquez and Playas. About 13,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Manabí, Ecuador, Guayas, Ecuador and El Oro, Ecuador.The towns with the closest growing climate to Machala are Portoviejo, Ecuador (94% match), Bahía de Caráquez and Playas. About 33,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Manabí, Ecuador, Guayas, Ecuador and El Oro, Ecuador.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 407 mm rain

What grows in Machala →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇪🇨Manabí, Ecuador

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montecristi (95), Portoviejo (94)

  2. 2

    🇪🇨Guayas, Ecuador

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Playas (88), Naranjal (84)

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    🇪🇨El Oro, Ecuador

    2,100 sq mi5,400 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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    🇪🇨PortoviejoManabí, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 640 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇪🇨Bahía de CaráquezManabí, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 495 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇪🇨PlayasGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 419 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed), barley

    88%match
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    🇪🇨NaranjalGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,073 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇪🇨Santa ElenaEcuador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 320 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed), barley, potato

    75%match
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    🇪🇨GuayaquilGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,262 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    67%match
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    🇪🇨BalzarGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,343 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    63%match
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    🇦🇴ÚcuaBengo, Angola

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,018 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    60%match
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    🇦🇴MuxaluandoBengo, Angola

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

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    55%match
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    🇧🇷IaçuBahia, Brazil

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 540 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 22 great-fit crops

    51%match
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    🇦🇴Porto AmboimKwanza Sul, Angola

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 614 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops

    50%match
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    🇦🇴LuandaAngola

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 710 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    49%match
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    🇧🇷PetrolândiaPernambuco, Brazil

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 402 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed), barley, potato

    48%match
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    🇪🇨El EmpalmeGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    48%match
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    🇹🇿MazindeTanga, Tanzania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 623 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed), barley

    48%match
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    🇪🇨La TroncalCanar, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,799 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    48%match
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    🇪🇨BabahoyoLos Ríos, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    47%match
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    🇦🇴SumbeKwanza Sul, Angola

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 579 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 22 great-fit crops

    47%match
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    🇧🇷TanhaçuBahia, Brazil

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 580 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 22 great-fit crops

    46%match
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    🇦🇴N'zetoZaire, Angola

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 920 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops

    46%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.