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Land with a climate like Mafeteng

🇱🇸Mafeteng, Mafeteng District, Lesotho

The towns with the closest growing climate to Mafeteng are Thaba Nchu, South Africa (99% match), Quthing and Hlotse. About 137,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Free State, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and North West, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Mafeteng are Thaba Nchu, South Africa (99% match), Quthing and Hlotse. About 356,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Free State, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and North West, South Africa.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,265 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,265 chill hours · 601 mm rain

What grows in Mafeteng →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦Free State, South Africa

    37k sq mi95k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Thaba Nchu (99), Hlohlolwane (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    29k sq mi76k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aliwal North (99), Burgersdorp (98)

  3. 3

    🇿🇦North West, South Africa

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wolmaransstad (90), Fochville (90)

  4. 4

    🇦🇷San Luis, Argentina

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Luis (82), Villa Mercedes (81)

  5. 5

    🇦🇷Cordoba, Argentina

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa Carlos Paz (74), Alta Gracia (70)

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    🇱🇸Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qacha’s Nek (88)

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    🇱🇸Quthing, Lesotho

    2,100 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Quthing (99)

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    🇱🇸Mafeteng District, Lesotho

    1,800 sq mi4,700 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇦🇷Tucuman, Argentina

    800 sq mi2,100 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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    🇿🇦Thaba NchuFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 544 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇱🇸QuthingLesotho

    Zone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 1,071 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 1,071 chill hours · 590 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, citrus

    99%match
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    🇱🇸HlotseLeribe, Lesotho

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,202 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,202 chill hours · 626 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦MarquardFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,281 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 251 frost-free days · 1,281 chill hours · 583 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇱🇸MaputsoeLeribe, Lesotho

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,302 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,302 chill hours · 630 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦Aliwal NorthEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 512 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇿🇦BloemfonteinFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8b · 253 frost-free days · 1,245 chill hours · 491 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, rice

    98%match
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    🇿🇦BurgersdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 469 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, rice

    98%match
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    🇿🇦SenekalFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,203 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,203 chill hours · 561 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut

    98%match
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    🇿🇦Winnie MandelaFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,182 chill hours · 496 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice, cotton

    97%match
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    🇿🇦TheunissenFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,108 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,108 chill hours · 497 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, rice, cotton

    96%match
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    🇿🇦HeilbronFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,187 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,187 chill hours · 592 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    96%match
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    🇿🇦BethlehemFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦FrankfortFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,259 chill hours · 662 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇿🇦MiddelburgEastern 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 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, citrus

    94%match
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    🇿🇦PhomolongFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,029 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,029 chill hours · 509 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, citrus

    94%match
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    🇿🇦ReitzFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,368 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,368 chill hours · 642 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇿🇦BultfonteinFree State, South Africa

    Zone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,204 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,204 chill hours · 490 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, rice

    93%match
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    🇿🇦PhuthaditjhabaFree State, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 1,084 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 1,084 chill hours · 727 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    92%match
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    🇿🇦TlokoengEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 304 frost-free days · 822 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 9a · 304 frost-free days · 822 chill hours · 684 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, citrus, kiwifruit

    90%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.