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Land with a climate like Monkey Bay

🇲🇼Monkey Bay, Southern Region, Malawi

The towns with the closest growing climate to Monkey Bay are Mandimba, Mozambique (88% match), Ntcheu and Montepuez. About 110,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nampula, Mozambique, Niassa Province, Mozambique and Ruvuma, Tanzania.The towns with the closest growing climate to Monkey Bay are Mandimba, Mozambique (88% match), Ntcheu and Montepuez. About 284,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nampula, Mozambique, Niassa Province, Mozambique and Ruvuma, Tanzania.

Your growing climate

Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 940 mm rain

What grows in Monkey Bay →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇲🇿Nampula, Mozambique

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mutuáli (80), Namapa-erati (79)

  2. 2

    🇲🇿Niassa Province, Mozambique

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mandimba (88), Cuamba (83)

  3. 3

    🇹🇿Ruvuma, Tanzania

    9,100 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maposeni (79), Tunduru (78)

  4. 4

    🇲🇼Central Region, Malawi

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ntcheu (86), Nkhotakota (81)

  5. 5

    🇲🇼Southern Region, Malawi

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mwanza (83), Blantyre (73)

  6. 6

    🇲🇿Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Montepuez (84), Mueda (79)

  7. 7

    🇹🇿Lindi, Tanzania

    1,200 sq mi3,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ruangwa (75), Liwale (72)

  8. 8

    🇹🇿Mtwara, Tanzania

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newala Kisimani (84), Newala (83)

  9. 9

    🇿🇲Eastern Province, Zambia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Katete (72), Sinda (68)

  10. 10

    🇲🇬Sofia, Madagascar

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Befandriana (71), Antsohihy (56)

  11. 11

    🇿🇲Muchinga, Zambia

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Isoka (56), Chinsali (53)

  12. 12

    🇲🇽Oaxaca, Mexico

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz (54), Puerto Escondido (50)

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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    🇲🇿MandimbaNiassa Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,042 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    88%match
  2. 2

    🇲🇼NtcheuCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,031 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, wine grapes

    86%match
  3. 3

    🇲🇿MontepuezCabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 970 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    84%match
  4. 4

    🇹🇿Newala KisimaniMtwara, Tanzania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,127 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    84%match
  5. 5

    🇲🇿CuambaNiassa Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 21 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇲🇼MwanzaSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇲🇼NkhotakotaCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,382 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇲🇿MutuáliNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,039 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇲🇿MuedaCabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,073 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    79%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇿RibáuèNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,146 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇲🇿NamialoNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 931 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇹🇿TunduruRuvuma, Tanzania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 943 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇹🇿SongeaRuvuma, Tanzania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,101 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato

    78%match
  14. 14

    🇹🇿TandahimbaMtwara, Tanzania

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,047 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇲🇿SongoTete, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 875 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇲🇿ChiúreCabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,013 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇲🇿NampulaMozambique

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇲🇼RumphiNorthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 815 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, potato

    75%match
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    🇲🇿MacomiaCabo Delgado Province, Mozambique

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,048 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    75%match
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    🇧🇷Palmas de Monte AltoBahia, Brazil

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 703 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    74%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.