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Land with a climate like Mossel Bay

🇿🇦Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Mossel Bay are Gqeberha, South Africa (99% match), Knysna and Humansdorp. About 37,000 sq mi of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Western Cape, South Africa and Eastern Cape, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Mossel Bay are Gqeberha, South Africa (99% match), Knysna and Humansdorp. About 96,000 km² of land in 1 country matches 80% or better, most of it in Western Cape, South Africa and Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Your growing climate

Zone 11a · No frost · 14 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 14 chill hours · 448 mm rain

What grows in Mossel Bay →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Knysna (97), Plettenberg Bay (96)

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    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Motherwell (99), Gqeberha (99)

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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    🇿🇦GqeberhaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 586 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, garlic, apple

    99%match
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    🇿🇦KnysnaWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 675 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    97%match
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    🇿🇦HumansdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 712 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, garlic

    97%match
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    🇿🇦BredasdorpWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 78 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 78 chill hours · 471 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, blueberry

    95%match
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    🇿🇦Port AlfredEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 679 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇿🇦HermanusWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 28 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 28 chill hours · 623 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    91%match
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    🇿🇦RiversdaleWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 211 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 211 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    87%match
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    🇿🇦East LondonEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 891 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇿🇦Cape TownWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 592 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, almond, apple

    82%match
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    🇿🇦GrahamstownEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · No frost · 193 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 10a · No frost · 193 chill hours · 661 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    82%match
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    🇿🇦Somerset WestWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 664 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, apple, peach

    80%match
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    🇿🇦BhishoEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 94 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 94 chill hours · 742 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, peach

    79%match
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    🇿🇦SwellendamWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 152 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 152 chill hours · 380 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    77%match
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    🇦🇺Batemans BayNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 229 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 229 chill hours · 1,028 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, peach, pear

    75%match
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    🇿🇦ButterworthEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 89 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 89 chill hours · 768 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    74%match
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    🇿🇦UlundiKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇦🇺NewcastleNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 1,096 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, blueberry

    73%match
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    🇿🇦EshoweKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 1,068 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    72%match
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    🇦🇺SydneyNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, apple, peach

    71%match
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    🇿🇦PinetownKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 17 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 17 chill hours · 924 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    70%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.