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Land with a climate like Motherwell, South Africa

🇿🇦Motherwell, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Motherwell, South Africa are Humansdorp, South Africa (98% match), George and Knysna. About 73,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, Western Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Motherwell, South Africa are Humansdorp, South Africa (98% match), George and Knysna. About 189,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Eastern Cape, South Africa, Western Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.

Your growing climate

Zone 10b · No frost · 101 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 101 chill hours · 505 mm rain

What grows in Motherwell, South Africa →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Humansdorp (98), Kruisfontein (97)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Groot-Brakrivier (99), Mossel Bay (99)

  3. 3

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Liverpool (87), Cessnock (87)

  4. 4

    🇦🇷Santa Fe, Argentina

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rafaela (80), Sunchales (80)

  5. 5

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mpumalanga (85), Ulundi (83)

  6. 6

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Toowoomba (78), Capalaba (75)

  7. 7

    🇦🇷Cordoba, Argentina

    3,100 sq mi8,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Morteros (80), San Francisco (79)

  8. 8

    🇦🇷Entre Rios, Argentina

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Diamante (80), Victoria (79)

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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    🇿🇦HumansdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

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

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

    98%match
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    🇿🇦GeorgeWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 85 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 85 chill hours · 598 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, potato

    97%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 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦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 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, avocado, potato

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇿🇦BredasdorpWestern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, maize (corn)

    93%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 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, maize (corn)

    91%match
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    🇦🇺LiverpoolNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 274 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 274 chill hours · 813 mm rain

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

    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 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, sorghum, maize (corn)

    86%match
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    🇦🇺MaitlandNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 277 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 277 chill hours · 857 mm rain

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

    85%match
  10. 10

    🇿🇦GrahamstownEastern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    84%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 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, potato

    84%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 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), peanut, sorghum

    83%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 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, maize (corn), sorghum

    82%match
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    🇦🇺TareeNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 207 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 207 chill hours · 1,105 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), potato, soybean

    80%match
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    🇦🇷RafaelaSanta Fe, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 390 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 390 chill hours · 928 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, maize (corn), peanut

    80%match
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    🇦🇷MorterosCordoba, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 400 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 400 chill hours · 853 mm rain

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

    80%match
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    🇿🇦PietermaritzburgKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 341 chill hours · 752 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), olive, peanut

    80%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 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), sorghum, cotton

    80%match
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    🇿🇦KwaDukuzaKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, cotton, peanut

    80%match
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    🇦🇷VeraSanta Fe, Argentina

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 148 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 148 chill hours · 935 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, cotton, sorghum

    79%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.