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Land with a climate like Mzimba

🇲🇼Mzimba, Northern Region, Malawi

The towns with the closest growing climate to Mzimba are Mponela, Malawi (99% match), Lilongwe and Chitipa. About 235,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Province, Zambia, Northern Province, Zambia and Muchinga, Zambia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Mzimba are Mponela, Malawi (99% match), Lilongwe and Chitipa. About 610,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Province, Zambia, Northern Province, Zambia and Muchinga, Zambia.

Your growing climate

Zone 11a · No frost · 15 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 15 chill hours · 904 mm rain

What grows in Mzimba →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇲Central Province, Zambia

    20k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Serenje (94), Mkushi (92)

  2. 2

    🇿🇲Northern Province, Zambia

    16k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kasama (85), Luwingu (84)

  3. 3

    🇿🇲Muchinga, Zambia

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mpika (92), Chinsali (91)

  4. 4

    🇲🇼Central Region, Malawi

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mponela (99), Lilongwe (99)

  5. 5

    🇨🇩Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mokambo (86), Kipushi (80)

  6. 6

    🇹🇿Mbeya, Tanzania

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matundasi (89), Utengule (88)

  7. 7

    🇲🇼Northern Region, Malawi

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chitipa (97), Rumphi (95)

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    🇹🇿Singida, Tanzania

    7,100 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mungaa (85), Ilongero (85)

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    🇿🇼Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bindura (84), Mvurwi (83)

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    🇿🇼Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Karoi (86), Chinhoyi (80)

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    🇹🇿Rukwa, Tanzania

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chala (91), Sumbawanga (90)

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    🇲🇿Niassa Province, Mozambique

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lichinga (96)

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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    🇲🇼MponelaCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 10b · No frost · 24 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 24 chill hours · 848 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇲🇼LilongweCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 10b · No frost · 18 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 18 chill hours · 880 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇲🇼ChitipaNorthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,075 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, cassava

    97%match
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    🇲🇼MchinjiCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 10b · No frost · 30 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 30 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, cassava

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇲🇼KasunguCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 836 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane

    97%match
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    🇲🇿LichingaNiassa Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 1,067 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    96%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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane

    95%match
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    🇲🇿UlonguéTete, Mozambique

    Zone 10b · No frost · 22 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 22 chill hours · 1,005 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    95%match
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    🇿🇲SerenjeCentral Province, Zambia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 72 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 72 chill hours · 1,052 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇹🇿MakumbakoNjombe, Tanzania

    Zone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 966 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇿🇲KateteEastern Province, Zambia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 1,087 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, cassava

    93%match
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    🇿🇲MpikaMuchinga, Zambia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 8 chill hours · 1,033 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇿🇲MkushiCentral Province, Zambia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 133 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 133 chill hours · 983 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    92%match
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    🇿🇲ChinsaliMuchinga, Zambia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,084 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane

    91%match
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    🇹🇿MbingaRuvuma, Tanzania

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 1,199 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    91%match
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    🇿🇲IsokaMuchinga, Zambia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,038 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane

    91%match
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    🇹🇿ChalaRukwa, Tanzania

    Zone 10b · No frost · 22 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 22 chill hours · 883 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇹🇿IringaTanzania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 611 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇹🇿SumbawangaRukwa, Tanzania

    Zone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 79 chill hours · 874 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇿🇲Kapiri MposhiCentral Province, Zambia

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 128 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 128 chill hours · 976 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    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.