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Land with a climate like Ntcheu

🇲🇼Ntcheu, Central Region, Malawi

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ntcheu are Blantyre, Malawi (97% match), Mandimba and Zomba. About 73,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Southern Region, Malawi, Niassa Province, Mozambique and Manica, Mozambique.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ntcheu are Blantyre, Malawi (97% match), Mandimba and Zomba. About 190,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Southern Region, Malawi, Niassa Province, Mozambique and Manica, Mozambique.

Your growing climate

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

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Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇲🇼Southern Region, Malawi

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Blantyre (97), Zomba (95)

  2. 2

    🇲🇿Niassa Province, Mozambique

    9,900 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mandimba (95), Lichinga (81)

  3. 3

    🇲🇿Manica, Mozambique

    7,900 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Manica (87), Messica (85)

  4. 4

    🇲🇬Alaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Imerimandroso (80), Amparafaravola (79)

  5. 5

    🇲🇼Central Region, Malawi

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mchinji (69), Lilongwe (67)

  6. 6

    🇲🇿Nampula, Mozambique

    3,800 sq mi9,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iapala (86), Ribáuè (77)

  7. 7

    🇿🇼Manicaland, Zimbabwe

    2,800 sq mi7,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mutare (83), Chipinge (73)

  8. 8

    🇲🇬Upper Matsiatra, Madagascar

    2,500 sq mi6,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ikalamavony (84), Ambalavao (82)

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    🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

    2,000 sq mi5,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Corinto (78), Pedro Leopoldo (78)

  10. 10

    🇿🇲Eastern Province, Zambia

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Katete (74), Sinda (72)

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    🇲🇼Northern Region, Malawi

    1,200 sq mi3,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rumphi (81), Mzimba (71)

  12. 12

    🇲🇬Analamanga, Madagascar

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ankazobe (69), Ivato (65)

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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    🇲🇼BlantyreSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇲🇿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 22 great-fit crops

    95%match
  3. 3

    🇲🇼ZombaSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,136 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇲🇼MangochiSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 860 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    87%match
  5. 5

    🇲🇼Monkey BaySouthern Region, Malawi

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

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    86%match
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    🇲🇿IapalaNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,154 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    86%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 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇲🇿CatandicaManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 1,243 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇲🇬IkalamavonyUpper Matsiatra, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 1,150 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
  10. 10

    🇿🇼MutareManicaland, Zimbabwe

    Zone 10b · No frost · 117 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 117 chill hours · 843 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, table and raisin grapes, garlic

    83%match
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    🇲🇿ChimoioManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,098 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇲🇬AmbalavaoUpper Matsiatra, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 1,043 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    82%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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    81%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 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇲🇬ImerimandrosoAlaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,208 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇧🇷CaetitéBahia, Brazil

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    80%match
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    🇲🇬BealananaSofia, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 1,498 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇹🇿Newala KisimaniMtwara, Tanzania

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

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇲🇬AmbatondrazakaAlaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 1,102 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    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.