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Land with a climate like Ouarzazate

🇲🇦Ouarzazate, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ouarzazate are Goulmima, Morocco (99% match), Errachidia and Bouarfa. About 105,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, El Bayadh, Algeria and Oriental, Morocco.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ouarzazate are Goulmima, Morocco (99% match), Errachidia and Bouarfa. About 272,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, El Bayadh, Algeria and Oriental, Morocco.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 677 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 677 chill hours · 136 mm rain

What grows in Ouarzazate →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇲🇦Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Goulmima (99), Errachidia (98)

  2. 2

    🇩🇿El Bayadh, Algeria

    6,800 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Brezina (92), El Abiodh Sidi Cheikh (91)

  3. 3

    🇲🇦Oriental, Morocco

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bouarfa (96)

  4. 4

    🇩🇿Naama, Algeria

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aïn Sefra (85), Mecheria (75)

  5. 5

    🇩🇿Béchar, Algeria

    3,600 sq mi9,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Béchar (79)

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    🇲🇦Souss-Massa, Morocco

    2,100 sq mi5,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tata (82), Aoulouz (79)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Nevada, United States

    1,700 sq mi4,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mesquite (85), Summerlin South (80)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸California, United States

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Palm Springs (80), Desert Hot Springs (78)

  9. 9

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

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

    For example Broken Hill (69)

  10. 10

    🇮🇷Semnan, Iran

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Semnan (71), Garmsār (61)

  11. 11

    🇮🇷Kerman, Iran

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rāvar (70), Kerman (63)

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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    🇲🇦GoulmimaDrâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 730 chill hours · 5.2 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 730 chill hours · 132 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇲🇦ErrachidiaDrâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 708 chill hours · 4.5 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 708 chill hours · 115 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit

    98%match
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    🇲🇦BouarfaOriental, Morocco

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 976 chill hours · 6.6 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 976 chill hours · 167 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, walnut, kiwifruit

    96%match
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    🇩🇿BrezinaEl Bayadh, Algeria

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 5.1 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 130 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, walnut, kiwifruit

    92%match
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    🇩🇿El Abiodh Sidi CheikhEl Bayadh, Algeria

    Zone 8b · 264 frost-free days · 940 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 8b · 264 frost-free days · 940 chill hours · 122 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, walnut, kiwifruit

    91%match
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    🇲🇦ArfoudDrâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    Zone 9a · 302 frost-free days · 492 chill hours · 3.9 in rainZone 9a · 302 frost-free days · 492 chill hours · 98 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 28 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇲🇦TinghirDrâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 6.0 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 153 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, pistachio, kiwifruit

    89%match
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    🇺🇸MesquiteNevada, United States

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 882 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 882 chill hours · 126 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    85%match
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    🇩🇿Aïn SefraNaama, Algeria

    Zone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,290 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,290 chill hours · 151 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, walnut, kiwifruit

    85%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇦Kelaat MgounaDrâa-Tafilalet, Morocco

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,228 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,228 chill hours · 135 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, wine grapes, pistachio

    84%match
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    🇲🇦TataSouss-Massa, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 271 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 271 chill hours · 147 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple

    82%match
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    🇩🇿LaghouatAlgeria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 891 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 891 chill hours · 151 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, pistachio, kiwifruit

    80%match
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    🇩🇿BécharAlgeria

    Zone 8b · 291 frost-free days · 562 chill hours · 2.8 in rainZone 8b · 291 frost-free days · 562 chill hours · 70 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 28 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇵🇰MastungBalochistan, Pakistan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 942 chill hours · 6.6 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 942 chill hours · 168 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    79%match
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    🇲🇦AoulouzSouss-Massa, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 348 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 9b · 337 frost-free days · 348 chill hours · 256 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, tea, avocado

    79%match
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    🇺🇸Cathedral CityCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 372 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 372 chill hours · 149 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 28 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇩🇿BerrianeGhardaia, Algeria

    Zone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 540 chill hours · 3.1 in rainZone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 540 chill hours · 79 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 28 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇺🇸Boulder CityNevada, United States

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 687 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 687 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    77%match
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    🇺🇸Twentynine PalmsCalifornia, United States

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 777 chill hours · 4.3 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 777 chill hours · 109 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇱🇾NālūtNalut, Libya

    Zone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 394 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 394 chill hours · 126 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, apple

    76%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.