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Land with a climate like Pinetown

🇿🇦Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Pinetown are Mandeni, South Africa (99% match), East London and Port Shepstone. About 189,000 sq mi of land in 13 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in São Paulo, Brazil, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Minas Gerais, Brazil.The towns with the closest growing climate to Pinetown are Mandeni, South Africa (99% match), East London and Port Shepstone. About 489,000 km² of land in 13 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in São Paulo, Brazil, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Pinetown →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

    39k sq mi101k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iperó (93), Capela do Alto (92)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Eshowe (99), Mandeni (99)

  3. 3

    🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Monte Sião (86), Ouro Fino (84)

  4. 4

    🇧🇷Paraná, Brazil

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wenceslau Braz (87), Sengés (86)

  5. 5

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Capalaba (87), Narangba (84)

  6. 6

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example East London (99), Gonubie (98)

  7. 7

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Grafton (82), Coffs Harbour (81)

  8. 8

    🇦🇷Corrientes, Argentina

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saladas (82), San Lorenzo (81)

  9. 9

    🇦🇷Santa Fe, Argentina

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Reconquista (80), Villa Ocampo (80)

  10. 10

    🇦🇷Chaco, Argentina

    3,700 sq mi9,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Barranqueras (78), Resistencia (78)

  11. 11

    🇲🇬Atsimo-Atsinanana, Madagascar

    3,000 sq mi7,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vondrozo (77)

  12. 12

    🇨🇳Fujian, China

    1,900 sq mi4,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longyan (77), Ximeicun (72)

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

  1. 1

    🇿🇦MandeniKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 947 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cassava, sugarcane

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇿🇦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 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇿🇦Port ShepstoneKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,037 mm rain

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

    96%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦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 22 great-fit crops

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇿🇦Richards BayKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,037 mm rain

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

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇿🇦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 22 great-fit crops

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇧🇷SorocabaSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 1,196 mm rain

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

    92%match
  8. 8

    🇧🇷TatuíSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 1,158 mm rain

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

    91%match
  9. 9

    🇿🇦MtubatubaKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

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

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇧🇷ItapetiningaSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 1,172 mm rain

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

    90%match
  11. 11

    🇧🇷Monte MorSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,170 mm rain

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

    90%match
  12. 12

    🇧🇷ConchasSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,168 mm rain

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

    89%match
  13. 13

    🇧🇷CampinasSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,256 mm rain

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

    89%match
  14. 14

    🇧🇷São José dos CamposSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 2 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

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

    88%match
  15. 15

    🇿🇦NcotshaneKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 16 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 16 chill hours · 670 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: mango

    88%match
  16. 16

    🇧🇷Vargem AltaEspírito Santo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,180 mm rain

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

    88%match
  17. 17

    🇧🇷São PauloBrazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,380 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, banana

    88%match
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    🇧🇷Campo Limpo PaulistaSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 10 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 10 chill hours · 1,267 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇧🇷Bragança PaulistaSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 10b · No frost · 29 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 29 chill hours · 1,305 mm rain

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

    88%match
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    🇧🇷BotucatuSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 13 chill hours · 1,306 mm rain

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

    87%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.