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Land with a climate like Port Alfred

🇿🇦Port Alfred, Eastern Cape, South Africa

The towns with the closest growing climate to Port Alfred are Gqeberha, South Africa (99% match), East London and Humansdorp. About 50,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Port Alfred are Gqeberha, South Africa (99% match), East London and Humansdorp. About 128,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Eastern Cape, South Africa and New South Wales, Australia.

Your growing climate

Zone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 3 chill hours · 679 mm rain

What grows in Port Alfred →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Eshowe (93), Ntuzuma (93)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Eastern Cape, South Africa

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeffreys Bay (99), Gqeberha (99)

  3. 3

    🇦🇺New South Wales, Australia

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newcastle (85), Sydney (84)

  4. 4

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Plettenberg Bay (97), Mossel Bay (95)

  5. 5

    🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Barra do Choça (82), Planalto (81)

  6. 6

    🇦🇺Queensland, Australia

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Capalaba (81), Logan City (73)

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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    🇿🇦GqeberhaEastern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 70 chill hours · 586 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, garlic, apple

    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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean, macadamia

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇿🇦HumansdorpEastern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, garlic

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇿🇦KnysnaWestern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 118 chill hours · 675 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, blueberry

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇿🇦EshoweKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 11 chill hours · 1,068 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peanut, macadamia

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇿🇦GeorgeWestern Cape, South Africa

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

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, apple, garlic

    93%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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean, macadamia

    93%match
  8. 8

    🇿🇦KwaDukuzaKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean, macadamia

    92%match
  9. 9

    🇿🇦ScottburghKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 953 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean, cassava

    87%match
  10. 10

    🇿🇦UlundiKwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 32 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean, rice

    87%match
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    🇦🇺NewcastleNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 61 chill hours · 1,096 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, peach, peanut

    85%match
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    🇦🇺SydneyNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 95 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, soybean, apple

    84%match
  13. 13

    🇦🇺WollongongNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · No frost · 77 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 77 chill hours · 1,212 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, soybean, apple

    83%match
  14. 14

    🇦🇺Central CoastNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 137 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 137 chill hours · 1,202 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, soybean, apple

    83%match
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    🇿🇦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 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peanut, cassava

    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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peanut, garlic

    82%match
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    🇧🇷Barra do ChoçaBahia, Brazil

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 709 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, soybean

    82%match
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    🇦🇺Batemans BayNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 229 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 229 chill hours · 1,028 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, peach, pear

    82%match
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    🇦🇺CapalabaQueensland, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 73 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 73 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, peanut, macadamia

    81%match
  20. 20

    🇦🇺Port MacquarieNew South Wales, Australia

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 86 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 86 chill hours · 1,437 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, macadamia, peanut

    80%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.