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Land with a climate like Rukban

🇯🇴Rukban, Mafraq, Jordan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rukban are Ar Ruţbah, Iraq (97% match), Tadmur and Al Qaryatayn. About 112,000 sq mi of land in 10 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Homs, Syria and Mafraq, Jordan.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rukban are Ar Ruţbah, Iraq (97% match), Tadmur and Al Qaryatayn. About 290,000 km² of land in 10 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Anbar, Iraq, Homs, Syria and Mafraq, Jordan.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 3.8 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 96 mm rain

What grows in Rukban →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇮🇶Anbar, Iraq

    9,000 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ar Ruţbah (97), Al Qā’im (75)

  2. 2

    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tadmur (96), Al Qaryatayn (94)

  3. 3

    🇯🇴Mafraq, Jordan

    7,000 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mafraq (79)

  4. 4

    🇸🇦Al Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qurayyat (80), Ţubarjal (61)

  5. 5

    🇸🇦Northern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ţurayf (94), Turaif (94)

  6. 6

    🇸🇾Deir ez-Zor, Syria

    6,400 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Subaykhān (80), Al Mayādīn (79)

  7. 7

    🇸🇾Raqqa, Syria

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al-Tabqa (86), Ar Raqqah (84)

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    🇮🇷Isfahan, Iran

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ardestān (89), Kāshān (83)

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    🇯🇴Ma’an, Jordan

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ma'an (89), Qīr Moāv (68)

  10. 10

    🇯🇴Zarqa, Jordan

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Az̧ Z̧ulayl (83), Zarqa (77)

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    🇮🇷Razavi Khorasan, Iran

    1,400 sq mi3,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarakhs (80), Tāybād (76)

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    🇹🇲Ahal, Turkmenistan

    1,200 sq mi3,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarahs (80), Tejen (75)

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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    🇮🇶Ar RuţbahAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 842 chill hours · 4.6 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 842 chill hours · 118 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 31 great-fit crops

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇸🇾TadmurHoms, Syria

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 863 chill hours · 4.2 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 863 chill hours · 107 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    96%match
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    🇸🇾Al QaryataynHoms, Syria

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 123 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇸🇦ŢurayfNorthern Borders Region, Saudi Arabia

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 787 chill hours · 4.4 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 787 chill hours · 113 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 31 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸BakersfieldCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    90%match
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    🇯🇴Ma'anMa’an, Jordan

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 963 chill hours · 2.7 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 963 chill hours · 68 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, wine grapes

    89%match
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    🇮🇷ArdestānIsfahan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 127 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 31 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇸🇾Al-TabqaRaqqa, Syria

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 831 chill hours · 6.2 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 831 chill hours · 157 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    86%match
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    🇸🇾JayrūdRif-dimashq, Syria

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 6.5 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 164 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    86%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇾Ar RaqqahRaqqa, Syria

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 147 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 31 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇮🇷KāshānIsfahan, Iran

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 919 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 919 chill hours · 184 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 31 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇮🇷SarakhsRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,213 chill hours · 7.3 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,213 chill hours · 185 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 31 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇸🇦QurayyatAl Jawf Region, Saudi Arabia

    Zone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 1.8 in rainZone 9a · 297 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 45 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    80%match
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    🇸🇾Al MayādīnDeir ez-Zor, Syria

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 743 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 743 chill hours · 135 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 31 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇸🇾Deir ez-ZorSyria

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 825 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 825 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 31 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇮🇷NaţanzIsfahan, Iran

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,515 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,515 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    79%match
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    🇮🇷IsfahanIran

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,406 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,406 chill hours · 149 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    79%match
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    🇹🇲MaryTurkmenistan

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,499 chill hours · 5.8 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,499 chill hours · 147 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 31 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇸🇾DūmāRif-dimashq, Syria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,046 chill hours · 9.4 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,046 chill hours · 239 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 31 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tea

    78%match
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    🇦🇫ShīnḏanḏHerat, Afghanistan

    Zone 7b · 235 frost-free days · 1,548 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 7b · 235 frost-free days · 1,548 chill hours · 137 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 31 great-fit crops

    78%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.