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Land with a climate like Sambava

🇲🇬Sambava, Sava, Madagascar

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sambava are Mananara, Madagascar (99% match), Moroni and Soanierana Ivongo. About 509,000 sq mi of land in 47 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sabah, Malaysia and North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sambava are Mananara, Madagascar (99% match), Moroni and Soanierana Ivongo. About 1.3 million km² of land in 47 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sabah, Malaysia and North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 95 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,417 mm rain

What grows in Sambava →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bungku (83), Luwuk (81)

  2. 2

    🇲🇾Sabah, Malaysia

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ranau (84), Bandar Nabawan (84)

  3. 3

    🇳🇮North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Siuna (88), Puerto Cabezas (84)

  4. 4

    🇮🇩Maluku, Indonesia

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dobo (83), Namrole (76)

  5. 5

    🇳🇮South Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nueva Guinea (90), Rama (86)

  6. 6

    🇲🇬Analanjirofo, Madagascar

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mananara (99), Soanierana Ivongo (97)

  7. 7

    🇮🇩South Sulawesi, Indonesia

    6,900 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Palopo (79), Masamba (79)

  8. 8

    🇲🇬Sava, Madagascar

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iharan̈a (91)

  9. 9

    🇲🇬Atsinanana, Madagascar

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mahanoro (94), Toamasina (93)

  10. 10

    🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Itacaré (86), Ilhéus (86)

  11. 11

    🇬🇹Petén, Guatemala

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Poptún (90), Flores (77)

  12. 12

    🇲🇽Tabasco, Mexico

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Teapa (84), Huimanguillo (82)

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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    🇲🇬MananaraAnalanjirofo, Madagascar

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 101 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,573 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇰🇲MoroniGrande Comore, Comoros

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,290 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇲🇬Soanierana IvongoAnalanjirofo, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 129 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,289 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇲🇬MahanoroAtsinanana, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 105 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,665 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇻🇺Port-VilaShefa, Vanuatu

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 95 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,401 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇲🇬MaroantsetraAnalanjirofo, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 143 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,640 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇲🇬ToamasinaAtsinanana, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 99 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,511 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    93%match
  8. 8

    🇲🇬Fenoarivo AtsinananaAnalanjirofo, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 105 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,663 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato

    93%match
  9. 9

    🇲🇬AmpasimanolotraAtsinanana, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 113 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,859 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    93%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇬VatomandryAtsinanana, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 114 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,892 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    92%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇹Puerto Barrios↻Seasons flipped. Izabal Department, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 104 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,633 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    92%match
  12. 12

    🇲🇬FarafanganaAtsimo-Atsinanana, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 92 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,333 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato, coffee (arabica)

    92%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇺Baracoa↻Seasons flipped. Guantánamo Province, Cuba

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 105 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,659 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    91%match
  14. 14

    🇩🇲Roseau↻Seasons flipped. Saint George Parish, Dominica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,991 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    91%match
  15. 15

    🇲🇬Iharan̈aSava, Madagascar

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,488 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    91%match
  16. 16

    🇵🇷San Juan↻Seasons flipped. Puerto Rico

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,668 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    91%match
  17. 17

    🇰🇲FomboniMohéli, Comoros

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,749 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    91%match
  18. 18

    🇲🇶Fort-de-France↻Seasons flipped. Martinique, Martinique

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,018 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    91%match
  19. 19

    🇲🇬Nosy VarikaVatovavy Region, Madagascar

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 108 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,735 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: potato, barley

    90%match
  20. 20

    🇩🇴Nagua↻Seasons flipped. María Trinidad Sánchez, Dominican Republic

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,782 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    90%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.