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Land with a climate like Shalkar

🇰🇿Shalkar, Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shalkar are Atyrau, Kazakhstan (98% match), Znamensk and Kharabali. About 265,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia and Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shalkar are Atyrau, Kazakhstan (98% match), Znamensk and Kharabali. About 685,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia and Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan.

Your growing climate

Zone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,400 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 6a · 171 frost-free days · 3,400 chill hours · 198 mm rain

What grows in Shalkar →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇷🇺Volgograd Oblast, Russia

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Leninsk (87), Volzhsky (86)

  2. 2

    🇷🇺Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Znamensk (94), Kharabali (94)

  3. 3

    🇰🇿Atyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Balykshi (99), Atyrau (98)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Kalmykiya Republic, Russia

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elista (86)

  5. 5

    🇰🇿Zhambyl, Kazakhstan

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shu (79), Merke (76)

  6. 6

    🇰🇿Aktobe, Kazakhstan

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Embi (84), Shalqar (79)

  7. 7

    🇰🇬Talas Region, Kyrgyzstan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Talas (54)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Xinjiang, China

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huocheng (80), Ghulja (79)

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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    🇰🇿AtyrauAtyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan

    Zone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 6.2 in rainZone 6a · 183 frost-free days · 3,297 chill hours · 158 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇷🇺ZnamenskAstrakhan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 169 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 6a · 169 frost-free days · 3,513 chill hours · 291 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇷🇺KharabaliAstrakhan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,352 chill hours · 8.6 in rainZone 6b · 180 frost-free days · 3,352 chill hours · 218 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    94%match
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    🇰🇿QulsaryAtyrau Oblisi, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5b · 176 frost-free days · 3,393 chill hours · 6.0 in rainZone 5b · 176 frost-free days · 3,393 chill hours · 152 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇷🇺AkhtubinskAstrakhan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,415 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 6a · 173 frost-free days · 3,415 chill hours · 265 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇷🇺AstrakhanAstrakhan Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,171 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 3,171 chill hours · 197 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, wine grapes

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇷🇺ElistaKalmykiya Republic, Russia

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,209 chill hours · 337 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, saffron

    86%match
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    🇰🇿EmbiAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,720 chill hours · 8.8 in rainZone 5a · 160 frost-free days · 3,720 chill hours · 223 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇷🇺PallasovkaVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,678 chill hours · 294 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
  10. 10

    🇷🇺VolgogradVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 176 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6a · 176 frost-free days · 3,518 chill hours · 366 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇷🇺Kotel’nikovoVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,348 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,348 chill hours · 367 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, wine grapes

    83%match
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    🇷🇺KamyshinVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 6a · 172 frost-free days · 3,620 chill hours · 342 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇷🇺NovouzenskSaratov Oblast, Russia

    Zone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,672 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 5b · 160 frost-free days · 3,672 chill hours · 300 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇷🇺SurovikinoVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,438 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,438 chill hours · 379 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇷🇺Kalach-na-DonuVolgograd Oblast, Russia

    Zone 6b · 174 frost-free days · 3,488 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 174 frost-free days · 3,488 chill hours · 355 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇨🇳HuochengXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 171 frost-free days · 3,251 chill hours · 9.4 in rainZone 5a · 171 frost-free days · 3,251 chill hours · 238 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇰🇿ShuZhambyl, Kazakhstan

    Zone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,001 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 6a · 181 frost-free days · 3,001 chill hours · 314 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇰🇿ShalqarAktobe, Kazakhstan

    Zone 4b · 158 frost-free days · 3,690 chill hours · 7.0 in rainZone 4b · 158 frost-free days · 3,690 chill hours · 178 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇰🇿UshtobeZhetysu Region, Kazakhstan

    Zone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 5a · 155 frost-free days · 3,414 chill hours · 281 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇨🇳QarasuXinjiang, China

    Zone 5a · 175 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 5a · 175 frost-free days · 3,206 chill hours · 227 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    77%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.