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Land with a climate like Shangri-La

🇨🇳Shangri-La, Yunnan, China

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shangri-La are Nyingchi, China (78% match), Barkam and Kangding. About 24,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Yunnan, China, Sikkim, India and Punakha, Bhutan.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shangri-La are Nyingchi, China (78% match), Barkam and Kangding. About 63,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Yunnan, China, Sikkim, India and Punakha, Bhutan.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,059 chill hours · 670 mm rain

What grows in Shangri-La →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Yunnan, China

    7,900 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinyingpan (75), Shangpa (67)

  2. 2

    🇮🇳Sikkim, India

    1,100 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

  3. 3

    🇧🇹Punakha, Bhutan

    800 sq mi2,100 km² matching 80% or better

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Sichuan, China

    800 sq mi2,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Barkam (78), Kangding (78)

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    🇮🇳Assam, India

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇧🇹Thimphu District, Bhutan

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇮🇳Arunachal Pradesh, India

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇨🇳Jiangsu, China

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Daocheng (60)

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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    🇨🇳NyingchiTibet, China

    Zone 7b · 185 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 7b · 185 frost-free days · 2,682 chill hours · 625 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, lavender, apple

    78%match
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    🇨🇳BarkamSichuan, China

    Zone 7a · 163 frost-free days · 2,969 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 7a · 163 frost-free days · 2,969 chill hours · 710 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, lavender, hemp

    78%match
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    🇨🇳KangdingSichuan, China

    Zone 7a · 155 frost-free days · 3,273 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 7a · 155 frost-free days · 3,273 chill hours · 794 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇨🇳XinyingpanYunnan, China

    Zone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8a · 204 frost-free days · 2,143 chill hours · 779 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, apple, lavender

    75%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇳ShangpaYunnan, China

    Zone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 2,599 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8a · 196 frost-free days · 2,599 chill hours · 932 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, lavender

    67%match
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    🇨🇳DiangaGansu, China

    Zone 6a · 144 frost-free days · 3,385 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 6a · 144 frost-free days · 3,385 chill hours · 636 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, hemp

    65%match
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    🇨🇳Tanchang ChengguanzhenGansu, China

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,282 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 3,282 chill hours · 602 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, hemp

    62%match
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    🇨🇳QamdoTibet, China

    Zone 7a · 154 frost-free days · 2,849 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 7a · 154 frost-free days · 2,849 chill hours · 530 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry

    61%match
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    🇨🇳DaochengJiangsu, China

    Zone 6a · 126 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 6a · 126 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 654 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 7 great-fit crops

    60%match
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    🇨🇳MayingGansu, China

    Zone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 3,625 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 6b · 154 frost-free days · 3,625 chill hours · 696 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, hemp

    59%match
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    🇨🇳YongningYunnan, China

    Zone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 1,938 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 1,938 chill hours · 754 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, cherry, apple

    59%match
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    🇨🇳TangeGansu, China

    Zone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6a · 165 frost-free days · 3,451 chill hours · 577 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, hemp

    58%match
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    🇨🇳Lintan ChengguanzhenGansu, China

    Zone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,571 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 5b · 125 frost-free days · 3,571 chill hours · 590 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops

    57%match
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    🇨🇳ZhangjiachuanGansu, China

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,293 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,293 chill hours · 585 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, hemp

    57%match
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    🇨🇳GengqingSichuan, China

    Zone 6a · 120 frost-free days · 3,514 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 6a · 120 frost-free days · 3,514 chill hours · 601 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 7 great-fit crops

    56%match
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    🇨🇳ZhongzhaiGansu, China

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,938 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,938 chill hours · 682 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, lavender

    54%match
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    🇨🇳LuomenGansu, China

    Zone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,197 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 6b · 173 frost-free days · 3,197 chill hours · 581 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, cherry, sunflower

    53%match
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    🇵🇪Huancavelica↻Seasons flipped. Peru

    Zone 9a · 28 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 28 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 791 mm rain

    Shares 2 of your 7 great-fit crops

    51%match
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    🇨🇳YunshanGansu, China

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 3,050 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 3,050 chill hours · 595 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, lavender, wine grapes

    49%match
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    🇨🇳LonglinGansu, China

    Zone 7a · 194 frost-free days · 2,980 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7a · 194 frost-free days · 2,980 chill hours · 608 mm rain

    Shares 7 of your 7 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, lavender, wine grapes

    48%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.