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Land with a climate like Sifra

🇪🇹Sifra, Āfar, Ethiopia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sifra are Dire Dawa, Ethiopia (91% match), Āwash and Af’abet. About 27,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Āfar, Ethiopia, Amhara, Ethiopia and Oromiya, Ethiopia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sifra are Dire Dawa, Ethiopia (91% match), Āwash and Af’abet. About 71,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Āfar, Ethiopia, Amhara, Ethiopia and Oromiya, Ethiopia.

Your growing climate

Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 514 mm rain

What grows in Sifra →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇪🇹Āfar, Ethiopia

    7,000 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Āwash (86), Mīlē (67)

  2. 2

    🇪🇹Amhara, Ethiopia

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Abomsa (83), Robit (71)

  3. 3

    🇪🇹Oromiya, Ethiopia

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Metahāra (87), Mī’ēso (70)

  4. 4

    🇪🇷Anseba, Eritrea

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Keren (59)

  5. 5

    🇪🇷Debub, Eritrea

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Af’abet (85)

  6. 6

    🇸🇴Awdal, Somalia

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ruqi (70)

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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    🇪🇹Dire DawaEthiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 477 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cassava, sugarcane

    91%match
  2. 2

    🇪🇹ĀwashĀfar, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 504 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇪🇷Af’abetDebub, Eritrea

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 375 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cassava, sugarcane

    85%match
  4. 4

    🇪🇹ĀrabīSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 310 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, banana, cassava

    84%match
  5. 5

    🇪🇹AbomsaAmhara, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 626 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    83%match
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    🇪🇹AlamataTigray, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 773 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, rice

    79%match
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    🇪🇹Mī’ēsoOromiya, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 653 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: wheat, soybean, canola (rapeseed)

    70%match
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    🇸🇴RuqiAwdal, Somalia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 327 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, banana, cassava

    70%match
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    🇪🇹MīlēĀfar, Ethiopia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.7 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 247 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, rice, banana

    67%match
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    🇪🇹MehoniĀfar, Ethiopia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 718 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    66%match
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    🇪🇹KemisēAmhara, Ethiopia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 817 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    66%match
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    🇪🇹Āt’ayeAmhara, Ethiopia

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 788 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    60%match
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    🇪🇷KerenAnseba, Eritrea

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 402 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cassava, sugarcane

    59%match
  14. 14

    🇾🇪TaizTa‘izz, Yemen

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 422 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: wheat, rice, tea

    58%match
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    🇩🇯Ali SabihAli Sabieh, Djibouti

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.4 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 162 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cassava, sugarcane

    51%match
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    🇲🇬Jafaro↻Seasons flipped. Androy, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 459 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, sugarcane, rice

    51%match
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    🇪🇹Degeh BurSomali, Ethiopia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 395 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, soybean, cassava

    49%match
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    🇲🇬Beloha↻Seasons flipped. Androy, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 401 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice, soybean

    48%match
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    🇰🇪KakumaTurkana County, Kenya

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 370 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, rice, cassava

    48%match
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    🇪🇹Ābīy ĀdīTigray, Ethiopia

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 653 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 12 great-fit crops · Also great there: soybean, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    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.