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Land with a climate like Sinjār

🇮🇶Sinjār, Nineveh, Iraq

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sinjār are Mosul, Iraq (97% match), Kirkuk and Jamjamāl. About 43,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nineveh, Iraq, Salah ad Din, Iraq and Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sinjār are Mosul, Iraq (97% match), Kirkuk and Jamjamāl. About 112,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nineveh, Iraq, Salah ad Din, Iraq and Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 674 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 674 chill hours · 393 mm rain

What grows in Sinjār →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇶Nineveh, Iraq

    7,200 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mosul (97), Tallkayf (94)

  2. 2

    🇮🇶Salah ad Din, Iraq

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ash Sharqāt (85), Balad (65)

  3. 3

    🇮🇶Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

    3,700 sq mi9,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jamjamāl (94), Shūrash (94)

  4. 4

    🇸🇾Al-Hasakah, Syria

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qāmishlī (89), Al Mālikīyah (88)

  5. 5

    🇮🇷Ilam Province, Iran

    3,000 sq mi7,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Darreh Shahr (86), Ābdānān (86)

  6. 6

    🇸🇾Deir ez-Zor, Syria

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Mayādīn (74), Deir ez-Zor (73)

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    🇮🇷Khuzestan, Iran

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Īz̄eh (70), Andīmeshk (70)

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    🇮🇷Kermanshah Province, Iran

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

    For example Qaşr-e Shīrīn (94), Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (91)

  9. 9

    🇹🇷Şırnak, Turkey

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cizre (85), Silopi (83)

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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    🇮🇶MosulNineveh, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 576 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 576 chill hours · 447 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇮🇶KirkukIraq

    Zone 9a · 315 frost-free days · 418 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 315 frost-free days · 418 chill hours · 348 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇮🇶JamjamālSulaymaniyah, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 537 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇶DerbendîxanSulaymaniyah, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 612 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 612 chill hours · 577 mm rain

    Shares 10 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇮🇶ErbilIraq

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 797 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 797 chill hours · 534 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple

    93%match
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    🇮🇷Sarpol-e Z̄ahābKermanshah Province, Iran

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 603 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 603 chill hours · 463 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus

    91%match
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    🇮🇶KoysinceqErbil, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 869 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 869 chill hours · 674 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple

    90%match
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    🇸🇾Al QāmishlīAl-Hasakah, Syria

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 880 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 880 chill hours · 407 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple, citrus

    89%match
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    🇮🇶KelarSulaymaniyah, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 319 frost-free days · 365 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9a · 319 frost-free days · 365 chill hours · 336 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇮🇶SulaymaniyahIraq

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 994 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 994 chill hours · 712 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple

    87%match
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    🇮🇷PoldokhtarLorestan Province, Iran

    Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 556 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 556 chill hours · 432 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    86%match
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    🇮🇶Ash SharqātSalah ad Din, Iraq

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 265 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 265 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇹🇷CizreŞırnak, Turkey

    Zone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 724 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 724 chill hours · 625 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple

    85%match
  14. 14

    🇮🇶DihokDuhok, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 913 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 913 chill hours · 745 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple, olive

    84%match
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    🇮🇶ZaxoDuhok, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 885 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 885 chill hours · 749 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple, olive

    80%match
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    🇮🇶‘AnahAnbar, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 649 chill hours · 6.4 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 649 chill hours · 162 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇮🇷DehlorānIlam Province, Iran

    Zone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 310 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 310 chill hours · 328 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇮🇶MandalīDiyala, Iraq

    Zone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 321 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9a · 321 frost-free days · 321 chill hours · 271 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops

    75%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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    74%match
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    🇮🇶QeładizêSulaymaniyah, Iraq

    Zone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,076 chill hours · 709 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, apple

    74%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.