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Land with a climate like Thimphu

🇧🇹Thimphu, Thimphu District, Bhutan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Thimphu are Jinding, China (90% match), Lijiang and Shunzhou. About 49,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Yunnan, China, Arunachal Pradesh, India and Sichuan, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Thimphu are Jinding, China (90% match), Lijiang and Shunzhou. About 126,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Yunnan, China, Arunachal Pradesh, India and Sichuan, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,577 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,577 chill hours · 1,087 mm rain

What grows in Thimphu →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Yunnan, China

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jiuhe (93), Huangshan (92)

  2. 2

    🇮🇳Arunachal Pradesh, India

    3,700 sq mi9,600 km² matching 80% or better

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Sichuan, China

    1,900 sq mi4,800 km² matching 80% or better

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Guizhou, China

    1,600 sq mi4,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weining (74), Liupanshui (64)

  5. 5

    🇮🇳Assam, India

    1,300 sq mi3,400 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇧🇹Tsirang District, Bhutan

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

  7. 7

    🇿🇦KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mooi River (72), Kokstad (67)

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    🇧🇹Thimphu District, Bhutan

    800 sq mi2,100 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇧🇹Punakha, Bhutan

    800 sq mi2,100 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇳🇵Bagmati Province, Nepal

    500 sq mi1,400 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇱🇸Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qacha’s Nek (65)

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    🇮🇳West Bengal, India

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇨🇳JindingYunnan, China

    Zone 8b · 238 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 8b · 238 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 885 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇨🇳LijiangYunnan, China

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,317 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,317 chill hours · 776 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    89%match
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    🇨🇳ShunzhouYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,195 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,195 chill hours · 760 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    88%match
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    🇨🇳YongbeiYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,174 chill hours · 758 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    87%match
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    🇨🇳ZibihuYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,173 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,173 chill hours · 831 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    87%match
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    🇨🇳JinhuaYunnan, China

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 823 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig, saffron

    86%match
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    🇨🇳Dali Old TownYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 1,059 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 1,059 chill hours · 811 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    85%match
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    🇨🇳DaxingYunnan, China

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,362 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,362 chill hours · 769 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    84%match
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    🇨🇳JudianYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,140 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 9a · 273 frost-free days · 1,140 chill hours · 879 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig, olive

    83%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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇨🇳MingguangYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,012 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,012 chill hours · 1,247 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, rice, sorghum

    78%match
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    🇨🇳XiazhuangYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 880 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 880 chill hours · 782 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig, saffron

    77%match
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    🇨🇳ZhaotongYunnan, China

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 868 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, fig

    76%match
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    🇨🇳WeiningGuizhou, China

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,986 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,986 chill hours · 920 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇿🇦Mooi River↻Seasons flipped. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 300 frost-free days · 883 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9a · 300 frost-free days · 883 chill hours · 801 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, pecan

    72%match
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    🇨🇳QujingYunnan, China

    Zone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 948 chill hours · 939 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, fig, pecan

    71%match
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    🇱🇸Thaba-Tseka↻Seasons flipped. Lesotho

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,604 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,604 chill hours · 609 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    70%match
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    🇿🇦Belfast↻Seasons flipped. Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 964 chill hours · 31 in rainZone 9b · 300 frost-free days · 964 chill hours · 787 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, avocado, saffron

    69%match
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    🇿🇦Kokstad↻Seasons flipped. KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 299 frost-free days · 920 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 299 frost-free days · 920 chill hours · 746 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, saffron, pecan

    67%match
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    🇨🇳BaoshanYunnan, China

    Zone 9b · 312 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9b · 312 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 916 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, almond, avocado

    66%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.