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Land with a climate like Timbuktu

🇲🇱Timbuktu, Tombouctou, Mali

The towns with the closest growing climate to Timbuktu are Goundam, Mali (99% match), Nguigmi and Al Hasaheisa. About 760,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania, Gao, Mali and Assaba, Mauritania.The towns with the closest growing climate to Timbuktu are Goundam, Mali (99% match), Nguigmi and Al Hasaheisa. About 2.0 million km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania, Gao, Mali and Assaba, Mauritania.

Your growing climate

Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.6 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 143 mm rain

What grows in Timbuktu →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇲🇷Hodh Ech Chargi, Mauritania

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mbera (87), Néma (85)

  2. 2

    🇲🇱Gao, Mali

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bourem (95), Gao (94)

  3. 3

    🇲🇷Assaba, Mauritania

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kiffa (89), Guerou (88)

  4. 4

    🇳🇪Agadez, Niger

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Agadez (94), Alaghsas (94)

  5. 5

    🇳🇪Zinder Region, Niger

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tanout (87), Gouré (81)

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    🇲🇱Tombouctou, Mali

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Goundam (99)

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    🇳🇪Diffa, Niger

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nguigmi (97), Diffa (85)

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    🇲🇷Brakna, Mauritania

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Magṭa‘ Laḥjar (92), Aleg (87)

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    🇸🇩White Nile, Sudan

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al-Quṭaynah (94), Al Qiţena (94)

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    🇹🇩Wadi Fira, Chad

    8,100 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Biltine (90), Iriba (80)

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    🇸🇩North Kordofan, Sudan

    7,800 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bārah (92), El Obeid (79)

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    🇸🇩Al Jazirah, Sudan

    7,200 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Hilāliyya (96), Al Hasaheisa (95)

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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    🇲🇱GoundamTombouctou, Mali

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.5 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 165 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇳🇪NguigmiDiffa, Niger

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.3 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 161 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇸🇩Al HasaheisaAl Jazirah, Sudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.6 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 193 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    95%match
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    🇲🇱BouremGao, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.0 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 128 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇩KhartoumSudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 4.1 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 104 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    94%match
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    🇸🇩Al-QuṭaynahWhite Nile, Sudan

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.9 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 150 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    94%match
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    🇳🇪AgadezNiger

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 4.2 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 106 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed)

    94%match
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    🇲🇱GaoMali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 6.3 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 159 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    94%match
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    🇲🇷Ayoun El AtrousHodh El Gharbi, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 196 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    93%match
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    🇸🇩Al ManāqilAl Jazirah, Sudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.4 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 213 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    92%match
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    🇲🇱KidalMali

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3.9 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 99 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: canola (rapeseed)

    92%match
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    🇸🇩Ad DouiemWhite Nile, Sudan

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 183 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    92%match
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    🇸🇩BārahNorth Kordofan, Sudan

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.4 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 187 mm rain

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

    92%match
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    🇲🇷Magṭa‘ LaḥjarBrakna, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 134 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    92%match
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    🇹🇩BiltineWadi Fira, Chad

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 222 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    90%match
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    🇲🇱I-n-TillitGao, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 222 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    90%match
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    🇲🇱AndéranboukanMénaka, Mali

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.3 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 237 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    90%match
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    🇳🇪Tchin TabaradènTahoua Region, Niger

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 208 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    89%match
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    🇲🇷KiffaAssaba, Mauritania

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 198 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    89%match
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    🇳🇪AbalakTahoua Region, Niger

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 9.6 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 243 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao

    89%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.