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Land with a climate like Zahlé

🇱🇧Zahlé, Bekaa, Lebanon

The towns with the closest growing climate to Zahlé are Al Qunayţirah, Syria (99% match), El Hermel and ‘Ajlūn. About 17,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Rif-dimashq, Syria and Homs, Syria.The towns with the closest growing climate to Zahlé are Al Qunayţirah, Syria (99% match), El Hermel and ‘Ajlūn. About 44,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Rif-dimashq, Syria and Homs, Syria.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,202 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,202 chill hours · 871 mm rain

What grows in Zahlé →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    7,500 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Dorado Hills (85), Cameron Park (84)

  2. 2

    🇸🇾Rif-dimashq, Syria

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

    For example Qārah (64), An Nabk (56)

  3. 3

    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

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

    For example Al Quşayr (84), Homs (82)

  4. 4

    🇹🇷Gaziantep, Turkey

    1,200 sq mi3,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gaziantep (84), Nizip (75)

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    🇱🇧Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Hermel (93)

  6. 6

    🇮🇶Duhok, Iraq

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Batifa (81), Dêrelûk Devera Nihêliya (77)

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    🇮🇶Erbil, Iraq

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Soran (77), Ṟuwandiz (76)

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    🇹🇷Kilis, Turkey

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kilis (83)

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    🇮🇶Nineveh, Iraq

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example ‘Aqrah (76), 'Ākra (59)

  10. 10

    🇸🇾Quneitra, Syria

    300 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qunayţirah (99)

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    🇱🇧Nabatieh, Lebanon

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

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    🇱🇧Mount Lebanon, Lebanon

    200 sq mi600 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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    🇸🇾Al QunayţirahQuneitra, Syria

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,032 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,032 chill hours · 727 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇱🇧El HermelBaalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon

    Zone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 837 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9a · 283 frost-free days · 837 chill hours · 540 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    93%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇴‘AjlūnAjloun, Jordan

    Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 954 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 954 chill hours · 493 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, maize (corn), sunflower

    85%match
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    🇹🇷GaziantepTurkey

    Zone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 506 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    84%match
  5. 5

    🇹🇷KilisTurkey

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,360 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,360 chill hours · 496 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, maize (corn), soybean

    83%match
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    🇹🇷PazarcıkKahramanmaraş, Turkey

    Zone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,681 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8a · 229 frost-free days · 1,681 chill hours · 537 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    82%match
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    🇺🇸VacavilleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, hops

    82%match
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    🇸🇾HomsSyria

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 385 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, sorghum

    82%match
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    🇸🇾KafranbelIdlib, Syria

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 935 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 935 chill hours · 556 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    81%match
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    🇮🇶BatifaDuhok, Iraq

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,456 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,456 chill hours · 759 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    81%match
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    🇹🇷ŞırnakTurkey

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,686 chill hours · 29 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,686 chill hours · 734 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    81%match
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    🇸🇾As-SuwaydaSuwayda, Syria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,111 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,111 chill hours · 302 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, maize (corn), soybean

    80%match
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    🇹🇷MardinTurkey

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,662 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,662 chill hours · 615 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    80%match
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    🇸🇾MaşyāfHama, Syria

    Zone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 601 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 9a · 313 frost-free days · 601 chill hours · 907 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato, sunflower

    79%match
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    🇺🇸Yuba CityCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 540 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    79%match
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    🇺🇸ChicoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 258 frost-free days · 1,013 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 258 frost-free days · 1,013 chill hours · 610 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, hops

    79%match
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    🇺🇸SacramentoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 454 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato, maize (corn)

    78%match
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    🇮🇶SoranErbil, Iraq

    Zone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,356 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,356 chill hours · 769 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    77%match
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    🇮🇷Eslāmābād-e GharbKermanshah Province, Iran

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,656 chill hours · 521 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    77%match
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    🇮🇶ShelādizDuhok, Iraq

    Zone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,361 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,361 chill hours · 836 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio

    77%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.