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Land with a climate like Zaxo

🇮🇶Zaxo, Duhok, Iraq

The towns with the closest growing climate to Zaxo are 'Ākra, Iraq (99% match), Halabja and Sulaymaniyah. About 30,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nineveh, Iraq, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq and Al-Hasakah, Syria.The towns with the closest growing climate to Zaxo are 'Ākra, Iraq (99% match), Halabja and Sulaymaniyah. About 77,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Nineveh, Iraq, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq and Al-Hasakah, Syria.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Zaxo →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇮🇶Nineveh, Iraq

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example 'Ākra (99), Tallkayf (96)

  2. 2

    🇮🇶Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sulaymaniyah (97), Hajiawa (97)

  3. 3

    🇸🇾Al-Hasakah, Syria

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qāmishlī (94), ‘Āmūdā (88)

  4. 4

    🇮🇶Erbil, Iraq

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Baḥarkah (99), Khasnahzān (99)

  5. 5

    🇹🇷Şırnak, Turkey

    1,400 sq mi3,700 km² matching 80% or better

  6. 6

    🇮🇷Ilam Province, Iran

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

    For example Ābdānān (79), Eyvān (78)

  7. 7

    🇮🇷Lorestan Province, Iran

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

    For example Poldokhtar (80), Khorramabad (78)

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    🇮🇷Kermanshah Province, Iran

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

    For example Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb (92), Qaşr-e Shīrīn (74)

  9. 9

    🇹🇷Şanlıurfa, Turkey

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

    For example Bozova (78), Şanlıurfa (78)

  10. 10

    🇹🇷Mardin, Turkey

    700 sq mi1,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nusaybin (94), Kızıltepe (80)

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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    🇮🇶'ĀkraNineveh, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,078 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,078 chill hours · 833 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇮🇶HalabjaIraq

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 916 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 916 chill hours · 707 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    99%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 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇮🇶XebatErbil, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 789 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 789 chill hours · 511 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 15 great-fit crops

    97%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 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇮🇶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 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    97%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 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇮🇶TallkayfNineveh, Iraq

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 659 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 659 chill hours · 538 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 15 great-fit crops

    96%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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, cotton, sorghum

    94%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 13 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, saffron

    93%match
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    🇮🇶Dêrelûk Devera NihêliyaDuhok, Iraq

    Zone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 842 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, garlic, cherry

    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 12 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, maize (corn), soybean

    92%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 12 of your 15 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇹🇷KızıltepeMardin, Turkey

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 419 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, sorghum

    80%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 11 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, soybean, maize (corn)

    80%match
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    🇮🇶SinjārNineveh, Iraq

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

    Shares 12 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, soybean, maize (corn)

    80%match
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    🇸🇾Al ḨasakahAl-Hasakah, Syria

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 289 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sorghum, sunflower

    79%match
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    🇮🇷EyvānIlam Province, Iran

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 473 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, soybean, sunflower

    78%match
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    🇮🇷KhorramabadLorestan Province, Iran

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 790 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 790 chill hours · 471 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sorghum, sunflower

    78%match
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    🇹🇷ŞanlıurfaTurkey

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,102 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,102 chill hours · 434 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sorghum, sunflower

    78%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.