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Land with a climate like Zomba

🇲🇼Zomba, Southern Region, Malawi

The towns with the closest growing climate to Zomba are Ntcheu, Malawi (95% match), Mandimba and Chimoio. About 166,000 sq mi of land in 15 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in São Paulo, Brazil, Yunnan, China and Zambezia Province, Mozambique.The towns with the closest growing climate to Zomba are Ntcheu, Malawi (95% match), Mandimba and Chimoio. About 431,000 km² of land in 15 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in São Paulo, Brazil, Yunnan, China and Zambezia Province, Mozambique.

Your growing climate

Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,136 mm rain

What grows in Zomba →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Terra Preta (84), Holambra (84)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Yunnan, China

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mengman (84), Mangshi (83)

  3. 3

    🇲🇿Zambezia Province, Mozambique

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Alto Molocue (88), Morrumbala (87)

  4. 4

    🇲🇼Southern Region, Malawi

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mwanza (88), Mangochi (79)

  5. 5

    🇲🇿Manica, Mozambique

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gondola (91), Chimoio (90)

  6. 6

    🇻🇳Điện Biên Province, Vietnam

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dien Bien Phu (73), Mường Lay (72)

  7. 7

    🇲🇲Shan State, Myanmar

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kēng Tung (81), Mu-se (79)

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    🇱🇦Xiangkhoang, Laos

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Muang Phônsavan (83)

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    🇱🇦Oudômxai, Laos

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Muang Xay (80)

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    🇲🇿Niassa Province, Mozambique

    4,100 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mandimba (94), Lichinga (50)

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    🇱🇦Luang Prabang Province, Laos

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Luang Prabang (56)

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    🇲🇬Alaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    3,400 sq mi8,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Imerimandroso (87), Andilamena (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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    🇲🇼NtcheuCentral Region, Malawi

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,031 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    95%match
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    🇲🇿MandimbaNiassa Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,042 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇲🇿ChimoioManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,098 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    90%match
  4. 4

    🇲🇼MwanzaSouthern Region, Malawi

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    88%match
  5. 5

    🇲🇿Alto MolocueZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,270 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇲🇿MorrumbalaZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 976 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇲🇬ImerimandrosoAlaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,208 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇲🇿GorongosaSofala, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,098 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    87%match
  9. 9

    🇲🇬AmbalavaoUpper Matsiatra, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 12 chill hours · 1,043 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    86%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇿CatandicaManica, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 1,243 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇲🇬IvohibeIhorombe, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 1 chill hours · 1,016 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇲🇿ManicaMozambique

    Zone 10b · No frost · 31 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 31 chill hours · 996 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇲🇿GurúèZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,804 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea

    85%match
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    🇲🇿MilangeZambezia Province, Mozambique

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,809 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: coffee (arabica), banana, tea

    84%match
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    🇨🇳Mengman↻Seasons flipped. Yunnan, China

    Zone 10b · No frost · 35 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 35 chill hours · 1,413 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: coffee (arabica), tea

    84%match
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    🇧🇷Mogi GuaçuSão Paulo, Brazil

    Zone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 4 chill hours · 1,329 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: coffee (arabica)

    83%match
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    🇱🇦Muang Phônsavan↻Seasons flipped. Xiangkhoang, Laos

    Zone 10b · No frost · 13 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 13 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: coffee (arabica)

    83%match
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    🇲🇿IapalaNampula, Mozambique

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,154 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇲🇬AndilamenaAlaotra Mangoro, Madagascar

    Zone 11a · No frost · 10 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 10 chill hours · 1,115 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    83%match
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    🇨🇳Menghuan↻Seasons flipped. Yunnan, China

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 176 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 176 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    83%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.