Where can I grow tomato?
Solanum lycopersicum · Vegetable · Annual
Tomato is a great fit (80+) on 97.8 million km² (37.8 million sq mi) of land in 224 countries, 34% of it only with irrigation. The most well-suited land is in Pará, Brazil, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Amazonas, Brazil. Where it can't grow, it's usually growing season too cool (74%) and nights too cold in the growing season (25%).
Tap the map for the score at any spot. Each square is a 28 km (17 mile) grid cell.
- Great fit (80+)
- 97.8M km²(37.8M sq mi)
- 68% of land
- Worth a try (50–79)
- 7.0M km²(2.7M sq mi)
- 5% of land
- Great fit without irrigation
- 64.3M km²(24.8M sq mi)
- Rain alone is enough
- Countries
- 224
- With great-fit land
Regions with the most suitable land
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- 2
🇧🇷Minas Gerais, Brazil
Great fit on 564k km² (218k sq mi)
For example Belo Horizonte (100), Uberlândia (100)
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- 4
🇺🇸Texas, United States
Great fit on 520k km² (201k sq mi)
For example Houston (100), San Antonio (100)
- 5
🇨🇳Xinjiang, China
Great fit on 421k km² (162k sq mi) · worth a try on 28k km² (11k sq mi) · mostly with irrigation
For example Awuliya (100), Weiwu'eryuqiwen (100)
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- 7
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🇦🇷Buenos Aires, Argentina
Great fit on 305k km² (118k sq mi)
For example Mar del Plata (100), Avellaneda (100)
- 10
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🇺🇸California, United States
Great fit on 275k km² (106k sq mi) · worth a try on 38k km² (15k sq mi) · mostly with irrigation
For example Oroville (100), East Los Angeles (100)
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Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.
By country
- 🇧🇷Brazil6.0M km² (2.3M sq mi) · 100% of its land
- 🇺🇸United States4.7M km² (1.8M sq mi) · 85% of its land
- 🇨🇳China4.5M km² (1.7M sq mi) · 80% of its land
- 🇮🇳India3.1M km² (1.2M sq mi) · 96% of its land
- 🇲🇽Mexico1.6M km² (606k sq mi) · 97% of its land
- 🇮🇷Iran1.4M km² (537k sq mi) · 99% of its land
- 🇮🇩Indonesia1.4M km² (533k sq mi) · 88% of its land
- 🇦🇷Argentina1.4M km² (527k sq mi) · 87% of its land
- 🇷🇺Russia1.2M km² (455k sq mi) · 24% of its land
- 🇨🇩Democratic Republic of the Congo1.1M km² (433k sq mi) · 100% of its land
Best-suited towns
- 100%fit
🇺🇸 Michigan, United States
- 100%fit
🇻🇳 Ninh Binh, Vietnam
- 100%fit
🇮🇹 Piedmont, Italy
- 100%fit
🇲🇽 Morelos, Mexico
- 100%fit
🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
- 100%fit
🇻🇳 Hanoi, Vietnam
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Shanxi, China
- 100%fit
🇮🇹 Lombardy, Italy
- 100%fit
🇨🇳 Shaanxi, China
- 100%fit
🇿🇦 Gauteng, South Africa
- 100%fit
🇻🇪 Venezuela
- 100%fit
🇻🇳 Hai Phong, Vietnam
The most comfortable fits among the 2,000 biggest towns, two per region.
What tomato needs
- Growing-season average
- Ideal 64–81°F (18–27°C)Won't grow below 55°F (13°C) or above 91°F (33°C)
- Coldest growing-season night (monthly average)
- Ideal at least 50°F (10°C)Won't grow below 41°F (5°C)
- Growing-season rain
- Ideal 9.8–24 in (250–600 mm)Won't grow below 3.9 in (100 mm) or above 43 in (1,100 mm)
Fruit set fails when nights drop below ~10 °C or days top ~35 °C. Wet seasons bring blight.
Sources: FAO ECOCROP: Solanum lycopersicum; FAO Crop Water Information: tomato. Ranges not yet reviewed by an agronomist.
What stops it elsewhere
- Growing season too cool74%
- Nights too cold in the growing season25%
- Too wet in the growing season1%
Share of the land scoring under 50, by what holds it back most.
How this map works
Every 28 km square of land is scored 0–100 against the requirements above, using 1991–2020 monthly climate averages with frost, chill and heat estimated by simulating daily weather. Each square is scored with whichever variety fits it best. “With irrigation” ignores rain shortfalls; “Rain-fed only” counts them.
Climate is only part of it: soil, slope, water and markets decide where a crop is actually farmed. Use this to shortlist places, then check them locally.