Mango
The mango is the great fruit tree of the seasonally-dry tropics. It wants heat and, crucially, a dry spell to trigger flowering, so it fruits best where a wet summer meets a dry winter — above all in India, which grows nearly half the world's crop.
How it grows
Mango grows on a tree — the fruit ripens above the ground, up in the canopy.
What it’s worth to grow
Farm-gate value = the price farmers are paid per kilogram (FAOSTAT producer prices, median of 282 positive country-year observations spanning 2018–2024). It tracks how costly and labour-intensive a crop is to grow — almonds and vanilla command a premium; potatoes and cereals are cheap staples.
Where Earth's climate suits mango
Climatic suitability only — scored for every 0.5° of the planet from this crop's temperature and rainfall tolerances (FAO EcoCrop) on AgroClim 1991–2025 normals (AgERA5 temperature, CHIRPS/ERA5 rainfall). It shows where the rain-fed climate permits the crop, not where it is grown today; irrigation lets many crops thrive in drier country than the map suggests (California, Egypt, the Indus and Nile).
Who grows it — and where the climate merely allows it
The climate where it grows
— mean monthly temperature ▍ monthly rainfall — averaged over the actual growing areas (the suitable cells) inside each country, so it reflects where the crop is really grown, not the national average. AgroClim 1991–2025 normals. The 🌧 badge is the last 3 months’ rainfall as a percentage of the 1991–2020 CHIRPS normal (through 2025-12) — the current drought/deluge signal.
Climate envelope · FAO EcoCrop
Deep bar = optimal range; pale bar = absolute tolerance. Beyond the pale bar the crop fails. Latitude tolerance ±30° · soil pH 4.3–8.5.
Growing calendar & hazards
Flowering is cued by the cool, dry season and the fruit ripens through the following hot months — the celebrated Indian mango season of April to July.
- Frost & cold. Young trees are killed by frost; cold snaps at flowering abort the crop.
- Untimely rain. Rain or humidity during flowering spreads anthracnose and knocks off the bloom.
- Alternate bearing. Heavy 'on' years are followed by light 'off' years.