How to find what zone location?

[Narnia]

Could someone tell me what zone we're in,location:Northern New South Wales Australia. or How to find this information?Thanks Thanks Thanks

[MediaHound]

I found this in Wikipedia:

Australian Hardiness Zones

The Australian continent, though surrounded by ocean, is drier than Europe or North America. Australia numbers its climate zones differently but these can be made roughly equivalent to North American hardiness zones by adding an offset of 6. For example, Australian Zone 3 is roughly equivalent to North America Zone 9. The higher Australian zone numbers have no US equivalents.

• Zone 1 covers the alpine areas of southeastern Australia.
• Zone 2 the tablelands of south east Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, and the uplands of central Tasmania.
• Zone 3 includes much of the southern half of the continent, except for near the coast.
• Zone 4, because of the warmer seaboard, covers a broad area from coastal Queensland across to Shark Bay and Geraldton in the west, and includes the Mornington Peninsula, areas adjacent to Spencer Gulf and Adelaide, the southwestern coastal zone, Sydney and the north coast of NSW, along with a number of localities dotted all around the southern coast of the continent.
• Zone 5 covers some of the Queensland coast, Western Australia north of Shark Bay, and across the Top End.
• Zone 6 includes the Queensland coast north of Cairns, Cape York Peninsula and the coast of the Northern Territory.
• Zone 7 is mainly restricted to islands off the north coast.

There are problems with classifications of this type: the spread of weather stations is insufficient to give clear zones and too many places with different climates are lumped together. Only 738 Australian stations have records of more than ten years (one station per 98,491 hectares), though more populated areas have relatively fewer hectares per station. Local factors such as aspect, altitude, proximity to the sea also complicate the matter. For example, Mount Isa has three climatic stations with more than a ten year record. One is in Zone 4a, one in Zone 4b and the other is in Zone 5a. Likewise, Sydney residents can choose between Zones 3a and 4b. Most other cities have similar problems. Different locations in the same city are suitable for different plants, making it hard to draw a meaningful map. There may even be a case for publishing a list of weather stations and their zone classification to allow best use of local conditions.

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