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The Coffee Origins: where and when it grows

Thirty origins: who's harvesting now, where it grows and how it's described.

Harvest in

Harvesting in October  · Also picking in some regions: 8 more under the other tabs

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Harvesting in October

16 of 30 origins are picking this month. Choose one on the map or below to see its year, its growing regions and how its coffees are described.

Harvest isn't when it reaches your roaster

Coffee is processed, dried, rested, milled and shipped before a roaster sees it, so importers list arrival separately from harvest: Ethiopia is picked October–January and typically arrives April–June; Rwanda is picked March–June and typically arrives September–December; Hawaii is picked August–December and typically arrives December–March (Café Imports' origin calendars). There's no single lag that fits every origin.

Americas

Africa & Yemen

Asia & Pacific

How to read the map

Each origin's year is a ring, January at the top and running clockwise. Solid copper marks the main harvest, a paler arc a second crop where the sources give one (Colombia's mitaca, Kenya's fly crop), and hatching one month either side of each harvest. The hatching is a one-month margin we add around the calendar drawn, not an extra sourced harvest window: picking can start early or run late with altitude, region and the year's weather. Turn the month to light up every origin picking at that time.

Harvest isn't when coffee reaches your roaster. Cherries are processed, dried, rested, milled and shipped first, and importers list arrival separately: Café Imports gives Ethiopia's October–January harvest an April–June arrival in the US. There's no single lag that fits every origin.

Altitude is drawn on one scale, from sea level to 2,600 m, for the coffees each source describes, not the country's highest and lowest farms. Where robusta is at least a fifth of production, its band is shown hatched beside arabica's; Brazil is the exception, because no source gives a general band for its conilon.

"Often described as" is how importers describe each origin's coffees in general. It's a tendency, not a promise about a bag, and the processing often matters more than the country: a natural Ethiopian and a washed one can taste very different. The Flavor Bloom shows which words roasters use for which origins.

Every origin

Americas

OriginHarvestAltitude (arabica)Production
Bolivia Jun–Oct 1,200–2,000 m 80,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Brazil Apr–Sep 800–1,250 m 71.9 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Colombia Nov–Jan, and May–Jul (Huila) 1,200–2,200 m 13.4 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Costa Rica Oct–Mar 700–1,900 m 1.2 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Cuba Sep–Jan 600–800 m* 100,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Ecuador All year, depending on region 1,200–2,000 m 350,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
El Salvador Oct–Mar 400–2,000 m 542,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Guatemala Nov–Apr 700–1,800 m 3.3 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Hawaii Aug–Dec 90–915 m 30,000 60 kg bags (2025/26 estimate)
Honduras Nov–Apr 950–1,950 m 6 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Jamaica Feb–Jun, and Sep–Jan 900–1,700 m 15,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Mexico Nov–Mar 600–1,800 m 4.1 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Nicaragua Oct–Mar 600–1,500 m 2.4 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Panama Nov–Mar 1,000–2,200 m 100,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Peru Mar–Sep 1,000–2,300 m 4.8 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)

Africa & Yemen

OriginHarvestAltitude (arabica)Production
Burundi Mar–Jul 1,600–2,150 m 140,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Ethiopia Oct–Jan 1,100–2,300 m 12.1 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Kenya Oct–Dec, and May–Jul (Central Kenya) 1,100–2,300 m 950,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Malawi Apr–Oct 1,000–2,000 m No current figure
Rwanda Mar–Jun 1,000–2,100 m 350,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Tanzania May–Nov (arabica) 1,000–2,500 m 1.6 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Uganda May–Aug, and Nov–Feb (robusta) 1,500–2,300 m 7.2 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Yemen Oct–Mar 1,500–2,500 m No current figure

Asia & Pacific

OriginHarvestAltitude (arabica)Production
China (Yunnan) Oct–Mar 800–1,800 m 1.9 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
India Dec–Mar (robusta) 1,000–1,500 m 6.1 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Indonesia Oct–Jun (Sumatran arabica) 1,000–1,500 m 11.4 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Myanmar Dec–Mar 1,300–1,500 m No current figure
Papua New Guinea May–Sep, and Jan–Feb 1,000–2,000 m 800,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Thailand Nov–Mar (northern arabica) 1,100–1,600 m 900,000 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)
Vietnam Oct–Feb (robusta) 1,200–2,200+ m 32.5 million 60 kg bags (2026/27 forecast)

* One lot's growing altitude (Cuba: an Escambray lot from El Nicho); no national range is established. Every other band is a sourcing or growing band, scoped in its origin's profile.

Production is in 60 kg bags of green coffee, from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (PSD, July 2026) unless noted; forecasts are for the 2026/27 season. Hawaii's figure is calculated from the USDA's Hawaii coffee report. Harvest calendars are importers' (mostly Café Imports and Sucafina); other references, such as atlases and national boards, can differ by a month or so, so each country's page names the source of every figure. Research checked 15 October 2026.

Sources

94 sources, each checked 15 October 2026