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Land with a climate like El Calafate

🇦🇷El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina

The towns with the closest growing climate to El Calafate are Río Gallegos, Argentina (94% match), Puerto Natales and Puerto Deseado. About 72,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Santa Cruz, Argentina, Region of Magallanes, Chile and Aysén, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to El Calafate are Río Gallegos, Argentina (94% match), Puerto Natales and Puerto Deseado. About 186,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Santa Cruz, Argentina, Region of Magallanes, Chile and Aysén, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 168 frost-free days · 3,252 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8b · 168 frost-free days · 3,252 chill hours · 266 mm rain

What grows in El Calafate →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇦🇷Santa Cruz, Argentina

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Río Gallegos (94), Puerto Deseado (75)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Region of Magallanes, Chile

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puerto Natales (81), Punta Arenas (50)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Aysén, Chile

    1,700 sq mi4,300 km² matching 80% or better

  4. 4

    🇦🇷Chubut, Argentina

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Esquel (62)

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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    🇦🇷Río GallegosSanta Cruz, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 179 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8b · 179 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 262 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    94%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇱Puerto NatalesRegion of Magallanes, Chile

    Zone 8b · 168 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 8b · 168 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 393 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 6 great-fit crops

    81%match
  3. 3

    🇦🇷Puerto DeseadoSanta Cruz, Argentina

    Zone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 7.6 in rainZone 9a · 240 frost-free days · 2,141 chill hours · 193 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, hops

    75%match
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    🇦🇷Río GrandeTierra del Fuego, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 175 frost-free days · 3,507 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 175 frost-free days · 3,507 chill hours · 316 mm rain

    Shares 4 of your 6 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇦🇷EsquelChubut, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 173 frost-free days · 2,767 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 173 frost-free days · 2,767 chill hours · 699 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, lavender

    62%match
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    🇨🇦Kamloops↻Seasons flipped. British Columbia, Canada

    Zone 6b · 146 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 6b · 146 frost-free days · 3,484 chill hours · 345 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, hops

    54%match
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    🇨🇦Kelowna↻Seasons flipped. British Columbia, Canada

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 353 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, garlic, pear

    54%match
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    🇨🇦Penticton↻Seasons flipped. British Columbia, Canada

    Zone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,121 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 7b · 173 frost-free days · 3,121 chill hours · 309 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, pear, garlic

    53%match
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    🇺🇸Bend↻Seasons flipped. Oregon, United States

    Zone 7b · 108 frost-free days · 3,136 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 7b · 108 frost-free days · 3,136 chill hours · 305 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, saffron

    51%match
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    🇨🇱Punta ArenasRegion of Magallanes, Chile

    Zone 8b · 185 frost-free days · 3,438 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8b · 185 frost-free days · 3,438 chill hours · 588 mm rain

    Shares 3 of your 6 great-fit crops

    50%match
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    🇺🇸Ellensburg↻Seasons flipped. Washington, United States

    Zone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 9.5 in rainZone 7a · 159 frost-free days · 3,105 chill hours · 242 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, garlic, hops

    48%match
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    🇦🇷UshuaiaTierra del Fuego, Argentina

    Zone 9a · 203 frost-free days · 3,516 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9a · 203 frost-free days · 3,516 chill hours · 476 mm rain

    Shares 3 of your 6 great-fit crops

    47%match
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    🇺🇸Kalispell↻Seasons flipped. Montana, United States

    Zone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7a · 138 frost-free days · 3,549 chill hours · 450 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, garlic, hemp

    47%match
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    🇺🇸Spokane↻Seasons flipped. Washington, United States

    Zone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,227 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 7b · 161 frost-free days · 3,227 chill hours · 438 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, hops, hemp

    47%match
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    🇺🇸Pullman↻Seasons flipped. Washington, United States

    Zone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,247 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 7b · 156 frost-free days · 3,247 chill hours · 511 mm rain

    Shares 2 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, cherry

    46%match
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    🇺🇸Missoula↻Seasons flipped. Montana, United States

    Zone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 7a · 130 frost-free days · 3,462 chill hours · 344 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, hemp

    45%match
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    🇦🇷Pico TruncadoSanta Cruz, Argentina

    Zone 9a · 238 frost-free days · 1,801 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 9a · 238 frost-free days · 1,801 chill hours · 195 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, pear, lavender

    43%match
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    🇮🇸Akureyri↻Seasons flipped. Northeast, Iceland

    Zone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 3,997 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 8a · 152 frost-free days · 3,997 chill hours · 581 mm rain

    Shares 3 of your 6 great-fit crops

    42%match
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    🇲🇰Kriva Palanka↻Seasons flipped. North Macedonia

    Zone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,171 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 7b · 167 frost-free days · 3,171 chill hours · 580 mm rain

    Shares 5 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, lavender, cherry

    42%match
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    🇧🇬Samokov↻Seasons flipped. Sofia, Bulgaria

    Zone 7b · 171 frost-free days · 3,140 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 7b · 171 frost-free days · 3,140 chill hours · 612 mm rain

    Shares 6 of your 6 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, lavender

    41%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.