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Land with a climate like El Crucero

🇳🇮El Crucero, Managua Department, Nicaragua

The towns with the closest growing climate to El Crucero are Estelí, Nicaragua (96% match), Matagalpa and Esquipulas. About 37,000 sq mi of land in 12 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Dak Lak, Vietnam and Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras.The towns with the closest growing climate to El Crucero are Estelí, Nicaragua (96% match), Matagalpa and Esquipulas. About 96,000 km² of land in 12 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Dak Lak, Vietnam and Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras.

Your growing climate

Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,467 mm rain

What grows in El Crucero →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇩East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Soe (93), Kefamenanu (87)

  2. 2

    🇻🇳Dak Lak, Vietnam

    2,000 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Buôn Hồ (86), Ea Drăng (84)

  3. 3

    🇭🇳Francisco Morazán Department, Honduras

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sabanagrande (90), Tegucigalpa (86)

  4. 4

    🇳🇮Nueva Segovia Department, Nicaragua

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ocotal (92), Jalapa (77)

  5. 5

    🇭🇳El Paraíso Department, Honduras

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Paraíso (89), Danlí (83)

  6. 6

    🇳🇮Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua

    1,200 sq mi3,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matagalpa (95), Río Blanco (70)

  7. 7

    🇭🇳Comayagua Department, Honduras

    1,200 sq mi3,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Esquías (79), Siguatepeque (77)

  8. 8

    🇨🇴Cesar Department, Colombia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

  9. 9

    🇨🇴Magdalena Department, Colombia

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

  10. 10

    🇮🇳Tamil Nadu, India

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gudalur (82), Devarshola (81)

  11. 11

    🇳🇮Madriz Department, Nicaragua

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Somoto (95)

  12. 12

    🇻🇳Gia Lai, Vietnam

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pleiku (72), An Khê (64)

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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    🇳🇮EstelíEstelí Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,167 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇮MatagalpaMatagalpa Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,465 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    95%match
  3. 3

    🇬🇹EsquipulasChiquimula, Guatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,306 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇮🇩Soe↻Seasons flipped. East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,472 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea, cacao

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇳🇮OcotalNueva Segovia Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,078 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    92%match
  6. 6

    🇬🇹San Pedro AyampucGuatemala, Guatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,516 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, banana

    91%match
  7. 7

    🇭🇳San Pedro de CopánCopán Department, Honduras

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,361 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    90%match
  8. 8

    🇸🇻Santiago de MaríaUsulutan, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,999 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇮🇩Kefamenanu↻Seasons flipped. East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,300 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    87%match
  10. 10

    🇭🇳TegucigalpaFrancisco Morazán Department, Honduras

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,110 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    86%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇹PalínEscuintla, Guatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,772 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea

    86%match
  12. 12

    🇻🇳Buôn HồDak Lak, Vietnam

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,599 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cacao, tea

    86%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇷San Rafael AbajoSan José, Costa Rica

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,222 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea, cacao

    85%match
  14. 14

    🇭🇳La IgualaLempira Department, Honduras

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,331 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
  15. 15

    🇬🇹CuilapaSanta Rosa Department, Guatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,816 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao, banana, tea

    84%match
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    🇸🇻San MartínCuscatlan, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,001 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops

    84%match
  17. 17

    🇭🇳ColomoncaguaIntibucá Department, Honduras

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,950 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, tea, cacao

    84%match
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    🇸🇻Santa AnaSanta Ana Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,679 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇸🇻San SalvadorSan Salvador Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,928 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇳🇮BoacoBoaco Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,680 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao, banana, tea

    83%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.