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Land with a climate like El Retén

🇨🇴El Retén, Magdalena Department, Colombia

The towns with the closest growing climate to El Retén are Repelón, Colombia (99% match), Puerto Colombia and San Pablo. About 142,000 sq mi of land in 16 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guárico, Venezuela, Apure, Venezuela and Portuguesa, Venezuela.The towns with the closest growing climate to El Retén are Repelón, Colombia (99% match), Puerto Colombia and San Pablo. About 367,000 km² of land in 16 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guárico, Venezuela, Apure, Venezuela and Portuguesa, Venezuela.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 942 mm rain

What grows in El Retén →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇻🇪Guárico, Venezuela

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Sombrero (87), Calabozo (86)

  2. 2

    🇻🇪Apure, Venezuela

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Biruaca (82), San Fernando de Apure (82)

  3. 3

    🇻🇪Portuguesa, Venezuela

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Guanarito (87), San Rafael de Onoto (86)

  4. 4

    🇨🇴Magdalena Department, Colombia

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Plato (89), Chivolo (89)

  5. 5

    🇨🇴La Guajira Department, Colombia

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fonseca (94), Barrancas (93)

  6. 6

    🇨🇴Bolívar, Colombia

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santa Rosa (95), Arjona (95)

  7. 7

    🇨🇷Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Liberia (86), Cañas (84)

  8. 8

    🇻🇳Dong Thap, Vietnam

    3,500 sq mi9,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cai Lậy (85), Tràm Chim (84)

  9. 9

    🇮🇩East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

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

    For example Lewoleba (84), Maumere (82)

  10. 10

    🇰🇭Siem Reap, Cambodia

    2,900 sq mi7,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Siem Reap (86), Yeang (84)

  11. 11

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

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

    For example Puerto San José (88), La Gomera (84)

  12. 12

    🇻🇳Vinh Long, Vietnam

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bến Tre (83), Vĩnh Long (83)

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

  1. 1

    🇨🇴RepelónAtlántico, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,147 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇴Puerto ColombiaAtlántico, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 826 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    93%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇴San PabloBolívar, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,313 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    92%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇴San Juan del CesarLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    91%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇴CartagenaBolívar, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 953 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    91%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇴AlbaniaLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 956 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    91%match
  7. 7

    🇻🇪Mene de MauroaFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 891 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    91%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇴ValleduparCesar Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,116 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    90%match
  9. 9

    🇻🇪DabajuroFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇴San OnofreSucre Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,205 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    90%match
  11. 11

    🇻🇪Los Puertos de AltagraciaZulia, Venezuela

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 14 great-fit crops

    90%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇴PlatoMagdalena Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,319 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    89%match
  13. 13

    🇻🇪El SombreroGuárico, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,160 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    87%match
  14. 14

    🇨🇴RiohachaLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 689 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    87%match
  15. 15

    🇻🇪GuanaritoPortuguesa, Venezuela

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,418 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, cacao

    87%match
  16. 16

    🇨🇴Nueva GranadaMagdalena Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana

    86%match
  17. 17

    🇰🇭Siem ReapCambodia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,342 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    86%match
  18. 18

    🇨🇷LiberiaGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,971 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, strawberry

    86%match
  19. 19

    🇻🇪CalabozoGuárico, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,270 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    86%match
  20. 20

    🇻🇪El PaoCojedes, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,262 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops

    86%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.