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Land with a climate like El Viejo

🇳🇮El Viejo, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

The towns with the closest growing climate to El Viejo are La Unión, El Salvador (98% match), Puerto San José and Mateare. About 27,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua and Chiapas, Mexico.The towns with the closest growing climate to El Viejo are La Unión, El Salvador (98% match), Puerto San José and Mateare. About 70,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua and Chiapas, Mexico.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,742 mm rain

What grows in El Viejo →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇷Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

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

    For example Liberia (88), Nicoya (80)

  2. 2

    🇳🇮Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

  3. 3

    🇲🇽Chiapas, Mexico

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mapastepec (76), Huixtla (73)

  4. 4

    🇳🇮Managua Department, Nicaragua

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

    For example Mateare (93), Ciudad Sandino (89)

  5. 5

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

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

    For example Puerto San José (93), La Gomera (81)

  6. 6

    🇳🇮León Department, Nicaragua

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

    For example Nagarote (95)

  7. 7

    🇭🇳Valle Department, Honduras

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

    For example San Lorenzo (92), Langue (92)

  8. 8

    🇸🇻Usulutan, El Salvador

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

    For example Usulután (92), Puerto El Triunfo (90)

  9. 9

    🇸🇻La Union, El Salvador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example La Unión (98)

  10. 10

    🇭🇳Choluteca Department, Honduras

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

  11. 11

    🇸🇻Sonsonate Department, El Salvador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Acajutla (87), Sonsonate (77)

  12. 12

    🇨🇷Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puntarenas (89), Chacarita (78)

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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    🇸🇻La UniónLa Union, El Salvador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,870 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇬🇹Puerto San JoséEscuintla, Guatemala

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,553 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops

    93%match
  3. 3

    🇳🇮MateareManagua Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,435 mm rain

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

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇸🇻San MiguelSan Miguel Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,767 mm rain

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

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇭🇳San LorenzoValle Department, Honduras

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,565 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    92%match
  6. 6

    🇸🇻Puerto El TriunfoUsulutan, El Salvador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,944 mm rain

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

    90%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇹GuazacapánSanta Rosa Department, Guatemala

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, cacao, banana

    90%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇷PuntarenasPuntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,824 mm rain

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

    89%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇷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 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, strawberry

    88%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇻AcajutlaSonsonate Department, El Salvador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,827 mm rain

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

    87%match
  11. 11

    🇸🇻La LibertadLa Libertad Department, El Salvador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,922 mm rain

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

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇳🇮NandaimeGranada Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,555 mm rain

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

    85%match
  13. 13

    🇳🇮MasayaMasaya Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

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

    84%match
  14. 14

    🇨🇷NicoyaGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,016 mm rain

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

    80%match
  15. 15

    🇻🇪CalabozoGuárico, Venezuela

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

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    79%match
  16. 16

    🇨🇴El ReténMagdalena Department, Colombia

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

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    78%match
  17. 17

    🇰🇭Tbeng MeancheyPreah Vihear, Cambodia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,645 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops

    77%match
  18. 18

    🇰🇭Siem ReapCambodia

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

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    76%match
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    🇲🇽MapastepecChiapas, Mexico

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 95 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,408 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇲🇽CrucecitaOaxaca, Mexico

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,191 mm rain

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

    75%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.