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Land with a climate like Elk Grove

🇺🇸Elk Grove, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Elk Grove are Livermore, United States (99% match), Chico and Yuba City. About 32,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile and O'Higgins Region, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to Elk Grove are Livermore, United States (99% match), Chico and Yuba City. About 83,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile and O'Higgins Region, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 838 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 838 chill hours · 461 mm rain

What grows in Elk Grove →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    27k sq mi71k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oakdale (99), Livermore (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Paine (89), Buin (86)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱O'Higgins Region, Chile

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

    For example Rengo (90), San Vicente de Tagua Tagua (86)

  4. 4

    🇩🇿Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sfizef (81), Sidi Bel Abbes (80)

  5. 5

    🇱🇧Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Hermel (78), Baalbek (78)

  6. 6

    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Quşayr (78), Homs (67)

  7. 7

    🇪🇸Andalusia, Spain

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Las Gabias (82), Maracena (80)

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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    🇺🇸LivermoreCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 296 frost-free days · 805 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9b · 296 frost-free days · 805 chill hours · 385 mm rain

    Shares 33 of your 35 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸ChicoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 258 frost-free days · 1,013 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 258 frost-free days · 1,013 chill hours · 610 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 35 great-fit crops

    95%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸Yuba CityCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 540 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 35 great-fit crops

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸ModestoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 726 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 726 chill hours · 303 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MercedCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 933 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 933 chill hours · 318 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸VallejoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 704 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 704 chill hours · 666 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 35 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇺🇸Los BanosCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 826 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 826 chill hours · 225 mm rain

    Shares 34 of your 35 great-fit crops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸GilroyCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 701 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 701 chill hours · 473 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇺🇸MaderaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 946 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 946 chill hours · 264 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇨🇱San Vicente de Tagua Tagua↻Seasons flipped. O'Higgins Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 553 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 35 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇺🇸ClearlakeCalifornia, United States

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 35 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇨🇱Santiago↻Seasons flipped. Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    Zone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 372 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 35 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇺🇸Paso RoblesCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 1,095 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 1,095 chill hours · 365 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 35 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇺🇸SunnyvaleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 426 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 35 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    84%match
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    🇺🇸UkiahCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 938 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 35 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Santa RosaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 298 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 298 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 822 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 35 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇩🇿Sidi Bel AbbesSidi Bel Abbès, Algeria

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 771 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 771 chill hours · 378 mm rain

    Shares 34 of your 35 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇪🇸GranadaAndalusia, Spain

    Zone 9a · 266 frost-free days · 912 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 266 frost-free days · 912 chill hours · 378 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇩🇿MascaraAlgeria

    Zone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 801 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 9a · 274 frost-free days · 801 chill hours · 444 mm rain

    Shares 33 of your 35 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇺🇸TulareCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 840 chill hours · 8.5 in rainZone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 840 chill hours · 216 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 35 great-fit crops

    79%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.