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Land with a climate like Hayward

🇺🇸Hayward, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hayward are Gilroy, United States (99% match), San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. About 29,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hayward are Gilroy, United States (99% match), San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. About 74,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 10a · 358 frost-free days · 455 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 10a · 358 frost-free days · 455 chill hours · 447 mm rain

What grows in Hayward →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    18k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gilroy (99), Hollister (97)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

    3,800 sq mi9,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa Alemana (89), Cabildo (87)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

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

    For example Peñaflor (94), Talagante (94)

  4. 4

    🇨🇱O'Higgins Region, Chile

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

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

  5. 5

    🇲🇦Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Benslimane (84), El Gara (80)

  6. 6

    🇲🇦Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ain El Aouda (82), Sidi Allal El Bahraoui (82)

  7. 7

    🇱🇾Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Bayḑā’ (81), Shahhat (79)

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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    🇺🇸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 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, rice, cotton

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸San Luis ObispoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 518 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 518 chill hours · 559 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 29 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇺🇸Santa BarbaraCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 321 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 321 chill hours · 434 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    93%match
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    🇺🇸SoledadCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 792 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 315 frost-free days · 792 chill hours · 304 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops

    93%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 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    92%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 20 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    90%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 21 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    90%match
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    🇺🇸Santa MariaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 521 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 521 chill hours · 429 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 29 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇺🇸Santa CruzCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 347 frost-free days · 666 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10a · 347 frost-free days · 666 chill hours · 754 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 29 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇺🇸VacavilleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 800 chill hours · 596 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, pistachio, hops

    86%match
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    🇨🇱Quilpué↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 352 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 352 chill hours · 375 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 29 great-fit crops

    86%match
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    🇨🇱San Antonio↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 183 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 183 chill hours · 398 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, rice

    85%match
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    🇲🇦BenslimaneCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 406 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, rice, peanut

    84%match
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    🇺🇸VenturaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 231 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 231 chill hours · 361 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    84%match
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    🇨🇱La Ligua↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 317 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 317 chill hours · 274 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    84%match
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    🇺🇸SacramentoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 454 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, rice

    82%match
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    🇱🇾Al Bayḑā’Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 476 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 476 chill hours · 467 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, rice, peanut

    81%match
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    🇺🇸StocktonCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 774 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 774 chill hours · 359 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, pistachio, rice

    81%match
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    🇺🇸Thousand OaksCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 355 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 355 chill hours · 362 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, macadamia, rice

    80%match
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    🇺🇸OakdaleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 924 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 924 chill hours · 366 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, pistachio, rice

    78%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.