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Land with a climate like La Rioja

🇦🇷La Rioja, Argentina

The towns with the closest growing climate to La Rioja are Aimogasta, Argentina (96% match), Catamarca and Rawson. About 85,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in La Rioja, Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentina and Salta, Argentina.The towns with the closest growing climate to La Rioja are Aimogasta, Argentina (96% match), Catamarca and Rawson. About 220,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in La Rioja, Argentina, Santiago del Estero, Argentina and Salta, Argentina.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 315 frost-free days · 552 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 315 frost-free days · 552 chill hours · 295 mm rain

What grows in La Rioja →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇦🇷La Rioja, Argentina

    7,800 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aimogasta (96)

  2. 2

    🇦🇷Santiago del Estero, Argentina

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santiago del Estero (83), Termas de Río Hondo (70)

  3. 3

    🇦🇷Salta, Argentina

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example General Güemes (87), Rosario de la Frontera (83)

  4. 4

    🇲🇽Coahuila, Mexico

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

    For example Ramos Arizpe (78), Castaños (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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    🇦🇷AimogastaLa Rioja, Argentina

    Zone 9a · 299 frost-free days · 709 chill hours · 9.2 in rainZone 9a · 299 frost-free days · 709 chill hours · 234 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇦🇷CatamarcaArgentina

    Zone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 387 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 328 frost-free days · 387 chill hours · 448 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops

    94%match
  3. 3

    🇦🇷RawsonSan Juan, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,018 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,018 chill hours · 256 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    91%match
  4. 4

    🇦🇷General GüemesSalta, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 352 frost-free days · 254 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 9b · 352 frost-free days · 254 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wine grapes

    87%match
  5. 5

    🇦🇷Santiago del EsteroArgentina

    Zone 9b · 348 frost-free days · 252 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 348 frost-free days · 252 chill hours · 547 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 29 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇦🇷Cruz del EjeCordoba, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 461 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 461 chill hours · 475 mm rain

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

    80%match
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    🇧🇼LobatseBotswana

    Zone 9a · 302 frost-free days · 637 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9a · 302 frost-free days · 637 chill hours · 448 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    79%match
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    🇦🇷San MartínMendoza, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 6.9 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 176 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, wine grapes

    79%match
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    🇦🇷San LuisArgentina

    Zone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 741 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 741 chill hours · 419 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, pear, kiwifruit

    79%match
  10. 10

    🇦🇷San Pedro de JujuyJujuy, Argentina

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 130 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 130 chill hours · 529 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 29 great-fit crops

    78%match
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    🇲🇽Castaños↻Seasons flipped. Coahuila, Mexico

    Zone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 336 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 336 chill hours · 293 mm rain

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

    78%match
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    🇦🇷San José de MetánSalta, Argentina

    Zone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 308 chill hours · 25 in rainZone 9b · 349 frost-free days · 308 chill hours · 635 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    77%match
  13. 13

    🇧🇼PalapyeCentral, Botswana

    Zone 9b · 325 frost-free days · 421 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 9b · 325 frost-free days · 421 chill hours · 402 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 29 great-fit crops

    77%match
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    🇲🇽Saltillo↻Seasons flipped. Coahuila, Mexico

    Zone 10a · 355 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 10a · 355 frost-free days · 331 chill hours · 303 mm rain

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

    77%match
  15. 15

    🇿🇦ZeerustNorth West, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 615 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 615 chill hours · 530 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    75%match
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    🇦🇷MendozaArgentina

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,065 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,065 chill hours · 227 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, wine grapes

    75%match
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    🇿🇦VaalwaterLimpopo, South Africa

    Zone 9a · 300 frost-free days · 664 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9a · 300 frost-free days · 664 chill hours · 545 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    75%match
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    🇦🇷BelénCatamarca, Argentina

    Zone 9a · 296 frost-free days · 772 chill hours · 5.5 in rainZone 9a · 296 frost-free days · 772 chill hours · 139 mm rain

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

    74%match
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    🇿🇦Bela BelaLimpopo, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 322 frost-free days · 504 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 9b · 322 frost-free days · 504 chill hours · 574 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 29 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    74%match
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    🇿🇦MarapongLimpopo, South Africa

    Zone 9b · 327 frost-free days · 397 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 9b · 327 frost-free days · 397 chill hours · 432 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 29 great-fit crops

    74%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.