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Land with a climate like León, Nicaragua

🇳🇮León, León Department, Nicaragua

The towns with the closest growing climate to León, Nicaragua are San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua (98% match), La Unión and Puerto San José. About 38,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua and Managua Department, Nicaragua.The towns with the closest growing climate to León, Nicaragua are San Rafael del Sur, Nicaragua (98% match), La Unión and Puerto San José. About 99,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, Chinandega Department, Nicaragua and Managua Department, Nicaragua.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,620 mm rain

What grows in León, Nicaragua →

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 (89), Nicoya (81)

  2. 2

    🇳🇮Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

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

  3. 3

    🇳🇮Managua Department, Nicaragua

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

    For example San Rafael del Sur (98), Managua (84)

  4. 4

    🇳🇮León Department, Nicaragua

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

  5. 5

    🇭🇳Valle Department, Honduras

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

    For example San Lorenzo (93), Langue (89)

  6. 6

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

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

    For example Puerto San José (94), La Gomera (78)

  7. 7

    🇲🇽Chiapas, Mexico

    1,400 sq mi3,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mapastepec (70), Pijijiapan (69)

  8. 8

    🇸🇻Usulutan, El Salvador

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

    For example Usulután (93), Puerto El Triunfo (92)

  9. 9

    🇸🇻La Union, El Salvador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example La Unión (97)

  10. 10

    🇭🇳Choluteca Department, Honduras

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marcovia (92), Ciudad Choluteca (92)

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    🇸🇻San Miguel Department, El Salvador

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Miguel (92), San Rafael Oriente (85)

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    🇨🇷Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    600 sq mi1,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puntarenas (90), Chacarita (75)

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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    🇳🇮San Rafael del SurManagua Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,399 mm rain

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

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇸🇻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

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇬🇹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

    94%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

    92%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇻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

    92%match
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    🇭🇳Ciudad CholutecaCholuteca Department, Honduras

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,541 mm rain

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

    92%match
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    🇨🇷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

    90%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇷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

    89%match
  9. 9

    🇬🇹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

    88%match
  10. 10

    🇸🇻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

    86%match
  11. 11

    🇸🇻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

    86%match
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    🇳🇮GranadaGranada Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,567 mm rain

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

    84%match
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    🇨🇷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

    81%match
  14. 14

    🇬🇹GuastatoyaEl Progreso, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,144 mm rain

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

    79%match
  15. 15

    🇬🇹ChiquimulaGuatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 849 mm rain

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

    77%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

    76%match
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    🇳🇮RivasRivas Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,642 mm rain

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

    76%match
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    🇨🇴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

    76%match
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    🇮🇩Kupang↻Seasons flipped. East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,489 mm rain

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

    75%match
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    🇬🇹Asunción MitaJutiapa, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

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

    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.