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Land with a climate like Montecristi

🇪🇨Montecristi, Manabí, Ecuador

The towns with the closest growing climate to Montecristi are Playas, Ecuador (97% match), Machala and Santa Elena. About 13,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Manabí, Ecuador, Guayas, Ecuador and El Oro, Ecuador.The towns with the closest growing climate to Montecristi are Playas, Ecuador (97% match), Machala and Santa Elena. About 34,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Manabí, Ecuador, Guayas, Ecuador and El Oro, Ecuador.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 384 mm rain

What grows in Montecristi →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇪🇨Manabí, Ecuador

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

  2. 2

    🇪🇨Guayas, Ecuador

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Playas (97), Posorja (88)

  3. 3

    🇪🇨El Oro, Ecuador

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huaquillas (97), Machala (95)

  4. 4

    🇵🇪Tumbes, Peru

    300 sq mi800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zarumilla (97), Tumbes (88)

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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    🇪🇨PlayasGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 419 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley

    97%match
  2. 2

    🇪🇨MachalaEl Oro, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 407 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    95%match
  3. 3

    🇪🇨Santa ElenaEcuador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 320 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato, coffee (arabica)

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇵🇪TumbesPeru

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 255 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    88%match
  5. 5

    🇪🇨Pedro CarboGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 938 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 23 great-fit crops

    85%match
  6. 6

    🇪🇨NaranjalGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,073 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    76%match
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    🇪🇨BalzarGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,343 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    72%match
  8. 8

    🇪🇨GuayaquilGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,262 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    64%match
  9. 9

    🇪🇨NaranjitoGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,698 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops

    45%match
  10. 10

    🇦🇴Porto AmboimKwanza Sul, Angola

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 614 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 23 great-fit crops

    41%match
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    🇦🇴LuandaAngola

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 710 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops

    40%match
  12. 12

    🇦🇴SumbeKwanza Sul, Angola

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 579 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 23 great-fit crops

    39%match
  13. 13

    🇪🇨El EmpalmeGuayas, Ecuador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops

    38%match
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    🇵🇪Tambo GrandePiura, Peru

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 135 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato

    38%match
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    🇪🇨PiñasEl Oro, Ecuador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,095 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, barley, potato

    38%match
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    🇪🇨BabahoyoLos Ríos, Ecuador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops

    38%match
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    🇦🇴ÚcuaBengo, Angola

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,018 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    37%match
  18. 18

    🇵🇪La BreitaPiura, Peru

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: barley, potato, coffee (arabica)

    34%match
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    🇪🇨VentanasLos Ríos, Ecuador

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,281 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 23 great-fit crops

    32%match
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    🇦🇴BenguelaAngola

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 531 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 23 great-fit crops

    32%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.