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Land with a climate like Puntarenas

🇨🇷Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

The towns with the closest growing climate to Puntarenas are Liberia, Costa Rica (99% match), Mateare and La Libertad. About 64,000 sq mi of land in 14 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Chinandega Department, Nicaragua.The towns with the closest growing climate to Puntarenas are Liberia, Costa Rica (99% match), Mateare and La Libertad. About 167,000 km² of land in 14 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Chinandega Department, Nicaragua.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,824 mm rain

What grows in Puntarenas →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇩East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kupang (81), Lewoleba (81)

  2. 2

    🇨🇷Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Liberia (99)

  3. 3

    🇳🇮Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

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

    For example Corinto (90), Chinandega (89)

  4. 4

    🇰🇭Preah Vihear, Cambodia

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tbeng Meanchey (78)

  5. 5

    🇳🇮Managua Department, Nicaragua

    2,300 sq mi6,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mateare (93), Ciudad Sandino (92)

  6. 6

    🇳🇮Rivas Department, Nicaragua

    2,100 sq mi5,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rivas (90)

  7. 7

    🇰🇭Siem Reap, Cambodia

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

    For example Siem Reap (81), Yeang (77)

  8. 8

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

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

    For example Puerto San José (92), La Gomera (85)

  9. 9

    🇨🇷Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

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

  10. 10

    🇻🇳Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam

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

    For example Cần Giờ (84), Ấp Phước Tĩnh (82)

  11. 11

    🇨🇴Atlántico, Colombia

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

    For example Repelón (87), Baranoa (83)

  12. 12

    🇰🇭Stung Treng, Cambodia

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stung Treng (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

  1. 1

    🇨🇷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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: strawberry

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇮MateareManagua Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,435 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, strawberry, fig

    93%match
  3. 3

    🇸🇻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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, strawberry

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇬🇹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 14 great-fit crops

    92%match
  5. 5

    🇳🇮ManaguaManagua Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,674 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: strawberry

    91%match
  6. 6

    🇳🇮RivasRivas Department, Nicaragua

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

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, strawberry

    90%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇹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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao, banana, tea

    90%match
  8. 8

    🇳🇮LeónLeón Department, Nicaragua

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

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    90%match
  9. 9

    🇸🇻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 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇳🇮El ViejoChinandega Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,742 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    89%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇴RepelónAtlántico, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,147 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇳🇮SomotilloChinandega Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops

    87%match
  13. 13

    🇸🇻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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: strawberry

    86%match
  14. 14

    🇸🇻ZacatecolucaLa Paz Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,084 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, strawberry, wheat

    86%match
  15. 15

    🇸🇻SonsonateSonsonate Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,793 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: strawberry, macadamia

    85%match
  16. 16

    🇮🇳MangaluruKarnataka, India

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 121 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,068 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 14 great-fit crops

    83%match
  17. 17

    🇰🇭Siem ReapCambodia

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,342 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    81%match
  18. 18

    🇮🇩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 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, fig

    81%match
  19. 19

    🇮🇩Lewoleba↻Seasons flipped. East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,130 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    81%match
  20. 20

    🇻🇳La GiLam Dong, Vietnam

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,631 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 14 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    81%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.