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Land with a climate like Rancho Santa Margarita

🇺🇸Rancho Santa Margarita, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rancho Santa Margarita are Escondido, United States (99% match), Glendale and Pórticos de San Antonio. About 17,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Western Cape, South Africa.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rancho Santa Margarita are Escondido, United States (99% match), Glendale and Pórticos de San Antonio. About 44,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Western Cape, South Africa.

Your growing climate

Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 340 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 340 chill hours · 328 mm rain

What grows in Rancho Santa Margarita →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    9,700 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Poway (99), Rancho San Diego (99)

  2. 2

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

    3,600 sq mi9,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa del Prado 2da Sección (99), Las Delicias (99)

  3. 3

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

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

    For example Vredendal (81), Moorreesburg (67)

  4. 4

    🇲🇦Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

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

    For example El Gara (83), Ben Ahmed (80)

  5. 5

    🇲🇦Souss-Massa, Morocco

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tine Biougra (65), Oulad Barhil (61)

  6. 6

    🇲🇦Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Khemisset (75), Tiflet (71)

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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    🇺🇸EscondidoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 319 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 319 chill hours · 328 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 30 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸GlendaleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 161 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 161 chill hours · 363 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 30 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇲🇽Pórticos de San AntonioBaja California, Mexico

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 196 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 196 chill hours · 276 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 30 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇲🇽TecateBaja California, Mexico

    Zone 9b · 303 frost-free days · 532 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9b · 303 frost-free days · 532 chill hours · 329 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 30 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    95%match
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    🇺🇸CastaicCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 549 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 549 chill hours · 338 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    86%match
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    🇲🇽EnsenadaBaja California, Mexico

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 310 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 310 chill hours · 225 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 30 great-fit crops

    84%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸San JoseCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 349 frost-free days · 431 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · 349 frost-free days · 431 chill hours · 386 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, pear, kiwifruit

    81%match
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    🇿🇦Vredendal↻Seasons flipped. Western Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 153 chill hours · 8.1 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 153 chill hours · 206 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 30 great-fit crops

    81%match
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    🇲🇦SettatCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 438 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 438 chill hours · 314 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    79%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 23 of your 30 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    76%match
  14. 14

    🇲🇦YoussoufiaMarrakesh-Safi, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 315 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 315 chill hours · 280 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    76%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸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 28 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    76%match
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    🇲🇦Imi-n-TanoutMarrakesh-Safi, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 311 frost-free days · 690 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 311 frost-free days · 690 chill hours · 300 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    75%match
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    🇲🇦KhemissetRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 456 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, pear, kiwifruit

    75%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 22 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    75%match
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    🇺🇸HaywardCalifornia, United States

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

    Shares 25 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    74%match
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    🇲🇦Ben GuerirMarrakesh-Safi, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 398 chill hours · 9.4 in rainZone 9b · 329 frost-free days · 398 chill hours · 239 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 30 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan

    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.