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Land with a climate like Rio Rancho

🇺🇸Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rio Rancho are Clovis, United States (90% match), Farmington and Roswell. About 158,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Mexico, United States, Texas, United States and Arizona, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rio Rancho are Clovis, United States (90% match), Farmington and Roswell. About 409,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New Mexico, United States, Texas, United States and Arizona, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 188 frost-free days · 2,054 chill hours · 8.4 in rainZone 7b · 188 frost-free days · 2,054 chill hours · 213 mm rain

What grows in Rio Rancho →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸New Mexico, United States

    38k sq mi99k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Clovis (90), Farmington (90)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hereford (86), Dumas (82)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Arizona, United States

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prescott Valley (77), Prescott (73)

  4. 4

    🇿🇦Northern Cape, South Africa

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example De Aar (65)

  5. 5

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

  6. 6

    🇲🇦Fes-Meknes, Morocco

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

  7. 7

    🇲🇦Beni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Midelt (74), Boumia (66)

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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    🇺🇸ClovisNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 1,928 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 7b · 198 frost-free days · 1,928 chill hours · 378 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, peanut, pistachio

    90%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸FarmingtonNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 2,558 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 6b · 164 frost-free days · 2,558 chill hours · 195 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    90%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸RoswellNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 279 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pistachio, table and raisin grapes

    88%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸HerefordTexas, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,050 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,050 chill hours · 377 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut

    86%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸AlamogordoNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 8.0 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 202 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, table and raisin grapes, peanut

    84%match
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    🇺🇸PuebloColorado, United States

    Zone 7a · 165 frost-free days · 2,447 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7a · 165 frost-free days · 2,447 chill hours · 285 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    84%match
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    🇺🇸DumasTexas, United States

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 2,120 chill hours · 406 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut

    82%match
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    🇺🇸Grand JunctionColorado, United States

    Zone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 7.7 in rainZone 6b · 172 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 195 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    81%match
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    🇺🇸AmarilloTexas, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 1,958 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 1,958 chill hours · 443 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, table and raisin grapes, pistachio

    79%match
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    🇺🇸Las CrucesNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 7.8 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 198 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, peanut, cotton

    78%match
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    🇺🇸CarlsbadNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, peanut, cotton

    77%match
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    🇺🇸Prescott ValleyArizona, United States

    Zone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 8a · 198 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 433 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, pistachio

    77%match
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    🇦🇷Perdriel↻Seasons flipped. Mendoza, Argentina

    Zone 8b · 241 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 8.3 in rainZone 8b · 241 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 212 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, kiwifruit, olive

    76%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸Cañon CityColorado, United States

    Zone 7a · 160 frost-free days · 2,502 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 7a · 160 frost-free days · 2,502 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    76%match
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    🇺🇸HobbsNew Mexico, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,399 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,399 chill hours · 349 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, table and raisin grapes, peanut

    75%match
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    🇲🇦MideltBeni Mellal-Khenifra, Morocco

    Zone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,530 chill hours · 6.8 in rainZone 8a · 236 frost-free days · 1,530 chill hours · 173 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, kiwifruit, pistachio

    74%match
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    🇺🇸PlainviewTexas, United States

    Zone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 1,766 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 7b · 218 frost-free days · 1,766 chill hours · 455 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pistachio, table and raisin grapes

    72%match
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    🇺🇸Horizon CityTexas, United States

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,347 chill hours · 7.2 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 1,347 chill hours · 184 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, peanut, cotton

    71%match
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    🇦🇷Tunuyán↻Seasons flipped. Mendoza, Argentina

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,529 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 1,529 chill hours · 260 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, tea, kiwifruit

    71%match
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    🇺🇸PaysonArizona, United States

    Zone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 8a · 189 frost-free days · 1,795 chill hours · 481 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    71%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.