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Land with a climate like Rio Rico

🇺🇸Rio Rico, Arizona, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rio Rico are Agua Prieta, Mexico (99% match), Magdalena de Kino and Nuevo Casas Grandes. About 81,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Arizona, United States, Sonora, Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rio Rico are Agua Prieta, Mexico (99% match), Magdalena de Kino and Nuevo Casas Grandes. About 210,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Arizona, United States, Sonora, Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,021 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,021 chill hours · 397 mm rain

What grows in Rio Rico →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Arizona, United States

    16k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Douglas (98), Tanque Verde (82)

  2. 2

    🇲🇽Sonora, Mexico

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Agua Prieta (99), Magdalena de Kino (95)

  3. 3

    🇲🇽Chihuahua, Mexico

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nuevo Casas Grandes (92), Ciudad Juárez (78)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸New Mexico, United States

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Las Cruces (83), Alamogordo (79)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Texas, United States

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

    For example Horizon City (80), Socorro (80)

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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    🇲🇽Agua PrietaSonora, Mexico

    Zone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 1,193 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 1,193 chill hours · 312 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, pear, wine grapes

    99%match
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    🇲🇽Magdalena de KinoSonora, Mexico

    Zone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 672 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 9a · 270 frost-free days · 672 chill hours · 400 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇲🇽Nuevo Casas GrandesChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,279 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,279 chill hours · 267 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, cherry, walnut

    92%match
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    🇲🇽CananeaSonora, Mexico

    Zone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 1,294 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 8b · 230 frost-free days · 1,294 chill hours · 524 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, cherry, pear

    89%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 22 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, cherry

    83%match
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    🇺🇸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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, pistachio

    79%match
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    🇺🇸MaranaArizona, United States

    Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 604 chill hours · 9.1 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 604 chill hours · 232 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    78%match
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    🇲🇽Ciudad JuárezChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,081 chill hours · 6.9 in rainZone 8a · 255 frost-free days · 1,081 chill hours · 175 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, cherry

    78%match
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    🇲🇽ChihuahuaMexico

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 869 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 869 chill hours · 326 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    72%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 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, cherry

    70%match
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    🇺🇸TucsonArizona, United States

    Zone 9a · 303 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 9a · 303 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 262 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    67%match
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    🇲🇽Ciudad DeliciasChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 9.8 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 248 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    66%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 21 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, wine grapes

    65%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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, pistachio

    65%match
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    🇿🇦De Aar↻Seasons flipped. Northern Cape, South Africa

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,062 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,062 chill hours · 314 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, wine grapes, pear

    61%match
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    🇲🇽Santa Rosalía de CamargoChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 639 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 639 chill hours · 275 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    61%match
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    🇺🇸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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, pistachio

    61%match
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    🇺🇸KingmanArizona, United States

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,027 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,027 chill hours · 220 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, pistachio, walnut

    60%match
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    🇲🇽Hidalgo del ParralChihuahua, Mexico

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 410 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, tea

    60%match
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    🇺🇸San Tan ValleyArizona, United States

    Zone 9a · 279 frost-free days · 572 chill hours · 9.0 in rainZone 9a · 279 frost-free days · 572 chill hours · 228 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    60%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.