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Land with a climate like San Francisco, El Salvador

🇸🇻San Francisco, Morazan, El Salvador

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Francisco, El Salvador are Sonsonate, El Salvador (98% match), Zacatecoluca and Cuilapa. About 64,000 sq mi of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chiapas, Mexico, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Preah Vihear, Cambodia.The towns with the closest growing climate to San Francisco, El Salvador are Sonsonate, El Salvador (98% match), Zacatecoluca and Cuilapa. About 165,000 km² of land in 17 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chiapas, Mexico, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Preah Vihear, Cambodia.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,040 mm rain

What grows in San Francisco, El Salvador →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇲🇽Chiapas, Mexico

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huixtla (80), Comalapa (80)

  2. 2

    🇨🇷Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nicoya (90), Liberia (85)

  3. 3

    🇰🇭Preah Vihear, Cambodia

    2,900 sq mi7,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tbeng Meanchey (79)

  4. 4

    🇨🇫Kémo, Central African Republic

    2,700 sq mi6,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dekoa (80), Sibut (80)

  5. 5

    🇬🇳Kindia, Guinea

    2,400 sq mi6,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kolenté (80), Télimélé (80)

  6. 6

    🇳🇮Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Somotillo (86), Chinandega (84)

  7. 7

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puerto San José (92), La Gomera (90)

  8. 8

    🇰🇭Ŏtâr Méanchey, Cambodia

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Anlong Veaeng (79), Samraong (65)

  9. 9

    🇹🇭Si Sa Ket, Thailand

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kantharalak (84), Si Sa Ket (76)

  10. 10

    🇹🇭Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

    2,000 sq mi5,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Det Udom (81), Phibun Mangsahan (78)

  11. 11

    🇭🇳Valle Department, Honduras

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

    For example San Lorenzo (78)

  12. 12

    🇨🇷Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puntarenas (84), Chacarita (81)

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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    🇸🇻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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇸🇻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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wheat

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇬🇹CuilapaSanta Rosa Department, Guatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,816 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wheat, cacao

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇸🇻Santa AnaSanta Ana Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,679 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇻San SalvadorSan Salvador Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,928 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    93%match
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    🇬🇹JutiapaGuatemala

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,434 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇬🇹Asunción MitaJutiapa, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,141 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, fig, wheat

    91%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇷NicoyaGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,016 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    90%match
  9. 9

    🇬🇹La GomeraEscuintla, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,006 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 15 great-fit crops

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇹GuastatoyaEl Progreso, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,144 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia

    89%match
  11. 11

    🇳🇮MateareManagua Department, Nicaragua

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

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, 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 15 great-fit crops

    86%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇷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 15 of your 15 great-fit crops

    85%match
  14. 14

    🇹🇭KantharalakSi Sa Ket, Thailand

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,515 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    84%match
  15. 15

    🇨🇷PuntarenasPuntarenas Province, Costa Rica

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

    Shares 14 of your 15 great-fit crops

    84%match
  16. 16

    🇳🇮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 15 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇳🇮MasayaMasaya Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    82%match
  18. 18

    🇨🇫DekoaKémo, Central African Republic

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,151 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia, wheat

    80%match
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    🇨🇫SibutKémo, Central African Republic

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,132 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 15 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    80%match
  20. 20

    🇲🇽HuixtlaChiapas, Mexico

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,167 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 15 great-fit crops

    80%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.