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Land with a climate like San José, Costa Rica

🇨🇷San José, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica

The towns with the closest growing climate to San José, Costa Rica are Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua (99% match), Rama and Scarborough. About 988,000 sq mi of land in 45 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Sabah, Malaysia and South Sumatra, Indonesia.The towns with the closest growing climate to San José, Costa Rica are Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua (99% match), Rama and Scarborough. About 2.6 million km² of land in 45 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Sabah, Malaysia and South Sumatra, Indonesia.

Your growing climate

Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 109 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,768 mm rain

What grows in San José, Costa Rica →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇮🇩Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kualakapuas (85), Pangkalanbuun (84)

  2. 2

    🇲🇾Sabah, Malaysia

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Donggongon (94), Kinarut (94)

  3. 3

    🇮🇩South Sumatra, Indonesia

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Baturaja (86), Indralaya (85)

  4. 4

    🇮🇩Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bungku (91), Poso (90)

  5. 5

    🇵🇭Mimaropa, Philippines

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jose Rizal (86), Romblon (86)

  6. 6

    🇻🇪Bolívar, Venezuela

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Dorado (83), Tumeremo (82)

  7. 7

    🇨🇴Antioquia, Colombia

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Pedro de Urabá (90), Turbo (87)

  8. 8

    🇳🇮North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puerto Cabezas (97), Siuna (97)

  9. 9

    🇵🇭Calabarzon, Philippines

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pangil (86), Paete (86)

  10. 10

    🇳🇮South Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nueva Guinea (99), Rama (99)

  11. 11

    🇵🇭Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines

    9,500 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dapitan (84), Dipolog (84)

  12. 12

    🇲🇽Tabasco, Mexico

    9,100 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huimanguillo (83), Río de Teapa (83)

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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    🇳🇮Nueva GuineaSouth Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 102 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,586 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇳🇮RamaSouth Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 116 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,955 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇹🇹ScarboroughTobago, Trinidad and Tobago

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,276 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇳🇮Puerto CabezasNorth Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 104 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,650 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇳🇮SiunaNorth Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,283 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇳🇮BluefieldsSouth Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 128 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,246 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇹🇹ChaguanasTrinidad and Tobago

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,002 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇬🇹Puerto BarriosIzabal Department, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 104 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,633 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    95%match
  9. 9

    🇵🇦DavidChiriquí Province, Panama

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 105 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,664 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇶Fort-de-FranceMartinique, Martinique

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,018 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    94%match
  11. 11

    🇬🇹El EstorIzabal Department, Guatemala

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 104 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,632 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    94%match
  12. 12

    🇬🇩Saint George'sSaint George Parish, Grenada

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,875 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    94%match
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    🇮🇩Tual↻Seasons flipped. Maluku, Indonesia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 109 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,763 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops

    93%match
  14. 14

    🇧🇿Belize CityBelize District, Belize

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,710 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    93%match
  15. 15

    🇱🇨Gros IsletGros-Islet, Saint Lucia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,062 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    93%match
  16. 16

    🇮🇩Dobo↻Seasons flipped. Maluku, Indonesia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 101 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,572 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    93%match
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    🇵🇦ChanguinolaBocas del Toro Province, Panama

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 133 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,383 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 17 great-fit crops

    93%match
  18. 18

    🇭🇳IrionaColón Department, Honduras

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 118 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 3,005 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 17 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇩🇲RoseauSaint George Parish, Dominica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,991 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    93%match
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    🇭🇳Puerto CortezCortés Department, Honduras

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 92 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,328 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, avocado

    93%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.