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Land with a climate like San Luis Obispo

🇺🇸San Luis Obispo, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Luis Obispo are Santa Barbara, United States (96% match), Soledad and Salinas. About 18,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to San Luis Obispo are Santa Barbara, United States (96% match), Soledad and Salinas. About 47,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in San Luis Obispo →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇺🇸California, United States

    16k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saratoga (96), Santa Barbara (96)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

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

    For example Cabildo (81), Villa Alemana (79)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

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

    For example Peñaflor (80), Curacaví (80)

  4. 4

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa del Prado 2da Sección (78), Las Delicias (78)

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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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, tomato

    96%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, walnut, tomato

    95%match
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    🇺🇸SalinasCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 522 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 522 chill hours · 407 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, walnut, hemp

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado, tomato, maize (corn)

    92%match
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    🇺🇸RichmondCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 409 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 409 chill hours · 757 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, pecan, avocado

    89%match
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    🇺🇸OaklandCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 254 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 254 chill hours · 597 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, pecan

    89%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 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, hemp, maize (corn)

    88%match
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    🇺🇸Santa CruzCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 347 frost-free days · 666 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 10a · 347 frost-free days · 666 chill hours · 754 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit

    87%match
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    🇺🇸FairfieldCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 782 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 782 chill hours · 536 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, olive, walnut

    85%match
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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tea, avocado

    84%match
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    🇺🇸Santa RosaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 298 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 298 frost-free days · 832 chill hours · 822 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, avocado

    83%match
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    🇨🇱Cabildo↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10a · 355 frost-free days · 536 chill hours · 10.0 in rainZone 10a · 355 frost-free days · 536 chill hours · 253 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, hemp

    81%match
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    🇨🇱Talagante↻Seasons flipped. Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    Zone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 537 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 9b · 338 frost-free days · 537 chill hours · 403 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, hemp, kiwifruit

    79%match
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    🇨🇱Santiago↻Seasons flipped. Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    Zone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9b · 302 frost-free days · 856 chill hours · 372 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, hemp, kiwifruit

    79%match
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    🇲🇽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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tomato, table and raisin grapes

    78%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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, tea, table and raisin grapes

    76%match
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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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, tomato, maize (corn)

    75%match
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    🇨🇱Quilpué↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 352 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 352 chill hours · 375 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, kiwifruit, hemp

    74%match
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    🇨🇱Los Andes↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 952 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9b · 286 frost-free days · 952 chill hours · 346 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, hemp, kiwifruit

    73%match
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    🇲🇦BenslimaneCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 406 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, sunflower

    73%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.