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Land with a climate like San Marcos, California

🇺🇸San Marcos, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Marcos, California are Pórticos de San Antonio, Mexico (99% match), Glendale and Los Angeles. About 31,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Western Cape, South Africa and Baja California, Mexico.The towns with the closest growing climate to San Marcos, California are Pórticos de San Antonio, Mexico (99% match), Glendale and Los Angeles. About 80,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Western Cape, South Africa and Baja California, Mexico.

Your growing climate

Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 324 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 324 chill hours · 319 mm rain

What grows in San Marcos, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yorba Linda (99), La Habra (99)

  2. 2

    🇿🇦Western Cape, South Africa

    5,600 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Vredendal (85), Moorreesburg (76)

  3. 3

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa del Prado 2da Sección (99), Las Delicias (99)

  4. 4

    🇲🇦Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco

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

    For example Youssoufia (83), Echemmaia Est (81)

  5. 5

    🇲🇦Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

    2,500 sq mi6,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example El Gara (89), Settat (84)

  6. 6

    🇲🇦Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

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

    For example Khemisset (79), Tiflet (78)

  7. 7

    🇩🇿Aïn Témouchent, Algeria

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hammam Bou Hadjar (77), El Malah (74)

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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    🇲🇽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 28 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸GlendaleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 161 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 161 chill hours · 363 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇺🇸Los AngelesCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 108 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 108 chill hours · 356 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: coffee (arabica)

    96%match
  4. 4

    🇲🇽TecateBaja California, Mexico

    Zone 9b · 303 frost-free days · 532 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9b · 303 frost-free days · 532 chill hours · 329 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    95%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸IrvineCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 151 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 151 chill hours · 283 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops

    95%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸RiversideCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 345 frost-free days · 374 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 345 frost-free days · 374 chill hours · 294 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops

    94%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    92%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸CastaicCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 549 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 549 chill hours · 338 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    89%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 28 of your 28 great-fit crops

    88%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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 23 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    87%match
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    🇿🇦Vredendal↻Seasons flipped. Western Cape, South Africa

    Zone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 153 chill hours · 8.1 in rainZone 10a · Frost 1 years in 10 · 153 chill hours · 206 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 28 great-fit crops

    85%match
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    🇲🇦SettatCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 438 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 438 chill hours · 314 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    84%match
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    🇺🇸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 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    83%match
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    🇲🇦BerrechidCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 367 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 367 chill hours · 322 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    83%match
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    🇲🇦YoussoufiaMarrakesh-Safi, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 315 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9b · 344 frost-free days · 315 chill hours · 280 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    83%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 22 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    80%match
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    🇲🇦KhemissetRabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 333 frost-free days · 449 chill hours · 456 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pecan, cherry

    79%match
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    🇲🇦El AïounOriental, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 9b · 320 frost-free days · 598 chill hours · 264 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pear, walnut

    79%match
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    🇲🇦Imi-n-TanoutMarrakesh-Safi, Morocco

    Zone 9b · 311 frost-free days · 690 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9b · 311 frost-free days · 690 chill hours · 300 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pear, walnut

    78%match
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    🇲🇦TaourirtOriental, Morocco

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 257 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 257 chill hours · 220 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, cherry, pecan

    78%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.