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Land with a climate like San Mateo, California

🇺🇸San Mateo, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Mateo, California are Salinas, United States (98% match), Arroyo Grande and Quilpué. About 22,000 sq mi of land in 2 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 Mateo, California are Salinas, United States (98% match), Arroyo Grande and Quilpué. About 57,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 444 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 444 chill hours · 511 mm rain

What grows in San Mateo, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prunedale (99), Watsonville (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Villa Alemana (92), Quilpué (91)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

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

    For example Curacaví (86), Padre Hurtado (83)

  4. 4

    🇨🇱O'Higgins Region, Chile

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

    For example San Vicente de Tagua Tagua (79), Rengo (75)

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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    🇺🇸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 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, hemp, maize (corn)

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Arroyo GrandeCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 457 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 457 chill hours · 510 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    95%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: kiwifruit, hemp, tomato

    91%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸LompocCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 447 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 447 chill hours · 385 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, maize (corn), sunflower

    90%match
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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 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: hemp, sunflower, tomato

    86%match
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    🇨🇱San Antonio↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 183 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 183 chill hours · 398 mm rain

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

    85%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸Morgan HillCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 725 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 305 frost-free days · 725 chill hours · 479 mm rain

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

    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: kiwifruit, fig, avocado

    84%match
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    🇺🇸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, tomato, hemp

    84%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, fig, olive

    82%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 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, hemp, maize (corn)

    82%match
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    🇨🇱La Ligua↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 317 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 317 chill hours · 274 mm rain

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

    80%match
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    🇨🇱San Vicente de Tagua Tagua↻Seasons flipped. O'Higgins Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 553 mm rain

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

    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: hemp, kiwifruit, sunflower

    78%match
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    🇺🇸AtascaderoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 1,110 chill hours · 467 mm rain

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

    78%match
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    🇨🇱Llaillay↻Seasons flipped. Valparaiso, Chile

    Zone 9b · 316 frost-free days · 734 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 9b · 316 frost-free days · 734 chill hours · 275 mm rain

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

    71%match
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    🇨🇱Cauquenes↻Seasons flipped. Maule Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 331 frost-free days · 772 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 9b · 331 frost-free days · 772 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, kiwifruit, olive

    71%match
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    🇨🇱Constitución↻Seasons flipped. Maule Region, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 651 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 10a · Frost 6 years in 10 · 651 chill hours · 810 mm rain

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

    70%match
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    🇱🇾Al Bayḑā’Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 476 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 476 chill hours · 467 mm rain

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

    67%match
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    🇨🇱Los Vilos↻Seasons flipped. Coquimbo Region, Chile

    Zone 10b · No frost · 164 chill hours · 8.2 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 164 chill hours · 208 mm rain

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

    67%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.