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Land with a climate like San Rafael, California

🇺🇸San Rafael, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Rafael, California are Santa Cruz, United States (95% match), Ukiah and Sunnyvale. About 19,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Maule Region, Chile and O'Higgins Region, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to San Rafael, California are Santa Cruz, United States (95% match), Ukiah and Sunnyvale. About 49,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Maule Region, Chile and O'Higgins Region, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 536 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 536 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

What grows in San Rafael, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santa Cruz (95), Live Oak (94)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Maule Region, Chile

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cauquenes (83), San Javier (82)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱O'Higgins Region, Chile

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Vicente de Tagua Tagua (83), Rengo (82)

  4. 4

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Casablanca (74), Villa Alemana (67)

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 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 16 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    95%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸UkiahCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 938 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, citrus, saffron

    90%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸SunnyvaleCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · 350 frost-free days · 460 chill hours · 426 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: tomato, maize (corn), soybean

    83%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇱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 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, table and raisin grapes, olive

    83%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 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, olive

    83%match
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    🇨🇱Talca↻Seasons flipped. Maule Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 290 frost-free days · 984 chill hours · 32 in rainZone 9b · 290 frost-free days · 984 chill hours · 807 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, olive

    82%match
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    🇺🇸San Luis ObispoCalifornia, United States

    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

    Shares 15 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron

    80%match
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    🇺🇸SeasideCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 378 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 10a · Frost 2 years in 10 · 378 chill hours · 701 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 21 great-fit crops

    79%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 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: maize (corn), sunflower, tomato

    79%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸ClearlakeCalifornia, United States

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron, table and raisin grapes

    78%match
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    🇨🇱Curicó↻Seasons flipped. Maule Region, Chile

    Zone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,150 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 265 frost-free days · 1,150 chill hours · 705 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: saffron, olive

    77%match
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    🇪🇸MijasAndalusia, Spain

    Zone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 674 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 674 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron, table and raisin grapes

    75%match
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    🇪🇸RondaAndalusia, Spain

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 887 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 887 chill hours · 707 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron, table and raisin grapes

    73%match
  14. 14

    🇲🇦ChefchaouenTanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 812 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 812 chill hours · 868 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, citrus, saffron

    73%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 15 of your 21 great-fit crops

    70%match
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    🇨🇱Coelemu↻Seasons flipped. Ñuble, Chile

    Zone 10a · 348 frost-free days · 678 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 10a · 348 frost-free days · 678 chill hours · 1,103 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 21 great-fit crops

    70%match
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    🇺🇸DixonCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 905 chill hours · 20 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 905 chill hours · 499 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, saffron, sunflower

    69%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 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, saffron, tomato

    68%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 17 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: sunflower, tomato, maize (corn)

    67%match
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    🇺🇸Granite BayCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 835 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9a · 282 frost-free days · 835 chill hours · 602 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, saffron, table and raisin grapes

    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.