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Land with a climate like San Rafael Oriente

🇸🇻San Rafael Oriente, San Miguel Department, El Salvador

The towns with the closest growing climate to San Rafael Oriente are Sonsonate, El Salvador (98% match), Jalpatagua and San Salvador. About 61,000 sq mi of land in 14 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chiapas, Mexico, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Karnataka, India.The towns with the closest growing climate to San Rafael Oriente are Sonsonate, El Salvador (98% match), Jalpatagua and San Salvador. About 159,000 km² of land in 14 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chiapas, Mexico, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica and Karnataka, India.

Your growing climate

Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

What grows in San Rafael Oriente →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇲🇽Chiapas, Mexico

    6,300 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Comalapa (81), Venustiano Carranza (80)

  2. 2

    🇨🇷Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nicoya (90), Liberia (87)

  3. 3

    🇮🇳Karnataka, India

    3,200 sq mi8,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hāngal (81), Mundgod (81)

  4. 4

    🇳🇮Chinandega Department, Nicaragua

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chinandega (84), El Viejo (84)

  5. 5

    🇰🇭Preah Vihear, Cambodia

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tbeng Meanchey (76)

  6. 6

    🇬🇹Escuintla, Guatemala

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puerto San José (92), La Gomera (87)

  7. 7

    🇳🇮Managua Department, Nicaragua

    1,800 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mateare (91), Ciudad Sandino (90)

  8. 8

    🇹🇭Si Sa Ket, Thailand

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

    For example Kantharalak (81), Si Sa Ket (71)

  9. 9

    🇨🇷Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Puntarenas (86), Chacarita (80)

  10. 10

    🇬🇳Kindia, Guinea

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Télimélé (78), Kolenté (78)

  11. 11

    🇸🇻Usulutan, El Salvador

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

  12. 12

    🇭🇳Valle Department, Honduras

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Langue (91), San Lorenzo (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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    🇸🇻SonsonateSonsonate Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,793 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇬🇹JalpataguaJutiapa, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,556 mm rain

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

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇸🇻San SalvadorSan Salvador Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,928 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: wheat, canola (rapeseed), barley

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇸🇻MetapánSanta Ana Department, El Salvador

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,194 mm rain

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

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇬🇹GuazacapánSanta Rosa Department, Guatemala

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: cacao, banana, tea

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇬🇹Puerto San JoséEscuintla, Guatemala

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,553 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    92%match
  7. 7

    🇳🇮MateareManagua Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,435 mm rain

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

    91%match
  8. 8

    🇭🇳LangueValle Department, Honduras

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,855 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    91%match
  9. 9

    🇨🇷NicoyaGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 2,016 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    90%match
  10. 10

    🇬🇹GuastatoyaEl Progreso, Guatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,144 mm rain

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

    89%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇷LiberiaGuanacaste Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,971 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇨🇷PuntarenasPuntarenas Province, Costa Rica

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,824 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    86%match
  13. 13

    🇳🇮LeónLeón Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,620 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    85%match
  14. 14

    🇳🇮MasayaMasaya Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops

    85%match
  15. 15

    🇳🇮El ViejoChinandega Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,742 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    84%match
  16. 16

    🇳🇮SomotilloChinandega Department, Nicaragua

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    84%match
  17. 17

    🇹🇭KantharalakSi Sa Ket, Thailand

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,515 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops

    81%match
  18. 18

    🇲🇽ComalapaChiapas, Mexico

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,603 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: wheat, canola (rapeseed)

    81%match
  19. 19

    🇮🇳ShivamoggaKarnataka, India

    Zone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 12a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,050 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, wheat

    81%match
  20. 20

    🇬🇹ChiquimulaGuatemala

    Zone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 12b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 849 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, table and raisin grapes

    80%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.