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Land with a climate like Santa Barbara, California

🇺🇸Santa Barbara, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Barbara, California are Santa Maria, United States (98% match), San Luis Obispo and Thousand Oaks. About 20,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Barbara, California are Santa Maria, United States (98% match), San Luis Obispo and Thousand Oaks. About 52,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Casablanca-Settat, Morocco.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Santa Barbara, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santa Maria (98), Nipomo (97)

  2. 2

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

    2,500 sq mi6,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pórticos de San Antonio (92), La Joya (92)

  3. 3

    🇲🇦Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Benslimane (83), Ad Darwa (80)

  4. 4

    🇱🇾Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Bayḑā’ (80), Shahhat (78)

  5. 5

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cabildo (82), Villa Alemana (79)

  6. 6

    🇲🇦Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ain El Aouda (80), Tamesna (79)

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 MariaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 521 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 521 chill hours · 429 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 26 great-fit crops

    98%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 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    92%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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    92%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸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 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, pear, kiwifruit

    92%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 20 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    91%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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    90%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 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    89%match
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    🇺🇸TorranceCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10b · No frost · 48 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 48 chill hours · 280 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, coffee (arabica), citrus

    88%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 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut

    88%match
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    🇺🇸OceansideCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 139 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 139 chill hours · 254 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸Long BeachCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10b · No frost · 73 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 73 chill hours · 290 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    87%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸Rancho Santa MargaritaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 340 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 340 chill hours · 328 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    86%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸Chino HillsCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · 348 frost-free days · 420 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · 348 frost-free days · 420 chill hours · 376 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    86%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 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    83%match
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    🇺🇸SanteeCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 245 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 245 chill hours · 276 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, cotton

    81%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 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, table and raisin grapes

    80%match
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    🇺🇸American CanyonCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 310 frost-free days · 773 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 9b · 310 frost-free days · 773 chill hours · 667 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, table and raisin grapes

    78%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 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, citrus, rice

    78%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 17 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, pear, walnut

    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.