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Land with a climate like Santa Maria, California

🇺🇸Santa Maria, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Maria, California are Santa Barbara, United States (98% match), Salinas and Ventura. About 14,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Valparaiso, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Maria, California are Santa Barbara, United States (98% match), Salinas and Ventura. About 37,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Baja California, Mexico and Valparaiso, Chile.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Santa Maria, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Isla Vista (99), Santa Barbara (98)

  2. 2

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ensenada (83), Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (83)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example La Cruz (84), La Calera (84)

  4. 4

    🇨🇱Coquimbo Region, Chile

    300 sq mi700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Illapel (64), Los Vilos (62)

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 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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, olive, sorghum

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸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 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia, sorghum

    94%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸SaratogaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 610 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 334 frost-free days · 610 chill hours · 558 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, fig

    89%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, pear, fig

    86%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸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 15 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, fig

    85%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 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, fig, citrus

    83%match
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    🇺🇸Laguna NiguelCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 241 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 241 chill hours · 292 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, fig, citrus

    82%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, table and raisin grapes, citrus

    81%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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    80%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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    78%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇱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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, kiwifruit, walnut

    78%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸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 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, macadamia, table and raisin grapes

    76%match
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    🇲🇽RosaritoBaja California, Mexico

    Zone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 8.8 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 116 chill hours · 224 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, fig, macadamia

    75%match
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    🇺🇸Paso RoblesCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 1,095 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 254 frost-free days · 1,095 chill hours · 365 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    74%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 15 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, fig, olive

    73%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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    71%match
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    🇺🇸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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, fig, citrus

    68%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸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 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: pear, walnut, kiwifruit

    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.