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Land with a climate like Santa Marta

🇨🇴Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Colombia

The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Marta are Malambo, Colombia (99% match), Los Puertos de Altagracia and Dabajuro. About 107,000 sq mi of land in 12 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zulia, Venezuela, Falcón, Venezuela and La Guajira Department, Colombia.The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Marta are Malambo, Colombia (99% match), Los Puertos de Altagracia and Dabajuro. About 277,000 km² of land in 12 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zulia, Venezuela, Falcón, Venezuela and La Guajira Department, Colombia.

Your growing climate

Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 674 mm rain

What grows in Santa Marta →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇻🇪Zulia, Venezuela

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santa Cruz de Mara (99), Los Puertos de Altagracia (99)

  2. 2

    🇻🇪Falcón, Venezuela

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dabajuro (98), Mene de Mauroa (94)

  3. 3

    🇨🇴La Guajira Department, Colombia

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maicao (96), Riohacha (96)

  4. 4

    🇹🇿Pwani, Tanzania

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ikwiriri (90), Mlandizi (84)

  5. 5

    🇨🇴Magdalena Department, Colombia

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sitionuevo (98), Fundación (94)

  6. 6

    🇮🇩East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maumere (85), Waingapu (84)

  7. 7

    🇹🇿Lindi, Tanzania

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kilwa Masoko (93), Lindi (82)

  8. 8

    🇨🇴Bolívar, Colombia

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cartagena (96), Santa Rosa (94)

  9. 9

    🇻🇳Dong Thap, Vietnam

    3,500 sq mi9,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hồng Ngự (84), Tràm Chim (83)

  10. 10

    🇻🇪Guárico, Venezuela

    3,200 sq mi8,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Valle de La Pascua (79), Tucupido (78)

  11. 11

    🇻🇳Lam Dong, Vietnam

    2,300 sq mi6,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Phan Thiết (86), Mui Ne (83)

  12. 12

    🇹🇭Phetchaburi, Thailand

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

    For example Khao Yoi (84), Cha-am (84)

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

  1. 1

    🇨🇴MalamboAtlántico, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 34 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 860 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇻🇪Los Puertos de AltagraciaZulia, Venezuela

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 620 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇻🇪DabajuroFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 26 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 657 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇴LuruacoAtlántico, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,056 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇴CartagenaBolívar, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 953 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    96%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇴MaicaoLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 608 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 13 great-fit crops

    96%match
  7. 7

    🇨🇴RiohachaLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 27 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 689 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇻🇪Tía JuanaZulia, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 30 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 763 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, table and raisin grapes

    95%match
  9. 9

    🇻🇪Mene de MauroaFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 35 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 891 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇴FundaciónMagdalena Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 984 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    94%match
  11. 11

    🇨🇴PivijayMagdalena Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,079 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    93%match
  12. 12

    🇹🇿Kilwa Masoko↻Seasons flipped. Lindi, Tanzania

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 842 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, sugarcane

    93%match
  13. 13

    🇨🇴San Juan del CesarLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    91%match
  14. 14

    🇻🇪Catia La MarVargas, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 33 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 842 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, table and raisin grapes, rice

    90%match
  15. 15

    🇨🇴San OnofreSucre Department, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,205 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    90%match
  16. 16

    🇹🇿Ikwiriri↻Seasons flipped. Pwani, Tanzania

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 919 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice, strawberry

    90%match
  17. 17

    🇻🇪CoroFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 23 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 593 mm rain

    Shares 9 of your 13 great-fit crops

    90%match
  18. 18

    🇻🇪Punto FijoFalcón, Venezuela

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 442 mm rain

    Shares 12 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, banana, sugarcane

    90%match
  19. 19

    🇨🇴HatonuevoLa Guajira Department, Colombia

    Zone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 13a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,070 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice

    89%match
  20. 20

    🇨🇴LoricaCórdoba, Colombia

    Zone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 13b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 1,258 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 13 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane, rice, banana

    89%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.