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Land with a climate like Santa Monica

🇺🇸Santa Monica, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Monica are San Diego, United States (95% match), Mission Viejo and Ventura. About 8,000 sq mi of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico.The towns with the closest growing climate to Santa Monica are San Diego, United States (95% match), Mission Viejo and Ventura. About 21,000 km² of land in 2 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico.

Your growing climate

Zone 10b · No frost · 25 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 25 chill hours · 290 mm rain

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Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Diego (95), Chula Vista (94)

  2. 2

    🇲🇽Baja California, Mexico

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

    For example Tijuana (91), Rosarito (89)

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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    🇺🇸San DiegoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10b · No frost · 66 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 66 chill hours · 254 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    95%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Mission ViejoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 228 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 10a · Frost 3 years in 10 · 228 chill hours · 303 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, olive, saffron

    91%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 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, almond, saffron

    90%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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: blueberry, almond, saffron

    90%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 26 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, saffron

    89%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 20 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, almond, cherry

    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 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: olive, blueberry, saffron

    82%match
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    🇪🇸AronaCanary Islands, Spain

    Zone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 5 chill hours · 299 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 26 great-fit crops

    74%match
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    🇲🇦AgadirSouss-Massa, Morocco

    Zone 10b · No frost · 42 chill hours · 7.1 in rainZone 10b · No frost · 42 chill hours · 181 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops

    73%match
  10. 10

    🇲🇦TiznitSouss-Massa, Morocco

    Zone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 61 chill hours · 5.3 in rainZone 10b · Frost 1 years in 10 · 61 chill hours · 135 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: sugarcane

    69%match
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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 17 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, almond, cherry

    67%match
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    🇪🇸Santa Cruz de TenerifeCanary Islands, Spain

    Zone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 11b · No frost · 0 chill hours · 286 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, sugarcane

    64%match
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    🇺🇸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 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, blueberry, cherry

    63%match
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    🇪🇸TíasCanary Islands, Spain

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 4.9 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 125 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, sugarcane

    62%match
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    🇪🇸TeldeCanary Islands, Spain

    Zone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 8.1 in rainZone 11a · No frost · 0 chill hours · 206 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: banana, sugarcane

    62%match
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    🇱🇾Al MarjLibya

    Zone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 315 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 10a · Frost 7 years in 10 · 315 chill hours · 393 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pecan, blueberry

    62%match
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    🇱🇾Al AbyārAl Marj, Libya

    Zone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 239 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 10a · Frost 5 years in 10 · 239 chill hours · 256 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, blueberry, cherry

    59%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 11 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, almond, saffron

    59%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 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pear, walnut

    59%match
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    🇱🇾ShahhatAl Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    Zone 9b · 339 frost-free days · 413 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 339 frost-free days · 413 chill hours · 470 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 26 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, pear, walnut

    58%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.