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Land with a climate like Selma, California

🇺🇸Selma, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Selma, California are Delano, United States (99% match), Merced and Modesto. About 84,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Şanlıurfa, Turkey and Aleppo, Syria.The towns with the closest growing climate to Selma, California are Delano, United States (99% match), Merced and Modesto. About 218,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Şanlıurfa, Turkey and Aleppo, Syria.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 268 frost-free days · 936 chill hours · 9.9 in rainZone 9a · 268 frost-free days · 936 chill hours · 252 mm rain

What grows in Selma, California →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    21k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Delano (99), Merced (99)

  2. 2

    🇹🇷Şanlıurfa, Turkey

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ceylanpınar (88), Birecik (85)

  3. 3

    🇸🇾Aleppo, Syria

    6,300 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kabbasin (94), Al Bāb (94)

  4. 4

    🇹🇲Ahal, Turkmenistan

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tejen (81), Sarahs (81)

  5. 5

    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tallbīsah (86), Homs (86)

  6. 6

    🇮🇷Razavi Khorasan, Iran

    4,300 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarakhs (84), Torbat-e Jām (81)

  7. 7

    🇸🇾Raqqa, Syria

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al-Tabqa (81), Ar Raqqah (73)

  8. 8

    🇺🇿Surxondaryo Region, Uzbekistan

    3,100 sq mi8,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sho‘rchi (85), Denov (84)

  9. 9

    🇹🇯Khatlon Province, Tajikistan

    1,900 sq mi4,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bokhtar (86), Vakhsh (85)

  10. 10

    🇺🇿Qashqadaryo, Uzbekistan

    1,600 sq mi4,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Qarshi (80), G‘uzor (80)

  11. 11

    🇮🇷Markazi, Iran

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sāveh (82), Māmūnīyeh (79)

  12. 12

    🇦🇫Faryab, Afghanistan

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Andkhoy (80), Maymana (60)

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

    🇺🇸DelanoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 883 chill hours · 7.1 in rainZone 9a · 269 frost-free days · 883 chill hours · 180 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸MercedCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 933 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 9a · 263 frost-free days · 933 chill hours · 318 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸ModestoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 726 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 726 chill hours · 303 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸CoalingaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 7.6 in rainZone 9a · 257 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 192 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 32 great-fit crops

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇸🇾Al BābAleppo, Syria

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,105 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,105 chill hours · 283 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 32 great-fit crops

    94%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸Los BanosCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 826 chill hours · 8.9 in rainZone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 826 chill hours · 225 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, hops

    93%match
  7. 7

    🇸🇾ManbijAleppo, Syria

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,180 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,180 chill hours · 293 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 32 great-fit crops

    93%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸StocktonCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 774 chill hours · 14 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 774 chill hours · 359 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, avocado, hops

    92%match
  9. 9

    🇸🇾As SalamīyahHama, Syria

    Zone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 270 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 273 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    92%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸BakersfieldCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 5.4 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 689 chill hours · 138 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: date palm

    91%match
  11. 11

    🇸🇾JayrūdRif-dimashq, Syria

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 6.5 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 164 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    90%match
  12. 12

    🇸🇾DamascusDamascus Governorate, Syria

    Zone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,030 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 8b · 266 frost-free days · 1,030 chill hours · 324 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    90%match
  13. 13

    🇹🇷CeylanpınarŞanlıurfa, Turkey

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,092 chill hours · 13 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,092 chill hours · 322 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 32 great-fit crops

    88%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸Yuba CityCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 21 in rainZone 9a · 290 frost-free days · 719 chill hours · 540 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 32 great-fit crops

    87%match
  15. 15

    🇸🇾As-SuwaydaSuwayda, Syria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,111 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,111 chill hours · 302 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    87%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸SacramentoCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 18 in rainZone 9b · 301 frost-free days · 682 chill hours · 454 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, avocado, hops

    87%match
  17. 17

    🇹🇷NizipGaziantep, Turkey

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,198 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,198 chill hours · 392 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 32 great-fit crops

    86%match
  18. 18

    🇹🇯BokhtarKhatlon Province, Tajikistan

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,295 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,295 chill hours · 278 mm rain

    Shares 29 of your 32 great-fit crops

    86%match
  19. 19

    🇸🇾HomsSyria

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 15 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 385 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    86%match
  20. 20

    🇸🇾Al ḨasakahAl-Hasakah, Syria

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 11 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,107 chill hours · 289 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 32 great-fit crops

    85%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.