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Land with a climate like Shafter

🇺🇸Shafter, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shafter are Tulare, United States (98% match), Coalinga and Selma. About 43,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Homs, Syria and Rif-dimashq, Syria.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shafter are Tulare, United States (98% match), Coalinga and Selma. About 111,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Homs, Syria and Rif-dimashq, Syria.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 267 frost-free days · 914 chill hours · 6.1 in rainZone 9a · 267 frost-free days · 914 chill hours · 154 mm rain

What grows in Shafter →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    14k sq mi37k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lemoore (99), Hanford (99)

  2. 2

    🇸🇾Homs, Syria

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Qaryatayn (91), Tadmur (72)

  3. 3

    🇸🇾Rif-dimashq, Syria

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jayrūd (93), Dūmā (93)

  4. 4

    🇸🇾Aleppo, Syria

    2,900 sq mi7,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dayr Ḩāfir (83), Kabbasin (82)

  5. 5

    🇯🇴Karak, Jordan

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Karak City (78), ‘Izrā (77)

  6. 6

    🇯🇴Mafraq, Jordan

    1,500 sq mi3,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mafraq (87), Rukban (76)

  7. 7

    🇯🇴Zarqa, Jordan

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

    For example Az̧ Z̧ulayl (82), Zarqa (79)

  8. 8

    🇹🇲Ahal, Turkmenistan

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sarahs (76), Tejen (75)

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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    🇺🇸TulareCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 840 chill hours · 8.5 in rainZone 9a · 272 frost-free days · 840 chill hours · 216 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸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

    97%match
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    🇺🇸SelmaCalifornia, United States

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

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    96%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸MaderaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 946 chill hours · 10 in rainZone 9a · 260 frost-free days · 946 chill hours · 264 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇸🇾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

    93%match
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    🇸🇾DūmāRif-dimashq, Syria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,046 chill hours · 9.4 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,046 chill hours · 239 mm rain

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

    93%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸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

    92%match
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    🇺🇸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

    91%match
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    🇸🇾Al QaryataynHoms, Syria

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 4.8 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,158 chill hours · 123 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 32 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇯🇴MafraqJordan

    Zone 9a · 295 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 8.7 in rainZone 9a · 295 frost-free days · 731 chill hours · 222 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    87%match
  12. 12

    🇸🇾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

    86%match
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    🇺🇸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

    84%match
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    🇸🇾As SafīrahAleppo, Syria

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 9.9 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 988 chill hours · 252 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    82%match
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    🇸🇾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

    82%match
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    🇺🇿TirmizSurxondaryo Region, Uzbekistan

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,465 chill hours · 6.0 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,465 chill hours · 153 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 32 great-fit crops

    80%match
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    🇸🇾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

    80%match
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    🇮🇷SarakhsRazavi Khorasan, Iran

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,213 chill hours · 7.3 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,213 chill hours · 185 mm rain

    Shares 28 of your 32 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇯🇴AmmanJordan

    Zone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 752 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 752 chill hours · 301 mm rain

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

    79%match
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    🇺🇸LancasterCalifornia, United States

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,139 chill hours · 6.7 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,139 chill hours · 169 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 32 great-fit crops

    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.