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Land with a climate like Walnut Creek

🇺🇸Walnut Creek, California, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Walnut Creek are Gilroy, United States (99% match), Los Gatos and San Vicente de Tagua Tagua. About 33,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.The towns with the closest growing climate to Walnut Creek are Gilroy, United States (99% match), Los Gatos and San Vicente de Tagua Tagua. About 84,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in California, United States, Valparaiso, Chile and Santiago Metropolitan, Chile.

Your growing climate

Zone 9b · 331 frost-free days · 628 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 331 frost-free days · 628 chill hours · 485 mm rain

What grows in Walnut Creek →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸California, United States

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Morgan Hill (99), Gilroy (99)

  2. 2

    🇨🇱Valparaiso, Chile

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

    For example Villa Alemana (85), Casablanca (84)

  3. 3

    🇨🇱Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Peñaflor (95), Padre Hurtado (94)

  4. 4

    🇨🇱O'Higgins Region, Chile

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example San Vicente de Tagua Tagua (93), Rengo (93)

  5. 5

    🇲🇦Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tiflet (79), Sidi Allal El Bahraoui (79)

  6. 6

    🇱🇾Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Al Bayḑā’ (80), Shahhat (78)

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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    🇺🇸GilroyCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 701 chill hours · 19 in rainZone 9b · 307 frost-free days · 701 chill hours · 473 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 33 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸Los GatosCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 657 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 657 chill hours · 607 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 33 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇨🇱San Vicente de Tagua Tagua↻Seasons flipped. O'Higgins Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 22 in rainZone 9b · 326 frost-free days · 632 chill hours · 553 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 33 great-fit crops

    93%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸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 22 of your 33 great-fit crops

    93%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇱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 30 of your 33 great-fit crops

    93%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸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 26 of your 33 great-fit crops

    92%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 16 of your 33 great-fit crops

    91%match
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    🇺🇸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 33 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, peanut

    89%match
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    🇨🇱Melipilla↻Seasons flipped. Santiago Metropolitan, Chile

    Zone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 324 chill hours · 17 in rainZone 10a · Frost 4 years in 10 · 324 chill hours · 425 mm rain

    Shares 31 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia, peanut

    88%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸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 25 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    86%match
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    🇺🇸MantecaCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 284 frost-free days · 848 chill hours · 309 mm rain

    Shares 32 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, peanut

    85%match
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    🇺🇸UkiahCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 9a · 233 frost-free days · 1,132 chill hours · 938 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 33 great-fit crops

    84%match
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    🇺🇸ClearlakeCalifornia, United States

    Zone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 28 in rainZone 8b · 212 frost-free days · 1,477 chill hours · 711 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 33 great-fit crops

    83%match
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    🇲🇦BenslimaneCasablanca-Settat, Morocco

    Zone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 16 in rainZone 10a · 352 frost-free days · 349 chill hours · 406 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, macadamia

    82%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 22 of your 33 great-fit crops

    82%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 25 of your 33 great-fit crops

    81%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 32 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, pistachio, macadamia

    80%match
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    🇺🇸TurlockCalifornia, United States

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 890 chill hours · 12 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 890 chill hours · 295 mm rain

    Shares 30 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: pistachio, peanut

    79%match
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    🇨🇱Machalí↻Seasons flipped. O'Higgins Region, Chile

    Zone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 481 chill hours · 24 in rainZone 9b · 332 frost-free days · 481 chill hours · 606 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 33 great-fit crops

    79%match
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    🇨🇱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 29 of your 33 great-fit crops · Also great there: macadamia

    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.