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Land with a climate like Arao

🇯🇵Arao, Kumamoto, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Arao are Iizuka, Japan (99% match), Ōita and Matsuyama. About 506,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Arao are Iizuka, Japan (99% match), Ōita and Matsuyama. About 1.3 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,233 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,233 chill hours · 1,731 mm rain

What grows in Arao →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    65k sq mi168k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (93), Zhangjiajie (92)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    49k sq mi126k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pengze (90), Pingxiang (86)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    47k sq mi121k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (91), Daye (90)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    20k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (91), Elizabeth City (89)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (84), Yeosu (84)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matsuura (96), Gotō (95)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,600 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (99), Tsuruda (99)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (90), Virginia Beach (90)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matsuyama (99), Hōjō (99)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example North Myrtle Beach (86), Myrtle Beach (85)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (96), Gaigeturi (96)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (84), Sinhyeon (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

    🇯🇵IizukaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 1,699 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵ŌitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 1,803 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵MatsuyamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 1,595 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, citrus

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵SanyōonodaYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,261 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,261 chill hours · 1,621 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cherry

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵KitakyushuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵IzumiKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 2,213 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵HiroshimaJapan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 1,856 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵YamaguchiJapan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 1,779 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵IwakuniYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,154 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,154 chill hours · 1,665 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cherry

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵NiihamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 1,607 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, citrus

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵ShidoKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 1,493 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵MitoyoKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,422 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,422 chill hours · 1,475 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵SaikiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FukuyamaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇨🇳ĀnwénZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 1,354 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, fig

    98%match
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    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MiyakonojōMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 98 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 2,498 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 22 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵HimejiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    97%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.