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Land with a climate like Ayabe

🇯🇵Ayabe, Kyoto, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ayabe are Nagahama, Japan (99% match), Tottori-shi and Kanazawa. About 289,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Tennessee, United States, Kentucky, United States and North Carolina, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ayabe are Nagahama, Japan (99% match), Tottori-shi and Kanazawa. About 749,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Tennessee, United States, Kentucky, United States and North Carolina, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,757 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,757 chill hours · 1,666 mm rain

What grows in Ayabe →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    34k sq mi88k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallatin (86), Chattanooga (85)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Kentucky, United States

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Murray (86), Bowling Green (85)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (88), Garner (84)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (83), Deqing (78)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shibata (97), Agano (97)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (78), Biyang (77)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sayō (98), Tatsunochō-tominaga (96)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mine (96), Hagi (96)

  9. 9

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    2,300 sq mi6,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (76), Longfeng (75)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (86), Ora-dong (86)

  11. 11

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

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

    For example Zugdidi (92), Poti (86)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,600 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Samtredia (90), Kutaisi (88)

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

    🇯🇵NagahamaShiga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,694 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,694 chill hours · 1,783 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵Tottori-shiTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,589 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,589 chill hours · 1,807 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵KanazawaIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 1,938 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵YabaseTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 1,598 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵MatsueShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 1,443 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵MiyoshiHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 1,591 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵Ōdachō-ōdaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,580 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,580 chill hours · 1,689 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵KagaIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,800 chill hours · 2,061 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵Fukui-shiFukui, Japan

    Zone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,718 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,718 chill hours · 2,219 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵ToyamaJapan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,067 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,067 chill hours · 1,970 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵KōkaShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,702 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,702 chill hours · 1,556 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵TsuyamaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 1,460 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵NanaoIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,969 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,969 chill hours · 2,032 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵NiigataJapan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 1,838 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    96%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵GifuJapan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 1,853 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    95%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵EnaGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 1,942 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵TōonEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 1,744 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    94%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵TatsunoHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 1,316 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    94%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.