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Land with a climate like Bizen

🇯🇵Bizen, Okayama, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Bizen are Sandachō, Japan (99% match), Nabari and Minamiawaji. About 409,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and Chongqing, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Bizen are Sandachō, Japan (99% match), Nabari and Minamiawaji. About 1.1 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and Chongqing, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,746 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,746 chill hours · 1,390 mm rain

What grows in Bizen →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    41k sq mi105k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (90), Tuanbao (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    36k sq mi94k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (88), Gushu (86)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    30k sq mi77k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuxiang (91), Qinglong (90)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (87), Clayton (80)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (94), Sinan (93)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (91), Virginia Beach (90)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (87), Easton (85)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sandachō (99), Kimokawa (99)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (97), Mine (97)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Unzen (94), Minamishimabara (93)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Ara-dong (95), Ora-dong (95)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (91), Kyosai (91)

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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    🇯🇵SandachōHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 1,362 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵NabariMie, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵MinamiawajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵ShikokuchūōEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 1,738 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵YoshinogawaTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 1,840 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵BeppuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵KurayoshiTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,611 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵HagiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 1,760 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵GojōNara, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,436 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,436 chill hours · 1,570 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵ŌzuEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 1,799 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵MitoIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 1,417 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵KureHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,320 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,320 chill hours · 1,714 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵HashimotoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 1,552 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵MaibaraShiga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,696 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,696 chill hours · 1,661 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%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.