Climatch

Land with a climate like Gōtsuchō

🇯🇵Gōtsuchō, Shimane, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Gōtsuchō are Matsue, Japan (99% match), Tottori-shi and Yabase. About 293,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Gōtsuchō are Matsue, Japan (99% match), Tottori-shi and Yabase. About 758,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,376 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,376 chill hours · 1,664 mm rain

What grows in Gōtsuchō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    32k sq mi83k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (90), Lianghu (84)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    23k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (92), Havelock (89)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (82), Biyang (81)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (83), Zhangjiajie (78)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (95), Newport News (94)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Georgia, United States

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Marietta (84), Canton (84)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (97), Saikai (97)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōzu (98), Yawatahama (98)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (91), Isa (91)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (78), Sinan (77)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Ara-dong (96), Ora-dong (96)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

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

    For example Zugdidi (93), Poti (92)

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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    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    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 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵ŌgakiGifu, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,465 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,465 chill hours · 1,792 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵TsurugaFukui, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,560 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,560 chill hours · 2,168 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵MaizuruKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 1,748 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵KyotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,563 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵SaseboNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 1,954 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%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 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵ToyookaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 1,901 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 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.