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Land with a climate like Handa

🇯🇵Handa, Aichi, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Handa are Hiroshima, Japan (99% match), Hamamatsu and Matsuyama. About 283,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hubei, China and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Handa are Hiroshima, Japan (99% match), Hamamatsu and Matsuyama. About 732,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hubei, China and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,313 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,313 chill hours · 1,804 mm rain

What grows in Handa →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    33k sq mi86k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (92), Xiaoshan (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    29k sq mi76k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (86), Longfeng (85)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    28k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongling (87), Lucheng (87)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (90), Havelock (87)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (98), Matsuura (97)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chesapeake (92), Norfolk (92)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haramachi (99), Matsuyama (99)

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    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwakuni (99), Kudamatsu (99)

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    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    4,400 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (83), Gwangyang (80)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (95), Seogwipo (94)

  11. 11

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    2,500 sq mi6,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example North Myrtle Beach (84), Socastee (83)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (85), Geoje (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

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    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

    🇯🇵HamamatsuShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 1,939 mm rain

    Shares 19 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

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵UwajimaEhime, Japan

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 1,912 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵TokushimaJapan

    Zone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,070 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,070 chill hours · 1,619 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵TanabeWakayama, Japan

    Zone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,043 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,043 chill hours · 1,935 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
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    🇯🇵MinatoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 1,347 mm rain

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

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵YanaiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 1,680 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 22 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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
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    🇯🇵FujiedaShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 86 in rainZone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 2,194 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
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    🇯🇵YokkaichiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,276 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,276 chill hours · 1,659 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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
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    🇯🇵OwaseMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
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    🇯🇵ShizuokaJapan

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 2,094 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
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    🇯🇵TokyoJapan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,253 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,253 chill hours · 1,492 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵YokohamaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 1,634 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵KobeHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,312 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,312 chill hours · 1,266 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, fig

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 22 of your 22 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ShingūWakayama, Japan

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 88 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 2,242 mm rain

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

    98%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.