Climatch

Land with a climate like Hiji

🇯🇵Hiji, Oita, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hiji are Sasebo, Japan (99% match), Sanyōonoda and Kure. About 382,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hunan, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hiji are Sasebo, Japan (99% match), Sanyōonoda and Kure. About 990,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hunan, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,198 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,198 chill hours · 1,735 mm rain

What grows in Hiji →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    42k sq mi108k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (95), Ninghai (91)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    41k sq mi106k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (90), Zhangjiajie (87)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    38k sq mi98k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (89), Enshi (87)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (86), Elizabeth City (86)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    6,900 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (84), Haenam (82)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (99), Saikai (99)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (97), Tsuruda (96)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yawatahama (99), Shikokuchūō (99)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (88), Newport News (86)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (99), Jeju City (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (88), Tongyeong (86)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Poti (80), Zugdidi (79)

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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    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵ShūnanYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,351 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,351 chill hours · 1,793 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵ItoshimaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,024 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,024 chill hours · 1,627 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵NagasakiJapan

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 2,067 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju CityJeju-do, South Korea

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 1,673 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵ŌmutaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,197 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,197 chill hours · 1,739 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵TsushimaNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 1,927 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FukuokaJapan

    Zone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,007 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,007 chill hours · 1,615 mm rain

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

    98%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵MatsusakaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 1,882 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    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.