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Land with a climate like Hikone

🇯🇵Hikone, Shiga, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hikone are Miyoshi, Japan (99% match), Matsue and Masuda. About 271,000 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 Hikone are Miyoshi, Japan (99% match), Matsue and Masuda. About 702,000 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 · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

What grows in Hikone →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (87), Deqing (82)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (89), Clayton (83)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    18k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (81), Biyang (79)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (94), Virginia Beach (93)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (80), Yezhou (80)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chattanooga (82), Cleveland (82)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (83), Mokpo (81)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (95), Saikai (95)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Niigata (94), Kameda-honchō (93)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (98), Ōzu (98)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Ara-dong (93), Ora-dong (93)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

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

    For example Zugdidi (90), Poti (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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    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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
  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 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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
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    🇯🇵MikuriyaTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,607 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,607 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵ToyotaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,873 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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

    97%match
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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 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵HimejiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KudamatsuYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 1,761 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NiimiOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 1,509 mm rain

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

    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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    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.