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Land with a climate like Hiratachō

🇯🇵Hiratachō, Shimane, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Hiratachō are Tottori-shi, Japan (99% match), Masuda and Maizuru. About 409,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Zhejiang, China and Tennessee, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Hiratachō are Tottori-shi, Japan (99% match), Masuda and Maizuru. About 1.1 million km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Zhejiang, China and Tennessee, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,493 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,493 chill hours · 1,519 mm rain

What grows in Hiratachō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (94), Havelock (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    30k sq mi79k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (89), Haining (85)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    30k sq mi78k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chattanooga (86), Cleveland (85)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    23k sq mi59k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (84), Xuancheng (82)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (83), Zhangjiajie (78)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Alabama, United States

    14k sq mi36k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Athens (84), Albertville (84)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Saikai (94), Sasebo (94)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Niigata (96), Kameda-honchō (94)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōzu (97), Tōon (97)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (80), Sinan (79)

  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 (94), Poti (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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    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    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

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵TanbaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 1,543 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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
  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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵HatsukaichiHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,822 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  13. 13

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

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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
  15. 15

    🇺🇸Virginia BeachVirginia, United States

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 1,221 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, wine grapes, olive

    96%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵EchizenFukui, Japan

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 86 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,780 chill hours · 2,187 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵HitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 1,792 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵NiigataJapan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,995 chill hours · 1,838 mm rain

    Shares 22 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.