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Land with a climate like Honchō

🇯🇵Honchō, Hokkaido, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Honchō are Mutsu, Japan (99% match), Hachinohe and Shiraoi. About 175,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hokkaido, Japan, Ontario, Canada and Pennsylvania, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Honchō are Mutsu, Japan (99% match), Hachinohe and Shiraoi. About 454,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hokkaido, Japan, Ontario, Canada and Pennsylvania, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 201 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 201 frost-free days · 3,035 chill hours · 1,319 mm rain

What grows in Honchō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shiraoi (96), Ishikari (95)

  2. 2

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Port Colborne (86), Fort Erie (84)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Erie (89), Scranton (80)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oswego (87), Buffalo (86)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    8,500 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ashtabula (86), Painesville (84)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ninohe (98), Shizukuishi (96)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Semboku (96), Hanawa (95)

  8. 8

    🇨🇦Nova Scotia, Canada

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Halifax (76), Dartmouth (76)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Abkhazia, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇯🇵MutsuAomori, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 1,295 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵HachinoheAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, sorghum, lavender

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵ShiraoiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,211 chill hours · 1,168 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    96%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵TakizawaIwate, Japan

    Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,054 chill hours · 1,323 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, rice

    96%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵HanawaAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 1,491 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, rice

    95%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵AomoriJapan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇯🇵SapporoHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,168 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,168 chill hours · 1,234 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, wine grapes

    94%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵KujiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, sorghum

    94%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵RumoiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,339 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,339 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵Aizu-misato MachiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 1,379 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, rice

    93%match
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    🇯🇵YoichiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,278 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 3,278 chill hours · 1,331 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NakashibetsuHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 3,169 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 3,169 chill hours · 1,063 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NikkōTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,605 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    91%match
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    🇯🇵Shizunai-furukawachōHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 1,036 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender

    91%match
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    🇯🇵MiyakoIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 1,351 mm rain

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

    90%match
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    🇯🇵WakkanaiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,394 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,394 chill hours · 1,062 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes

    90%match
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    🇯🇵NoshiroAkita, Japan

    Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 1,430 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, rice

    89%match
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    🇯🇵ShinjōYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 1,640 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum, rice

    89%match
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    🇯🇵KamaishiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 1,455 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: sorghum

    89%match
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    🇺🇸EriePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 1,053 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender, sorghum

    89%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.