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Land with a climate like Ikaruga

🇯🇵Ikaruga, Hyōgo, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ikaruga are Kurashiki, Japan (99% match), Fukuyama and Yokkaichi. About 490,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ikaruga are Kurashiki, Japan (99% match), Fukuyama and Yokkaichi. About 1.3 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,585 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,585 chill hours · 1,327 mm rain

What grows in Ikaruga →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    57k sq mi147k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (91), Longfeng (89)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (92), Garner (86)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (90), Wuhu (89)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    36k sq mi93k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (91), Zhangjiajie (85)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (95), East Hampton (94)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hendersonville (82), La Vergne (82)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (92), Mokpo (92)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shimabara (93), Minamishimabara (93)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Hōjō (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (99), Yamaguchi (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Ara-dong (94), Ora-dong (94)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (89), Kyosai (89)

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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    🇯🇵KurashikiOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,487 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,487 chill hours · 1,387 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵FukuyamaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵KameokaKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,864 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,864 chill hours · 1,487 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵AwaTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,669 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KainanWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 1,518 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  11. 11

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

    98%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 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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

    98%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 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵HikoneShiga, Japan

    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

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KurayoshiTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,668 chill hours · 1,611 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵IkedachōTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,736 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,736 chill hours · 1,818 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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

    97%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.