Climatch

Land with a climate like Imarichō-kō

🇯🇵Imarichō-kō, Saga, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Imarichō-kō are Kitakyushu, Japan (99% match), Nakatsu and Ōita. About 333,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hunan, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Imarichō-kō are Kitakyushu, Japan (99% match), Nakatsu and Ōita. About 862,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Hunan, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 278 frost-free days · 1,085 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 9a · 278 frost-free days · 1,085 chill hours · 1,832 mm rain

What grows in Imarichō-kō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    40k sq mi105k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (94), Wenling (92)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    39k sq mi101k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zhangjiajie (88), Wulingyuan (88)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    34k sq mi89k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (87), Enshi (87)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (86), New Bern (84)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fukuechō (98), Minamishimabara (98)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (97), Tsuruda (96)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iwata (98), Hamamatsu (97)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    3,700 sq mi9,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (79), Haenam (75)

  9. 9

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (98), Seogwipo (98)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    2,600 sq mi6,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chesapeake (87), Norfolk (87)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,200 sq mi3,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (82), Tongyeong (82)

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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    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵ŌitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 1,803 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵AsakuraFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,264 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,264 chill hours · 1,734 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵NagatoYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,100 chill hours · 1,637 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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
  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

    🇯🇵KikuchiKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,220 chill hours · 1,893 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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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    🇯🇵KumamotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,147 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,147 chill hours · 1,990 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵SaikiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵HamadaShimane, Japan

    Zone 9a · 278 frost-free days · 1,071 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 9a · 278 frost-free days · 1,071 chill hours · 1,643 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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

    98%match
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    🇰🇷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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵MinamishimabaraNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 2,169 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵GotōNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 89 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 2,269 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵IwataShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,075 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,075 chill hours · 2,027 mm rain

    Shares 20 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.