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Land with a climate like Iwata

🇯🇵Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Iwata are Shingū, Japan (99% match), Tanabe and Uwajima. About 199,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Anhui, China and Fujian, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Iwata are Shingū, Japan (99% match), Tanabe and Uwajima. About 515,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Anhui, China and Fujian, China.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Iwata →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    32k sq mi83k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (90), Wenling (87)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    15k sq mi39k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongling (84), Chizhou (84)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Fujian, China

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fuding (78), Ningde (77)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (87), Elizabeth City (86)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (94), Tsuruda (94)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matsuura (98), Sasebo (98)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izunokuni (99), Numazu (99)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,200 sq mi8,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Seogwipo (94), Jeju City (94)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    2,900 sq mi7,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chesapeake (87), Norfolk (87)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example North Myrtle Beach (82), Myrtle Beach (82)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (69), Haenam (64)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (75), Tongyeong (75)

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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    🇯🇵ShingūWakayama, Japan

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 88 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 2,242 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵NumazuShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,159 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,159 chill hours · 1,766 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵NakamuraKochi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 892 chill hours · 91 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 892 chill hours · 2,322 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵OwaseMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵TosaKochi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,020 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,020 chill hours · 2,123 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵KamakuraKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,244 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,244 chill hours · 1,714 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵KochiJapan

    Zone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 949 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8b · 285 frost-free days · 949 chill hours · 2,115 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵ShimodaShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 303 frost-free days · 807 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 9a · 303 frost-free days · 807 chill hours · 1,890 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: avocado

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵IyoEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,577 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
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    🇯🇵YokohamaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 1,634 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%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 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
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    🇯🇵SaseboNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 1,954 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵NobeokaMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 853 chill hours · 89 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 853 chill hours · 2,251 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    98%match
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    🇯🇵MinamichitaAichi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 882 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 9a · 298 frost-free days · 882 chill hours · 1,755 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    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.