Climatch

Land with a climate like Jōsō

🇯🇵Jōsō, Ibaraki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Jōsō are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Takasaki and Minami-Alps. About 173,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Jeollanam-do, South Korea and Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Jōsō are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Takasaki and Minami-Alps. About 447,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Jeollanam-do, South Korea and Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,607 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,607 chill hours · 1,334 mm rain

What grows in Jōsō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (82), Guangshui (81)

  2. 2

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (91), Gwangyang (90)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    10,000 sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (87), Newport News (86)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (83), Lianghu (76)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    7,200 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miaoyu (84), Shanghuang (83)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (84), Suitland-Silver Hill (82)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (94), Hōjō (93)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oyama (99), Gotemba (99)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (93), Hikari (92)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (84), Greenville (78)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (93), Tongyeong (93)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (87), Tallang-dong (86)

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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    🇯🇵AiharaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,540 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,540 chill hours · 1,510 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵TakasakiGunma, Japan

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 1,258 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵Minami-AlpsYamanashi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 1,185 mm rain

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

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵FujiShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 1,713 mm rain

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

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵IwakiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KashiwaraNara, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 1,529 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵ChoshiChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,297 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,297 chill hours · 1,546 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵ŌtsuShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 1,545 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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

    95%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵Minami-SōmaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 1,284 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    94%match
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    🇰🇷BusanSouth Korea

    Zone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,730 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 8a · 251 frost-free days · 1,730 chill hours · 1,389 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵YokosukaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 9a · 279 frost-free days · 1,079 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 9a · 279 frost-free days · 1,079 chill hours · 1,740 mm rain

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

    94%match
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    🇯🇵OdawaraKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 1,684 mm rain

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

    94%match
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    🇰🇷GeojeGyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,759 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,759 chill hours · 1,587 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵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

    93%match
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    🇯🇵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 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    93%match
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    🇯🇵TsushimaNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 1,927 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵SōjaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 1,375 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵SasayamaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,884 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,884 chill hours · 1,497 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵HitachiIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 1,441 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%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.