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Land with a climate like Kainan

🇯🇵Kainan, Wakayama, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kainan are Awa, Japan (99% match), Kure and Yokkaichi. About 421,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Hunan, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kainan are Awa, Japan (99% match), Kure and Yokkaichi. About 1.1 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Hunan, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Kainan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    49k sq mi127k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (91), Yezhou (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    43k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (92), Zhangjiajie (88)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    39k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (95), Lianghu (92)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (90), Havelock (86)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (86), Haenam (85)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (93), East Hampton (93)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (98), Saikai (96)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (92), Tsuruda (92)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Hōjō (99)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (97), Seogwipo (97)

  11. 11

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    3,300 sq mi8,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (82), Arnold (78)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (86), Geoje (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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    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵KureHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,320 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,320 chill hours · 1,714 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵MatsusakaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 1,882 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 25 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 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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 25 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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    98%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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 25 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵InoKochi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,194 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,194 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 25 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵KisarazuChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,274 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,274 chill hours · 1,569 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 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.