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Land with a climate like Kitakami

🇯🇵Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kitakami are Yamagata, Japan (99% match), Yonezawa and Aizu-Wakamatsu. About 303,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and Indiana, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kitakami are Yamagata, Japan (99% match), Yonezawa and Aizu-Wakamatsu. About 785,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and Indiana, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,793 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,793 chill hours · 1,322 mm rain

What grows in Kitakami →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    40k sq mi104k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Collinwood (91), Euclid (90)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    29k sq mi75k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Chester (90), Erie (90)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Indiana, United States

    27k sq mi69k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Michigan City (86), South Bend (85)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    7,700 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (85), Leamington (85)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hakodate (98), Hokuto (96)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ninohe (98), Kuji (95)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōdate (99), Takanosu (98)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

    1,200 sq mi3,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kosong (75), Gangneung (75)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    600 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (78), Belorechensk (76)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boseong (78), Hwasun (77)

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    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (57)

  12. 12

    🇷🇺Adygeya Republic, Russia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Maykop (80), Giaginskaya (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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    🇯🇵YamagataJapan

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 1,273 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, wine grapes

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵YonezawaYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 1,317 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan

    99%match
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    🇯🇵Aizu-WakamatsuFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,669 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,669 chill hours · 1,254 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, cotton

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵ŌsakiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

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

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵HakodateHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 1,305 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵AomoriJapan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ŌmachiNagano, Japan

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,795 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,795 chill hours · 1,176 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵HachinoheAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender

    98%match
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    🇯🇵TakayamaGifu, Japan

    Zone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 1,765 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵NoshiroAkita, Japan

    Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 1,430 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵TamuraFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 1,254 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵HanawaAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 1,491 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MutsuAomori, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 1,295 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵ShinjōYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 1,640 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵AkitaJapan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 1,633 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NikkōTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,605 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇯🇵KujiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    95%match
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    🇯🇵MiyakoIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 1,351 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇯🇵NumataGunma, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,369 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,369 chill hours · 1,494 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan

    94%match
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    🇺🇸New BedfordMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%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.