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Land with a climate like Kochi, Japan

🇯🇵Kochi, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kochi, Japan are Nakamura, Japan (99% match), Uwajima and Hamamatsu. About 145,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kochi, Japan are Nakamura, Japan (99% match), Uwajima and Hamamatsu. About 376,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Kochi, Japan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    25k sq mi64k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lishui (88), Zhuji (86)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pengze (84), Jingdezhen (81)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (84), Caohe (82)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Matsuura (95), Sasebo (94)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kagoshima (93), Shibushi (91)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (83), Wilmington (82)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hamamatsu (99), Iwata (99)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (88), Jeju City (87)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chesapeake (83), Norfolk (83)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (63), Gwangyang (59)

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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    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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
  3. 3

    🇯🇵HamamatsuShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,097 chill hours · 1,939 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ShizuokaJapan

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,044 chill hours · 2,094 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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

    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

    97%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

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MiyazakiJapan

    Zone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 727 chill hours · 99 in rainZone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 727 chill hours · 2,524 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵TsuMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 1,731 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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

    96%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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NagoyaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 1,865 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵KōtaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,849 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵ShimaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,157 chill hours · 2,170 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%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 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵MinatoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 1,347 mm rain

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

    96%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.