Climatch

Land with a climate like Kōshū

🇯🇵Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kōshū are Komagane, Japan (99% match), Nasushiobara and Imaichi. About 186,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Virginia, United States, Maryland, United States and West Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kōshū are Komagane, Japan (99% match), Nasushiobara and Imaichi. About 482,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Virginia, United States, Maryland, United States and West Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,310 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,310 chill hours · 1,293 mm rain

What grows in Kōshū →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    29k sq mi74k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Waynesboro (87), Staunton (86)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Reisterstown (89), Damascus (89)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Martinsburg (85), Beckley (84)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    7,400 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Luoping (82), Xinglong (82)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    6,900 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Songbai (89), Lichuan (77)

  6. 6

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cheongsong gun (87), Heunghae (85)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    6,100 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boseong (90), Hwasun (88)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ungsang (92), Naesŏ (90)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yabuki (99), Shirakawa (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Nagano, Japan

    3,600 sq mi9,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Komagane (99), Tatsuno (99)

  11. 11

    🇯🇵Ibaraki, Japan

    3,400 sq mi8,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Daigo (96), Kasama (94)

  12. 12

    🇨🇳Shaanxi, China

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shiquan (66), Pingli (63)

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

  1. 1

    🇯🇵KomaganeNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,383 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 209 frost-free days · 2,383 chill hours · 1,314 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵NasushiobaraTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 1,267 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵ImaichiTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,357 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,357 chill hours · 1,435 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵KōriyamaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 1,186 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, cotton, hops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵MatsumotoNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,494 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,494 chill hours · 1,000 mm rain

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

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    94%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KamaishiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,684 chill hours · 1,455 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    94%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵GeroGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 210 frost-free days · 2,496 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8a · 210 frost-free days · 2,496 chill hours · 1,874 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops

    94%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵NakatsugawaGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,109 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,109 chill hours · 1,835 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, cotton

    93%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵SendaiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 1,257 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, hops, pecan

    93%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, hops, peanut

    93%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵DateFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 2,200 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 223 frost-free days · 2,200 chill hours · 1,172 mm rain

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

    93%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, peanut

    92%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵IshinomakiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,420 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,420 chill hours · 1,131 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes, almond

    92%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, peanut

    92%match
  16. 16

    🇰🇷UngsangGyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    Zone 7b · 226 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 226 frost-free days · 2,176 chill hours · 1,323 mm rain

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

    92%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵MitoIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 1,417 mm rain

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

    92%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵NaganoJapan

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,389 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,389 chill hours · 1,081 mm rain

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

    91%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵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 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    90%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    90%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.