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Land with a climate like Kuji

🇯🇵Kuji, Iwate, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Kuji are Tamura, Japan (99% match), Kamaishi and Nikkō. About 171,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Pennsylvania, United States, Hokkaido, Japan and West Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Kuji are Tamura, Japan (99% match), Kamaishi and Nikkō. About 442,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Pennsylvania, United States, Hokkaido, Japan and West Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Kuji →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Erie (84), Johnstown (80)

  2. 2

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    10k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hakodate (97), Hokuto (96)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    9,500 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Beckley (84), Weirton Heights (80)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    8,800 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Willoughby (83), Mentor (83)

  5. 5

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example St. Catharines (79), Port Colborne (78)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yamada (99), Kamaishi (99)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kita-Akita (88), Takanosu (88)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinglong (80), Jianshan (66)

  9. 9

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

    3,100 sq mi8,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kosong (82), Sokcho (79)

  10. 10

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    1,500 sq mi4,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Songbai (84), Lichuan (69)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

    1,000 sq mi2,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taesal-li (78), Seosan (77)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Changsu (81), Imsil (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

  1. 1

    🇯🇵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: rice

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵ToyotaAomori, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,932 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,932 chill hours · 1,216 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵IchinosekiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 1,267 mm rain

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

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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
  8. 8

    🇯🇵ShirakawaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 1,249 mm rain

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

    96%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice, almond, lavender

    96%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵Aizu-misato MachiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 1,379 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    95%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵KaruizawaNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 192 frost-free days · 2,817 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 192 frost-free days · 2,817 chill hours · 1,277 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    95%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵MoriokaIwate, Japan

    Zone 7a · 196 frost-free days · 2,844 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 196 frost-free days · 2,844 chill hours · 1,320 mm rain

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

    95%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵Naka-niidaMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,561 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,561 chill hours · 1,278 mm rain

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

    94%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵MuroranHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,983 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 202 frost-free days · 2,983 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵FujiyoshidaYamanashi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 1,606 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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: rice

    93%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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

    93%match
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    🇯🇵YakumoHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 1,237 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵DaigoIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 2,222 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 219 frost-free days · 2,222 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

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

    92%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵Shizunai-furukawachōHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 1,036 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    91%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.