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Land with a climate like Minakami

🇯🇵Minakami, Gunma, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minakami are Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan (99% match), Yonezawa and Yamagata. About 255,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Virginia, United States, West Virginia, United States and Kentucky, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minakami are Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan (99% match), Yonezawa and Yamagata. About 659,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Virginia, United States, West Virginia, United States and Kentucky, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,521 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,521 chill hours · 1,547 mm rain

What grows in Minakami →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    26k sq mi67k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Great Falls (86), Tysons (86)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Beckley (86), Martinsburg (84)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Kentucky, United States

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Richmond (83), Danville (83)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Arai (91), Gosen (91)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takanosu (96), Kita-Akita (96)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aizu-Wakamatsu (99), Aizu-misato Machi (97)

  7. 7

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    2,100 sq mi5,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (81), Khosta (80)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

    1,900 sq mi4,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Santyoku (84), Donghae City (83)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kutaisi (68), Zestaponi (67)

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (76), Poti (65)

  11. 11

    🇬🇪Abkhazia, Georgia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stantsiya Novyy Afon (73), Sokhumi (73)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

    500 sq mi1,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Heunghae (72), Cheongsong gun (72)

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

    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 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, cotton, hops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, cotton

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 18 great-fit crops

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, wine grapes

    96%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵ChikumaNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,435 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,435 chill hours · 1,047 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, pecan, wine grapes

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵SukagawaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,385 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,385 chill hours · 1,207 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, wine grapes, hops

    95%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵DaisenAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,649 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops

    95%match
  10. 10

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

    95%match
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    🇯🇵HirosakiAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,835 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,835 chill hours · 1,407 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵GujōGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    94%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵YonoOsaka, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,072 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,072 chill hours · 1,513 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan, peanut

    94%match
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    🇯🇵IidaNagano, Japan

    Zone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,136 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,136 chill hours · 1,555 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, cotton, kiwifruit

    94%match
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    🇺🇸New RochelleNew York, United States

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,626 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,626 chill hours · 1,137 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, wine grapes

    94%match
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    🇯🇵Yanagawamachi-saiwaichōFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,197 chill hours · 1,223 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, cotton, kiwifruit

    94%match
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    🇯🇵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 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    94%match
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    🇯🇵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 18 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵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 18 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops

    93%match
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    🇺🇸BridgeportConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 2,686 chill hours · 1,198 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 18 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, hops, wine grapes

    93%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.