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Land with a climate like Minakuchichō-matoba

🇯🇵Minakuchichō-matoba, Shiga, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minakuchichō-matoba are Sasayama, Japan (99% match), Miyoshi and Tsuyama. About 394,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Anhui, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minakuchichō-matoba are Sasayama, Japan (99% match), Miyoshi and Tsuyama. About 1.0 million km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Anhui, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,725 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,725 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

What grows in Minakuchichō-matoba →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    40k sq mi103k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (90), Clayton (86)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    29k sq mi75k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (83), Lu’an (82)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    24k sq mi61k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (89), Deqing (83)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (94), East Hampton (94)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (84), Longfeng (84)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cleveland (83), La Vergne (83)

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    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    9,800 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (89), Yeosu (88)

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    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (93), Saikai (93)

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    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Ōzu (98)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gotemba (97), Oyama (97)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyosai (90), Sinhyeon (90)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (93), Ora-dong (93)

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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    🇯🇵SasayamaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,884 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,884 chill hours · 1,497 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵MiyoshiHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 1,591 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵TsuyamaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 1,460 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵HimejiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵EnaGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 1,942 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵YamaguchiJapan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 1,779 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵MiyoshiAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,437 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,437 chill hours · 1,875 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵Kawachi-NaganoOsaka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,402 chill hours · 1,435 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵MatsueShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 1,443 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ŌzuEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 1,799 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ToyotaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,873 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵KainanWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 1,518 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, garlic

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FukuyamaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    97%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 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MinamiawajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic, fig, citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MarugameKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,382 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,382 chill hours · 1,476 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵HigashikagawaKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,419 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,419 chill hours · 1,526 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    97%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.