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Land with a climate like Minamata

🇯🇵Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamata are Nagasaki, Japan (99% match), Kanoya and Kaseda-shirakame. About 440,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamata are Nagasaki, Japan (99% match), Kanoya and Kaseda-shirakame. About 1.1 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,009 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,009 chill hours · 2,087 mm rain

What grows in Minamata →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    67k sq mi174k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wugang (87), Lengshuijiang (87)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    51k sq mi133k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pengze (87), Aoxi (87)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    43k sq mi111k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (95), Ninghai (94)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    13k sq mi35k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (90), Jacksonville (87)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tarumizu (99), Sueyoshichō-ninokata (99)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Togitsu (99), Ōmura (99)

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    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hikari (97), Ogōri-shimogō (97)

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    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example North Myrtle Beach (85), Myrtle Beach (85)

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    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gaigeturi (96), Seogwipo (95)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    1,900 sq mi5,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (84), Chesapeake (83)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (69), Yeosu (67)

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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    🇯🇵NagasakiJapan

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 1,039 chill hours · 2,067 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵KanoyaKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 286 frost-free days · 905 chill hours · 101 in rainZone 8b · 286 frost-free days · 905 chill hours · 2,556 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵Kaseda-shirakameKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 786 chill hours · 88 in rainZone 9a · 294 frost-free days · 786 chill hours · 2,244 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵GotōNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 89 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 2,269 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵MiyakonojōMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 98 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 2,498 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵ŌmutaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,197 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,197 chill hours · 1,739 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵TsumaMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 97 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 2,455 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵SaseboNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,166 chill hours · 1,954 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%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

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵TsurusakiOita, Japan

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,026 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,026 chill hours · 1,814 mm rain

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

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵KamigotōNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,008 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,008 chill hours · 2,076 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵ŌzuKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,266 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,266 chill hours · 2,017 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MiyakoFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,355 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,355 chill hours · 1,634 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵YukuhashiFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,223 chill hours · 1,623 mm rain

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

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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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    🇯🇵YanaiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 1,680 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KitakyushuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵HitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,410 chill hours · 1,792 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵AkiKochi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 930 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 9a · 293 frost-free days · 930 chill hours · 2,124 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    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.