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Land with a climate like Minamisatsuma

🇯🇵Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamisatsuma are Izumi, Japan (99% match), Gotō and Kobayashi. About 257,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Jiangxi, China and Hunan, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamisatsuma are Izumi, Japan (99% match), Gotō and Kobayashi. About 666,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, Jiangxi, China and Hunan, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 930 chill hours · 94 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 930 chill hours · 2,383 mm rain

What grows in Minamisatsuma →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    39k sq mi101k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kunyang (89), Zhoushan (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    33k sq mi85k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Aoxi (84), Fenggang (82)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    32k sq mi84k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wugang (81), Lengshuijiang (81)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shibushi (99), Izumi (99)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    6,600 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (84), Jacksonville (78)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gotō (99), Fukuechō (98)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hikari (90), Ogōri-shimogō (89)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Seogwipo (89), Gaigeturi (88)

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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    🇯🇵IzumiKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 2,213 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, pecan

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, apple, blueberry

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵KobayashiMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,273 chill hours · 103 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,273 chill hours · 2,612 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵UkiKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,086 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,086 chill hours · 1,993 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    96%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 16 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, apple, blueberry

    96%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 16 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵HonmachiKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,053 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,053 chill hours · 2,071 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    96%match
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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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NishinoomoteKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 386 chill hours · 111 in rainZone 9b · 341 frost-free days · 386 chill hours · 2,829 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    95%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, pecan

    92%match
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    🇯🇵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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    92%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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    92%match
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    🇯🇵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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    91%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵NakamuraKochi, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 892 chill hours · 91 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 892 chill hours · 2,322 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops

    91%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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    90%match
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    🇯🇵TanabeWakayama, Japan

    Zone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,043 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,043 chill hours · 1,935 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    90%match
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    🇯🇵ShingūWakayama, Japan

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 88 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 996 chill hours · 2,242 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: apple, blueberry, pecan

    90%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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: blueberry, pecan, apple

    90%match
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    🇨🇳ZhoushanZhejiang, China

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,028 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,028 chill hours · 1,176 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan, blueberry

    89%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.