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Land with a climate like Minamishimabara

🇯🇵Minamishimabara, Nagasaki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamishimabara are Hagi, Japan (99% match), Ōzu and Kobayashi. About 351,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Zhejiang, China and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Minamishimabara are Hagi, Japan (99% match), Ōzu and Kobayashi. About 908,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Zhejiang, China and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 85 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,363 chill hours · 2,169 mm rain

What grows in Minamishimabara →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    44k sq mi114k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (88), Zhangjiajie (84)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    38k sq mi99k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (94), Ninghai (88)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    28k sq mi73k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Biyang (91), Qishan (90)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (85), Elizabeth City (85)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gotō (98), Kamigotō (98)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōkuchi-shinohara (99), Tsuruda (99)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (81), Yeosu (80)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Uwa (99), Ōzu (99)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (85), Newport News (85)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (98), Ara-dong (97)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (84), Sinhyeon (84)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    1,300 sq mi3,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (82), Poti (81)

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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    🇯🇵HagiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 1,760 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, walnut

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, walnut

    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 17 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵SanyōonodaYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,261 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,261 chill hours · 1,621 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, citrus

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, walnut

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵KudamatsuYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 1,761 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, citrus

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, peanut

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, peanut

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵SaikiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵ShikokuchūōEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 1,738 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, walnut

    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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, peanut

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, peanut

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, walnut

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, cotton, peanut

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇰🇷Jeju CityJeju-do, South Korea

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 1,673 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, peanut, cotton

    97%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, citrus

    97%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵OwaseMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, citrus, cotton

    96%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, walnut

    96%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 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: peanut, cotton, walnut

    96%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵SendaiKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 940 chill hours · 89 in rainZone 9a · 286 frost-free days · 940 chill hours · 2,257 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 17 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    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.