Climatch

Land with a climate like Motosu

🇯🇵Motosu, Gifu, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Motosu are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Hatsukaichi and Kyoto. About 253,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Motosu are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Hatsukaichi and Kyoto. About 655,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,587 chill hours · 1,865 mm rain

What grows in Motosu →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    25k sq mi65k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (88), Xiaoshan (83)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    22k sq mi56k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (89), Havelock (84)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lucheng (81), Taozhou (80)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (81), Yezhou (80)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (93), Norfolk (93)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (86), Dundalk (84)

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    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (97), Saikai (95)

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    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Ōzu (99)

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    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yamaguchi (99), Mine (99)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

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

    For example Yeosu (80), Haenam (80)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,000 sq mi7,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeju City (93), Ara-dong (93)

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    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyosai (83), Sinhyeon (83)

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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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵HatsukaichiHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,822 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵KyotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,563 mm rain

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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, cherry

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, peach, pear

    99%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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear

    99%match
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    🇯🇵NishioAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,342 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,342 chill hours · 1,794 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵TsuMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 1,731 mm rain

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

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, cherry

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, peach, pear

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, cherry

    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: citrus, peach, pear

    97%match
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    🇯🇵YokkaichiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,276 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,276 chill hours · 1,659 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵Tottori-shiTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,589 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,589 chill hours · 1,807 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵NishitawaraHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,643 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,643 chill hours · 1,351 mm rain

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

    97%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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    🇯🇵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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, citrus

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, cherry

    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.