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Land with a climate like Niimi

🇯🇵Niimi, Okayama, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Niimi are Shisō, Japan (99% match), Tanba and Ikedachō. About 329,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Kentucky, United States, Chongqing, China and Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Niimi are Shisō, Japan (99% match), Tanba and Ikedachō. About 853,000 km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Kentucky, United States, Chongqing, China and Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 1,509 mm rain

What grows in Niimi →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Kentucky, United States

    26k sq mi67k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Danville (85), Nicholasville (84)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    18k sq mi46k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fengping (87), Miaoyu (87)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (89), East Hampton (88)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    16k sq mi41k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuanbao (86), Lichuan (85)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (81), Gushu (78)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cookeville (80), Oak Ridge (80)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (92), Jangheung (90)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sayō (99), Shisō (99)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Itoigawa (89), Agano (89)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hagi (95), Mine (95)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,500 sq mi6,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (92), Ora-dong (92)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (86), Poti (82)

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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    🇯🇵ShisōHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,867 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,867 chill hours · 1,410 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵TanbaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 1,543 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵IkedachōTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,736 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,736 chill hours · 1,818 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵SandachōHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 1,362 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵Aki-takataHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 245 frost-free days · 1,745 chill hours · 1,711 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵KōgeTottori, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,856 chill hours · 1,720 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵NabariMie, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵GujōGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵ŌtsuShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 1,545 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵YoshinogawaTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,868 chill hours · 1,840 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵ShinagawaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 2,079 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 2,079 chill hours · 2,125 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵KamiFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,500 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 257 frost-free days · 1,500 chill hours · 1,763 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵HikoneShiga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵KameyamaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 1,651 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵AsoKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,967 chill hours · 95 in rainZone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,967 chill hours · 2,405 mm rain

    Shares 11 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵MaizuruKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 1,748 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵BeppuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵IzumoShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,566 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵FukushimaJapan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,256 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,256 chill hours · 1,137 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, hops, almond

    94%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵SendaiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 1,257 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    94%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.