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Land with a climate like Ōarai

🇯🇵Ōarai, Ibaraki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōarai are Iwaki, Japan (99% match), Yugawara and Minami-Sōma. About 153,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōarai are Iwaki, Japan (99% match), Yugawara and Minami-Sōma. About 397,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,690 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,690 chill hours · 1,414 mm rain

What grows in Ōarai →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinan (84), Haenam (84)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tuanbao (80), Lichuan (79)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (78), Zhoushan (67)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (83), Newport News (81)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Awaji (94), Aioi (94)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hagi (91), Yanai (90)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oyama (98), Gotemba (96)

  8. 8

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fengping (81), Luoping (80)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    4,000 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (82), Arnold (76)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,000 sq mi7,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (88), Ora-dong (88)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,500 sq mi6,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Geoje (91), Sinhyeon (90)

  12. 12

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    1,400 sq mi3,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Atlantic City (83), Pleasantville (80)

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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    🇯🇵IwakiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵YugawaraKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 256 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 256 frost-free days · 1,518 chill hours · 1,760 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵Minami-SōmaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 1,284 mm rain

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

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵SagamiharaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 1,491 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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

    95%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵AwajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 256 frost-free days · 1,628 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8b · 256 frost-free days · 1,628 chill hours · 1,331 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    94%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵MobaraChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,341 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,341 chill hours · 1,624 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵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

    94%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵TochigiJapan

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,710 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,710 chill hours · 1,280 mm rain

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

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵SodegauraChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,308 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,308 chill hours · 1,560 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵ItogawaWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,552 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,552 chill hours · 1,740 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵ChibaJapan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,331 chill hours · 1,374 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    94%match
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    🇯🇵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

    93%match
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    🇯🇵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

    93%match
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    🇯🇵FujinomiyaShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,323 chill hours · 1,667 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NasushiobaraTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,276 chill hours · 1,267 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    92%match
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    🇯🇵ZushiKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,244 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,244 chill hours · 1,714 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    92%match
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    🇯🇵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 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    92%match
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    🇯🇵SukagawaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,385 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,385 chill hours · 1,207 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, hops

    92%match
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    🇯🇵TsushimaNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,457 chill hours · 1,927 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    92%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.