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Land with a climate like Obanazawa

🇯🇵Obanazawa, Yamagata, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Obanazawa are Kitakata, Japan (99% match), Akita and Iiyama. About 155,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and Indiana, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Obanazawa are Kitakata, Japan (99% match), Akita and Iiyama. About 400,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and Indiana, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,766 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,766 chill hours · 1,479 mm rain

What grows in Obanazawa →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hough (85), Collinwood (85)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Erie (86), West Chester (85)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Indiana, United States

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example South Bend (83), Michigan City (82)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    7,100 sq mi18k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Muikamachi (98), Minamiuonuma (98)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Akita (99), Rokugō (99)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Aomori, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hirosaki (99), Hirakawa (99)

  7. 7

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    2,000 sq mi5,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Leamington (83), Windsor (83)

  8. 8

    🇬🇪Abkhazia, Georgia

    700 sq mi1,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stantsiya Novyy Afon (75), Sokhumi (72)

  9. 9

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Khadyzhensk (80), Apsheronsk (79)

  10. 10

    🇹🇷Trabzon, Turkey

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sürmene (66), Of (62)

  11. 11

    🇹🇷Rize Province, Turkey

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rize (65), Çayeli (56)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (59), Poti (57)

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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    🇯🇵KitakataFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 1,341 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, cotton

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵AkitaJapan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 1,633 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵IiyamaNagano, Japan

    Zone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,672 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,672 chill hours · 1,486 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵DaisenAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,649 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵HirosakiAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,835 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,835 chill hours · 1,407 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵NoshiroAkita, Japan

    Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 1,430 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FurukawaGifu, Japan

    Zone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,718 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,718 chill hours · 1,836 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵MinamiuonumaNiigata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,654 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,654 chill hours · 2,007 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵NikahoAkita, Japan

    Zone 8a · 212 frost-free days · 2,503 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8a · 212 frost-free days · 2,503 chill hours · 1,733 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵HanawaAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 1,491 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MoriokaIwate, Japan

    Zone 7a · 196 frost-free days · 2,844 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 196 frost-free days · 2,844 chill hours · 1,320 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵ŌshūIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 201 frost-free days · 2,766 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 201 frost-free days · 2,766 chill hours · 1,279 mm rain

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

    95%match
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    🇯🇵TowadaAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,951 chill hours · 1,236 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    94%match
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    🇯🇵HakodateHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,896 chill hours · 1,305 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NantoToyama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,216 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,216 chill hours · 2,012 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, kiwifruit

    93%match
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    🇯🇵MurakamiNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,317 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,317 chill hours · 2,129 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, kiwifruit

    93%match
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    🇺🇸BarnstableMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,751 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,751 chill hours · 1,198 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    92%match
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    🇯🇵MutsuAomori, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,912 chill hours · 1,295 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    92%match
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    🇯🇵ItoigawaNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 2,203 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 2,203 chill hours · 2,012 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, peanut, kiwifruit

    92%match
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    🇺🇸New BedfordMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 2,779 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops

    91%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.