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Land with a climate like Ōfunato

🇯🇵Ōfunato, Iwate, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōfunato are Wakuya, Japan (99% match), Tamura and Sukagawa. About 114,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Aomori, Japan, Fukushima, Japan and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōfunato are Wakuya, Japan (99% match), Tamura and Sukagawa. About 296,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Aomori, Japan, Fukushima, Japan and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 208 frost-free days · 2,541 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 208 frost-free days · 2,541 chill hours · 1,411 mm rain

What grows in Ōfunato →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇯🇵Aomori, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hitokawame (97), Misawa (96)

  2. 2

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ishikawa (99), Kumakura (99)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Songbai (83), Lichuan (79)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    4,800 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinglong (83), Zhuyuan (76)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Long Branch (86), Tinton Falls (86)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Massachusetts, United States

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Duxbury (82), Fall River (82)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    4,100 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takanosu (89), Kita-Akita (88)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    3,400 sq mi8,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boseong (83), Beolgyo (79)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example East Setauket (87), Setauket-East Setauket (87)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kosong (87), Sokcho (86)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

    2,400 sq mi6,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taesal-li (77), Seosan (76)

  12. 12

    🇨🇳Shaanxi, China

    800 sq mi2,000 km² matching 80% or better

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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    🇯🇵WakuyaMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,620 chill hours · 1,181 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵TamuraFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 1,254 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵NikkōTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,605 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵FujiyoshidaYamanashi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,457 chill hours · 1,606 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KujiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,815 chill hours · 1,183 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
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    🇯🇵HitachiIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 1,441 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, peanut

    96%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, peanut

    95%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵Natori-shiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 2,073 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 233 frost-free days · 2,073 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, cotton, pecan

    94%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵GeroGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 210 frost-free days · 2,496 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8a · 210 frost-free days · 2,496 chill hours · 1,874 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 20 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵KasamaIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,942 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 1,942 chill hours · 1,351 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan, peanut

    94%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵HachinoheAomori, Japan

    Zone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,901 chill hours · 1,134 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender

    94%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵IwanumaMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 2,073 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 234 frost-free days · 2,073 chill hours · 1,246 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, cotton, pecan

    93%match
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    🇯🇵Aizu-WakamatsuFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,669 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 206 frost-free days · 2,669 chill hours · 1,254 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, cotton

    92%match
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    🇯🇵KaruizawaNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 192 frost-free days · 2,817 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 192 frost-free days · 2,817 chill hours · 1,277 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    92%match
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    🇯🇵NumataGunma, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,369 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,369 chill hours · 1,494 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan

    92%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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
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    🇯🇵YamagataJapan

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,687 chill hours · 1,273 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, wine grapes

    91%match
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    🇯🇵IidaNagano, Japan

    Zone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,136 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 215 frost-free days · 2,136 chill hours · 1,555 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, cotton, kiwifruit

    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.