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Land with a climate like Ōkawara

🇯🇵Ōkawara, Miyagi, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōkawara are Kōriyama, Japan (99% match), Nasushiobara and Utsunomiya. About 210,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chongqing, China, Virginia, United States and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōkawara are Kōriyama, Japan (99% match), Nasushiobara and Utsunomiya. About 544,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chongqing, China, Virginia, United States and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,133 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,133 chill hours · 1,269 mm rain

What grows in Ōkawara →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fengping (87), Miaoyu (87)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    15k sq mi38k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Fort Hunt (85), Hybla Valley (85)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    13k sq mi34k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lichuan (86), Tuanbao (86)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Edgewood (88), Arnold (88)

  5. 5

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinan (91), Haenam (91)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Atlantic City (91), Pleasantville (90)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasayama (95), Tamba-Sasayama (95)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyosai (92), Sinhyeon (92)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kōriyama (99), Sukagawa (98)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Shimane, Japan

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Unnan (94), Matsue (92)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boryeong (84), Seosan (81)

  12. 12

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    1,800 sq mi4,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (74), Zhangjiajie (58)

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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    🇯🇵KōriyamaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 211 frost-free days · 2,309 chill hours · 1,186 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 21 of your 25 great-fit crops

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵UtsunomiyaTochigi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 228 frost-free days · 1,872 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 228 frost-free days · 1,872 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵HinoShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 1,638 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 22 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    96%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵IchinosekiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,683 chill hours · 1,267 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 25 great-fit crops

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵TsukubaIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,654 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,654 chill hours · 1,359 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    96%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵MitoIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 1,417 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    96%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    96%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    95%match
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    🇯🇵NakanojōGunma, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,407 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,407 chill hours · 1,414 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 25 great-fit crops

    94%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    94%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵ShibukawaGunma, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,850 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,850 chill hours · 1,309 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops

    93%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    93%match
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    🇯🇵TsuyamaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 1,460 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    93%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    93%match
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    🇯🇵KofuYamanashi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,959 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 8a · 222 frost-free days · 1,959 chill hours · 1,110 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NaganoJapan

    Zone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,389 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7b · 211 frost-free days · 2,389 chill hours · 1,081 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 25 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, almond

    93%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 21 of your 25 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.