Climatch

Land with a climate like Ōshū

🇯🇵Ōshū, Iwate, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōshū are Yamagata, Japan (99% match), Aizu-Wakamatsu and Yonezawa. About 275,000 sq mi of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and West Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ōshū are Yamagata, Japan (99% match), Aizu-Wakamatsu and Yonezawa. About 712,000 km² of land in 9 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Ohio, United States, Pennsylvania, United States and West Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Ōshū →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    39k sq mi101k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Collinwood (89), Euclid (89)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    26k sq mi66k km² matching 80% or better

    For example West Chester (89), Limerick (89)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸West Virginia, United States

    22k sq mi57k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Weirton (87), Beckley (86)

  4. 4

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Windsor (84), St. Catharines (84)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takanosu (97), Kita-Akita (97)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hakodate (98), Hokuto (95)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    5,800 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ninohe (98), Miyako (97)

  8. 8

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

    2,400 sq mi6,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kosong (79), Santyoku (78)

  9. 9

    🇰🇷Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Imsil (82), Changsu (81)

  10. 10

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    1,800 sq mi4,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinglong (81), Jianshan (72)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    1,700 sq mi4,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boseong (80), Hwasun (79)

  12. 12

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    1,300 sq mi3,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Songbai (79), Lichuan (75)

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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    🇯🇵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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵YonezawaYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 1,317 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender

    98%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 21 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵AomoriJapan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵ŌmachiNagano, Japan

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,795 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,795 chill hours · 1,176 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵ŌdateAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,786 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,786 chill hours · 1,467 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵MiyakoIwate, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,685 chill hours · 1,351 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵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 21 great-fit crops

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    96%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 19 of your 21 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵TakayamaGifu, Japan

    Zone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 7a · 203 frost-free days · 2,674 chill hours · 1,765 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 21 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵HachimantaiIwate, Japan

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,071 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 3,071 chill hours · 1,324 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 21 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵IshinomakiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,420 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,420 chill hours · 1,131 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: almond, lavender, kiwifruit

    95%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 21 great-fit crops · Also great there: cotton, pecan

    94%match
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    🇯🇵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 21 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵ShinjōYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 1,640 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 21 great-fit crops

    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.