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Land with a climate like Otaru

🇯🇵Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Otaru are Rumoi, Japan (99% match), Mutsu and Hakodate. About 185,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Hokkaido, Japan and Ontario, Canada.The towns with the closest growing climate to Otaru are Rumoi, Japan (99% match), Mutsu and Hakodate. About 478,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in New York, United States, Hokkaido, Japan and Ontario, Canada.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,240 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 7a · 190 frost-free days · 3,240 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

What grows in Otaru →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    23k sq mi60k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oswego (92), Clay (90)

  2. 2

    🇯🇵Hokkaido, Japan

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rumoi (99), Hakodate (95)

  3. 3

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    19k sq mi50k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Prince Edward (86), Cobourg (84)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸Pennsylvania, United States

    15k sq mi40k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Erie (87), Hazleton (85)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Massachusetts, United States

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Duxbury (90), Gloucester (90)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Iwate, Japan

    6,000 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ninohe (93), Shizukuishi (90)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    5,700 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Semboku (92), Hanawa (92)

  8. 8

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Apsheronsk (60), Mostovskoy (56)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

  11. 11

    🇨🇦Nova Scotia, Canada

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Halifax (76), Dartmouth (75)

  12. 12

    🇨🇦New Brunswick, Canada

    200 sq mi500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Moncton (59), Quispamsis (59)

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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    🇯🇵RumoiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,339 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 6b · 181 frost-free days · 3,339 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 19 great-fit crops

    96%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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 19 great-fit crops

    95%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 19 great-fit crops

    94%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    94%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵YakumoHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 3,007 chill hours · 1,237 mm rain

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

    94%match
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    🇯🇵DateHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 191 frost-free days · 3,128 chill hours · 1,233 mm rain

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

    94%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵WakkanaiHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,394 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 183 frost-free days · 3,394 chill hours · 1,062 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: lavender, wine grapes

    93%match
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    🇺🇸OswegoNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,239 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 183 frost-free days · 3,239 chill hours · 1,076 mm rain

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

    92%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵TakikawaHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 6a · 175 frost-free days · 3,401 chill hours · 1,133 mm rain

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

    92%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵NakashibetsuHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 3,169 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 3,169 chill hours · 1,063 mm rain

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

    92%match
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    🇺🇸GloucesterMassachusetts, United States

    Zone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,939 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 187 frost-free days · 2,939 chill hours · 1,142 mm rain

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

    90%match
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    🇯🇵Aizu-misato MachiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 7b · 203 frost-free days · 2,863 chill hours · 1,379 mm rain

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

    90%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸ClayNew York, United States

    Zone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 6b · 179 frost-free days · 3,245 chill hours · 1,057 mm rain

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

    90%match
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    🇺🇸PortlandMaine, United States

    Zone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 6b · 167 frost-free days · 3,235 chill hours · 1,187 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    89%match
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    🇯🇵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 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: rice

    88%match
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    🇺🇸West TorringtonConnecticut, United States

    Zone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 6b · 171 frost-free days · 3,214 chill hours · 1,210 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    88%match
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    🇯🇵Shizunai-furukawachōHokkaido, Japan

    Zone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 6b · 177 frost-free days · 3,223 chill hours · 1,036 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, lavender

    88%match
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    🇺🇸NorwichConnecticut, United States

    Zone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7a · 184 frost-free days · 2,889 chill hours · 1,250 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    87%match
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    🇺🇸EriePennsylvania, United States

    Zone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 197 frost-free days · 3,056 chill hours · 1,053 mm rain

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

    87%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.