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Land with a climate like Rikuzen-Takata

🇯🇵Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Rikuzen-Takata are Tamura, Japan (99% match), Shirakawa and Nikkō. About 129,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chongqing, China, Massachusetts, United States and New Jersey, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Rikuzen-Takata are Tamura, Japan (99% match), Shirakawa and Nikkō. About 334,000 km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Chongqing, China, Massachusetts, United States and New Jersey, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,648 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,648 chill hours · 1,373 mm rain

What grows in Rikuzen-Takata →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    5,900 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xinglong (85), Jianshan (76)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Massachusetts, United States

    5,600 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Duxbury (85), Fall River (85)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Long Branch (87), Tinton Falls (86)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Fukushima, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tamura (99), Funehikimachi-funehiki (99)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Aomori, Japan

    5,200 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hitokawame (98), Misawa (98)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    5,100 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Takanosu (90), Kita-Akita (90)

  7. 7

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Songbai (84), Lichuan (79)

  8. 8

    🇺🇸New York, United States

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shirley (89), Mastic (89)

  9. 9

    🇰🇷Gangwon-do, South Korea

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

    For example Kosong (84), Sokcho (83)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taesal-li (78), Seosan (77)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    1,500 sq mi3,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Boseong (81), Hwasun (77)

  12. 12

    🇨🇦Ontario, Canada

    1,300 sq mi3,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example St. Catharines (70), Niagara-on-the-Lake (68)

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

  1. 1

    🇯🇵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
  2. 2

    🇯🇵ShirakawaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 205 frost-free days · 2,495 chill hours · 1,249 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵ŌsakiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,553 chill hours · 1,244 mm rain

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

    97%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

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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

    96%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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

    94%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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

    94%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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

    94%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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

    93%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵InaNagano, Japan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,498 chill hours · 1,257 mm rain

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

    93%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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

    93%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    93%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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

    92%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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

    92%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 20 great-fit crops

    92%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵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

    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.