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Land with a climate like Saga

🇯🇵Saga, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Saga are Nakatsu, Japan (99% match), Kitakyushu and Hiroshima. About 357,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Saga are Nakatsu, Japan (99% match), Kitakyushu and Hiroshima. About 924,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Hubei, China and Zhejiang, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,045 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,045 chill hours · 1,728 mm rain

What grows in Saga →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    39k sq mi102k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zhangjiajie (91), Wulingyuan (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    39k sq mi100k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Huangmei (91), Qingquan (91)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    37k sq mi97k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xiaoshan (95), Shaoxing (94)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    19k sq mi49k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jacksonville (89), Havelock (89)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Iki (96), Fukuechō (93)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    6,000 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Myrtle Beach (86), North Myrtle Beach (85)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (95), Tsuruda (94)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ube (99), Onoda (99)

  9. 9

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,200 sq mi8,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeju City (94), Seogwipo (93)

  10. 10

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    2,900 sq mi7,400 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Chesapeake (90), Norfolk (90)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (79), Gwangyang (76)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    700 sq mi1,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (81), Geoje (78)

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

    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵KitakyushuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵HiroshimaJapan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 1,856 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵MatsuyamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,242 chill hours · 1,595 mm rain

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵ŌitaOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 276 frost-free days · 1,068 chill hours · 1,803 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵HonmachiKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,053 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 274 frost-free days · 1,053 chill hours · 2,071 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵Hondomachi-hondoKumamoto, Japan

    Zone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 973 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 9a · 287 frost-free days · 973 chill hours · 2,001 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵NiihamaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,189 chill hours · 1,607 mm rain

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

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵UwajimaEhime, Japan

    Zone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 9a · 277 frost-free days · 1,023 chill hours · 1,912 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵YamaguchiJapan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,439 chill hours · 1,779 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵TokushimaJapan

    Zone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,070 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 281 frost-free days · 1,070 chill hours · 1,619 mm rain

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

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵MinatoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 1,347 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic, fig

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵YanaiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 1,680 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵NagoyaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 1,865 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵SuzukaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,414 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,414 chill hours · 1,698 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵KyotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,563 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    97%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵OsakaJapan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,173 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,173 chill hours · 1,323 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, fig, garlic

    97%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵SaikiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 81 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,069 chill hours · 2,050 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵OkayamaJapan

    Zone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8b · 247 frost-free days · 1,446 chill hours · 1,433 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry, garlic

    97%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵HashimotoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,418 chill hours · 1,552 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: cherry

    96%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.