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Land with a climate like Sakurai

🇯🇵Sakurai, Nara, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sakurai are Yae, Japan (99% match), Itogawa and Suzuka. About 303,000 sq mi of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Anhui, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sakurai are Yae, Japan (99% match), Itogawa and Suzuka. About 786,000 km² of land in 7 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in North Carolina, United States, Anhui, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,702 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,702 chill hours · 1,636 mm rain

What grows in Sakurai →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    24k sq mi62k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (88), Clayton (83)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lucheng (81), Lu’an (80)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    21k sq mi53k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (86), Longfeng (86)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    20k sq mi52k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (88), Lianghu (80)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (93), East Hampton (92)

  6. 6

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (91), Haenam (89)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (90), Arnold (87)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tsushima (94), Sasebo (93)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Uwa (98)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gotemba (99), Oyama (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    3,500 sq mi9,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (94), Ora-dong (94)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    3,400 sq mi8,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kyosai (92), Sinhyeon (92)

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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    🇯🇵YaeHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,797 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,797 chill hours · 1,794 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵ItogawaWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,552 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,552 chill hours · 1,740 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵TōonEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 1,744 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵YamagataGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,619 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,619 chill hours · 1,898 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵GifuJapan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,527 chill hours · 1,853 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵TatsunoHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 1,316 mm rain

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

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵HimejiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,506 chill hours · 1,304 mm rain

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

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵ŌzuEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,385 chill hours · 1,799 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MinamiawajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

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

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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
  14. 14

    🇯🇵ToyotaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,395 chill hours · 1,873 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 23 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵ShūnanYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,351 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,351 chill hours · 1,793 mm rain

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

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵NantanKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 1,528 mm rain

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

    98%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

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

    97%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵ShōbaraHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,785 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,785 chill hours · 1,533 mm rain

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

    97%match
  20. 20

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

    97%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.