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Land with a climate like Sayō

🇯🇵Sayō, Hyōgo, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sayō are Niimi, Japan (99% match), Shōbara and Unnan. About 386,000 sq mi of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Kentucky, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sayō are Niimi, Japan (99% match), Shōbara and Unnan. About 999,000 km² of land in 8 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Kentucky, United States, Tennessee, United States and Virginia, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,915 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 1,915 chill hours · 1,450 mm rain

What grows in Sayō →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Kentucky, United States

    31k sq mi79k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Danville (85), Nicholasville (85)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Tennessee, United States

    28k sq mi72k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Cookeville (84), Springfield (83)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    21k sq mi55k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (91), Virginia Beach (90)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (83), Gushu (80)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    18k sq mi47k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Heishui (86), Baitu (86)

  6. 6

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    17k sq mi43k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (84), Deqing (78)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    9,600 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (91), Yeongam (90)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Hyōgo, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sandachō (99), Kimokawa (98)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,500 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Mine (95), Hagi (95)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Shimane, Japan

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Unnan (99), Matsue (97)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (91), Ora-dong (91)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (86), Poti (82)

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

    🇯🇵NiimiOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 1,509 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵UnnanShimane, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,847 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,847 chill hours · 1,562 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵SandachōHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,714 chill hours · 1,362 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵NabariMie, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵SakaiminatoTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 252 frost-free days · 1,546 chill hours · 1,475 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵MaizuruKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 1,748 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵YonagoTottori, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,519 chill hours · 1,599 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵ŌtsuShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 1,545 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵EnaGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 1,946 chill hours · 1,942 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵GujōGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵ShinagawaEhime, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 2,079 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 2,079 chill hours · 2,125 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵BeppuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,534 chill hours · 1,965 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵MitoIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,804 chill hours · 1,417 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵SobueAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 1,748 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵ShikokuchūōEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,389 chill hours · 1,738 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%match
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    🇯🇵FukushimaJapan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,256 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,256 chill hours · 1,137 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, hops, almond

    93%match
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    🇯🇵ToyamaJapan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,067 chill hours · 78 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,067 chill hours · 1,970 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops

    93%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.