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Land with a climate like Shanghai

🇨🇳Shanghai, China

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shanghai are Jiaxing, China (99% match), Suzhou and Cixi. About 452,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shanghai are Jiaxing, China (99% match), Suzhou and Cixi. About 1.2 million km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Jiangxi, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,123 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,123 chill hours · 1,035 mm rain

What grows in Shanghai →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    67k sq mi173k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Shenliu (96), Nanzhou (95)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    53k sq mi138k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pengze (95), Jiujiang (93)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    48k sq mi124k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Xiulin (95), Xindi (95)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (85), Havelock (85)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Myrtle Beach (85), Charleston (84)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    4,800 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmura (92), Isahaya (91)

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ube (92), Onoda (91)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Fukuoka, Japan

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

    For example Katanawa (92), Shingū (92)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

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

    For example Virginia Beach (88), Norfolk (88)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jeju City (91), Gaigeturi (91)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    1,000 sq mi2,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinan (75), Mokpo (75)

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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    🇨🇳JiaxingZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,260 chill hours · 1,050 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇨🇳SuzhouJiangsu, China

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 36 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 908 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇨🇳CixiZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,118 chill hours · 1,132 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇨🇳HuzhouZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,310 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,310 chill hours · 1,150 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇨🇳NingboZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 287 frost-free days · 993 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8b · 287 frost-free days · 993 chill hours · 1,173 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇨🇳ShaoxingZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 280 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8b · 280 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 1,200 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇨🇳HangzhouZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,134 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,134 chill hours · 1,212 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇨🇳ChangshuJiangsu, China

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,387 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,387 chill hours · 968 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, table and raisin grapes

    99%match
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    🇨🇳WuxiJiangsu, China

    Zone 8a · 269 frost-free days · 1,394 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 8a · 269 frost-free days · 1,394 chill hours · 950 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: table and raisin grapes, wine grapes

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇨🇳YixingJiangsu, China

    Zone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,427 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,427 chill hours · 1,058 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇨🇳ZhujiZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 1,038 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8b · 283 frost-free days · 1,038 chill hours · 1,245 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇳NinghaiZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 286 frost-free days · 1,030 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8b · 286 frost-free days · 1,030 chill hours · 1,221 mm rain

    Shares 26 of your 28 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇨🇳NantongJiangsu, China

    Zone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,502 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 8a · 264 frost-free days · 1,502 chill hours · 1,008 mm rain

    Shares 27 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
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    🇨🇳XianjuZhejiang, China

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 878 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    98%match
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    🇨🇳TonglingAnhui, China

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,214 chill hours · 48 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,214 chill hours · 1,222 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇨🇳PuyangZhejiang, China

    Zone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,078 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 277 frost-free days · 1,078 chill hours · 1,296 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 28 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇨🇳TaizhouZhejiang, China

    Zone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 55 in rainZone 9a · 301 frost-free days · 785 chill hours · 1,398 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea, avocado

    97%match
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    🇨🇳XuanchengAnhui, China

    Zone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 46 in rainZone 8a · 263 frost-free days · 1,348 chill hours · 1,156 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 28 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇨🇳NanjingJiangsu, China

    Zone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,485 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 8a · 260 frost-free days · 1,485 chill hours · 1,016 mm rain

    Shares 25 of your 28 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇨🇳AnqingAnhui, China

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,355 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 28 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    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.