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Land with a climate like Shimabara

🇯🇵Shimabara, Nagasaki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shimabara are Izumi, Japan (99% match), Hikari and Kanda. About 393,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Zhejiang, China and Hubei, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shimabara are Izumi, Japan (99% match), Hikari and Kanda. About 1.0 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hunan, China, Zhejiang, China and Hubei, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,282 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,282 chill hours · 2,074 mm rain

What grows in Shimabara →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    50k sq mi131k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (90), Zhangjiajie (86)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    39k sq mi101k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (95), Ninghai (90)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    33k sq mi85k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (87), Yezhou (85)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (86), Elizabeth City (85)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,800 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gotō (98), Kamigotō (98)

  6. 6

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    6,400 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (99), Tsuruda (99)

  7. 7

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    5,400 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (81), Yeosu (80)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yawatahama (99), Uwa (99)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    3,600 sq mi9,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (86), Newport News (85)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (98), Tallang-dong (97)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

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

    For example Sinhyeon (83), Geoje (83)

  12. 12

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    400 sq mi1,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (79), Poti (79)

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

    🇯🇵IzumiKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,016 chill hours · 2,213 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵HikariYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,278 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,278 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵KandaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 1,622 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵Bungo-Takada-shiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,222 chill hours · 1,649 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵HagiYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 259 frost-free days · 1,459 chill hours · 1,760 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵GotōNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 89 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 965 chill hours · 2,269 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
  12. 12

    🇯🇵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 19 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵KamigotōNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,008 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 9a · 291 frost-free days · 1,008 chill hours · 2,076 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops

    98%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵IizukaFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,230 chill hours · 1,699 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵AiraKagoshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,002 chill hours · 90 in rainZone 8b · 284 frost-free days · 1,002 chill hours · 2,283 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵MiyakonojōMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 98 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,067 chill hours · 2,498 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 20 great-fit crops

    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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    97%match
  19. 19

    🇰🇷Jeju CityJeju-do, South Korea

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,231 chill hours · 1,673 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    97%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵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 20 of your 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    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.