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Land with a climate like Shimada, Japan

🇯🇵Shimada, Kumamoto, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shimada, Japan are Ōmura, Japan (99% match), Ogi and Miyakonojō. About 403,000 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 Shimada, Japan are Ōmura, Japan (99% match), Ogi and Miyakonojō. About 1.0 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 · 268 frost-free days · 1,102 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,102 chill hours · 2,000 mm rain

What grows in Shimada, Japan →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    56k sq mi145k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zhangjiajie (90), Wulingyuan (89)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Jiangxi, China

    48k sq mi125k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Pengze (90), Jingdezhen (88)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    38k sq mi99k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Daye (91), Caohe (90)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Havelock (90), New Bern (89)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,500 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ōmura (99), Togitsu (99)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸South Carolina, United States

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

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

  7. 7

    🇯🇵Kagoshima, Japan

    5,600 sq mi15k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Izumi (98), Tsuruda (98)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hōfu (99), Kudamatsu (98)

  9. 9

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

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

    For example Chesapeake (88), Norfolk (87)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (92), Seogwipo (92)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    500 sq mi1,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (75), Yeosu (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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    🇯🇵ŌmuraNagasaki, Japan

    Zone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,057 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 278 frost-free days · 1,057 chill hours · 1,858 mm rain

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵OgiSaga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,090 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 275 frost-free days · 1,090 chill hours · 1,730 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  9. 9

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

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵FukuokaJapan

    Zone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,007 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 9a · 285 frost-free days · 1,007 chill hours · 1,615 mm rain

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

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  12. 12

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

    97%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵TsumaMiyazaki, Japan

    Zone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 97 in rainZone 9a · 288 frost-free days · 894 chill hours · 2,455 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 20 great-fit crops

    97%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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 20 great-fit crops

    96%match
  15. 15

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵MatsusakaMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 74 in rainZone 8b · 261 frost-free days · 1,299 chill hours · 1,882 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 20 great-fit crops

    96%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

    95%match
  19. 19

    🇯🇵KagoshimaJapan

    Zone 9a · 310 frost-free days · 678 chill hours · 92 in rainZone 9a · 310 frost-free days · 678 chill hours · 2,344 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 20 great-fit crops

    95%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵IchinomiyaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8a · 250 frost-free days · 1,471 chill hours · 1,816 mm rain

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

    95%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.