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Land with a climate like Shimobuchi

🇯🇵Shimobuchi, Nara, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shimobuchi are Gifu, Japan (99% match), Toyota and Matsuyama. About 331,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and North Carolina, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shimobuchi are Gifu, Japan (99% match), Toyota and Matsuyama. About 858,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and North Carolina, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,497 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,497 chill hours · 1,581 mm rain

What grows in Shimobuchi →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    32k sq mi84k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (88), Yezhou (87)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    32k sq mi82k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lucheng (86), Tongling (84)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    30k sq mi77k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (90), Greenville (84)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    28k sq mi73k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (92), Lianghu (86)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    11k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (93), Norfolk (93)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (86), Dundalk (84)

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    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    8,600 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (88), Haenam (86)

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    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (95), Tsushima (94)

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    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Haramachi (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (99), Yamaguchi (99)

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    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Jeju City (94), Seogwipo (94)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi7,000 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (89), Sinhyeon (89)

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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    🇯🇵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
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    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵HikoneShiga, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,693 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
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    🇯🇵NagoyaAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,373 chill hours · 1,865 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵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

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵SōjaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 245 frost-free days · 1,517 chill hours · 1,375 mm rain

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

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MatsudoChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,360 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,360 chill hours · 1,368 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵ShidoKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 1,493 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵MarugameKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,382 chill hours · 58 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,382 chill hours · 1,476 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵TokyoJapan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,253 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,253 chill hours · 1,492 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FukuyamaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8b · 249 frost-free days · 1,430 chill hours · 1,289 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
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    🇯🇵FujiShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,216 chill hours · 1,713 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 23 of your 23 great-fit crops · Also great there: garlic

    98%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.