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Land with a climate like Shiozawa

🇯🇵Shiozawa, Niigata, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Shiozawa are Daisen, Japan (98% match), Shinjō and Kitakata. About 62,000 sq mi of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Niigata, Japan, Akita, Japan and New Jersey, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Shiozawa are Daisen, Japan (98% match), Shinjō and Kitakata. About 160,000 km² of land in 3 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Niigata, Japan, Akita, Japan and New Jersey, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 210 frost-free days · 2,605 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 7a · 210 frost-free days · 2,605 chill hours · 2,000 mm rain

What grows in Shiozawa →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    7,600 sq mi20k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Muramatsu (98), Gosen (97)

  2. 2

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    5,300 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yokote (98), Daisen (98)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    4,600 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Point Pleasant (86), Brick (86)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Yamagata, Japan

    3,700 sq mi9,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nagai (98), Obanazawa (97)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Massachusetts, United States

    3,600 sq mi9,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example New Bedford (85), Fairhaven (85)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Connecticut, United States

    2,900 sq mi7,600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example New London (83), Stratford (83)

  7. 7

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    200 sq mi600 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Adler (78), Khadyzhensk (76)

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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    🇯🇵DaisenAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,782 chill hours · 1,649 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵ShinjōYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,828 chill hours · 1,640 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    97%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵KitakataFukushima, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,651 chill hours · 1,341 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    97%match
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    🇯🇵TsuruokaYamagata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8a · 220 frost-free days · 2,338 chill hours · 1,853 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, kiwifruit, walnut

    97%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵AkitaJapan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 64 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,623 chill hours · 1,633 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    96%match
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    🇯🇵MurakamiNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,317 chill hours · 84 in rainZone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,317 chill hours · 2,129 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit

    96%match
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    🇯🇵FurukawaGifu, Japan

    Zone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,718 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 7a · 205 frost-free days · 2,718 chill hours · 1,836 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NikahoAkita, Japan

    Zone 8a · 212 frost-free days · 2,503 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8a · 212 frost-free days · 2,503 chill hours · 1,733 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    96%match
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    🇯🇵OnoFukui, Japan

    Zone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 2,182 chill hours · 86 in rainZone 8a · 231 frost-free days · 2,182 chill hours · 2,182 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan

    94%match
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    🇯🇵ShibataNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,162 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,162 chill hours · 1,950 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, tea

    94%match
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    🇯🇵NanyōYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,744 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,744 chill hours · 1,356 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, walnut

    94%match
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    🇯🇵MakiNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,138 chill hours · 82 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,138 chill hours · 2,091 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, tea

    94%match
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    🇯🇵TonamiToyama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,019 chill hours · 2,009 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, pecan, tea

    94%match
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    🇯🇵HitotoIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,059 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,059 chill hours · 2,003 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, pecan

    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 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: pecan, kiwifruit, tea

    93%match
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    🇯🇵NoshiroAkita, Japan

    Zone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 56 in rainZone 7b · 208 frost-free days · 2,642 chill hours · 1,430 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    92%match
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    🇯🇵WajimaIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 2,018 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 2,018 chill hours · 2,031 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, pecan

    91%match
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    🇯🇵NanaoIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,969 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,969 chill hours · 2,032 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: kiwifruit, tea, pecan

    91%match
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    🇯🇵HanawaAkita, Japan

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 3,047 chill hours · 1,491 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    91%match
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    🇯🇵AomoriJapan

    Zone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 204 frost-free days · 2,820 chill hours · 1,318 mm rain

    Shares 13 of your 16 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, walnut

    90%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.