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Land with a climate like Sōja

🇯🇵Sōja, Okayama, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Sōja are Himeji, Japan (99% match), Higashihiroshima and Yokkaichi. About 472,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and Hunan, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Sōja are Himeji, Japan (99% match), Higashihiroshima and Yokkaichi. About 1.2 million km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Anhui, China and Hunan, China.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Sōja →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    59k sq mi152k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (92), Longfeng (92)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    42k sq mi110k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Taozhou (93), Lucheng (93)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Hunan, China

    42k sq mi109k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Wulingyuan (93), Zhangjiajie (90)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    30k sq mi76k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (92), Havelock (86)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    10k sq mi26k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (94), Virginia Beach (93)

  6. 6

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    9,800 sq mi25k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (91), Mokpo (91)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,200 sq mi21k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (86), Easton (83)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    5,500 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Isahaya (95), Ōmura (94)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hōjō (99), Matsuyama (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (99), Hikari (99)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Gaigeturi (94), Ara-dong (94)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    2,200 sq mi5,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tongyeong (88), Sinhyeon (88)

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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    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵HigashihiroshimaHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,469 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 255 frost-free days · 1,469 chill hours · 1,678 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵YokkaichiMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 67 in rainZone 8b · 258 frost-free days · 1,383 chill hours · 1,700 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵KainanWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,364 chill hours · 1,518 mm rain

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

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KobeHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,312 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8b · 271 frost-free days · 1,312 chill hours · 1,266 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: fig, citrus, olive

    99%match
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    🇯🇵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 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵KyotoJapan

    Zone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 250 frost-free days · 1,440 chill hours · 1,563 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵TondabayashichōOsaka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,280 chill hours · 1,369 mm rain

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

    98%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MinatoWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 53 in rainZone 8b · 273 frost-free days · 1,144 chill hours · 1,347 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, fig

    98%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 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
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    🇯🇵MiyoshiHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 246 frost-free days · 1,658 chill hours · 1,591 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    98%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 24 great-fit crops

    98%match
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    🇯🇵Ōno-haraHiroshima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,334 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,334 chill hours · 1,756 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    98%match
  16. 16

    🇯🇵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 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    97%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 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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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 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵NabariMie, Japan

    Zone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 65 in rainZone 8a · 242 frost-free days · 1,854 chill hours · 1,653 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KitsukiOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,240 chill hours · 1,724 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    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.