Climatch

Land with a climate like Tsukuba

🇯🇵Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Tsukuba are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Gotemba and Takasaki. About 219,000 sq mi of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Virginia, United States and North Carolina, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Tsukuba are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Gotemba and Takasaki. About 568,000 km² of land in 4 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Virginia, United States and North Carolina, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,654 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,654 chill hours · 1,359 mm rain

What grows in Tsukuba →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    19k sq mi48k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (83), Longfeng (82)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (89), Virginia Beach (89)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    13k sq mi33k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (86), Clayton (80)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tonggu (85), Liangping (85)

  5. 5

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    12k sq mi30k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (84), Lianghu (77)

  6. 6

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (91), Gwangyang (90)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    9,400 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (87), Fort Washington (84)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (96), Shikokuchūō (94)

  9. 9

    🇯🇵Shizuoka, Japan

    4,900 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Oyama (99), Gotemba (99)

  10. 10

    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yanai (94), Yamaguchi (94)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    3,900 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (94), Kyosai (93)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

    2,700 sq mi7,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ara-dong (88), Ora-dong (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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    🇯🇵AiharaKanagawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,540 chill hours · 59 in rainZone 8a · 246 frost-free days · 1,540 chill hours · 1,510 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵GotembaShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 244 frost-free days · 1,588 chill hours · 1,601 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵TakasakiGunma, Japan

    Zone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 238 frost-free days · 1,645 chill hours · 1,258 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes

    98%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵IwakiFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 240 frost-free days · 1,827 chill hours · 1,299 mm rain

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

    98%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵Minami-AlpsYamanashi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 47 in rainZone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 1,185 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: wine grapes, almond

    98%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵KonanShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8a · 243 frost-free days · 1,796 chill hours · 1,563 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵KisarazuChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,274 chill hours · 62 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,274 chill hours · 1,569 mm rain

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

    97%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵Minami-SōmaFukushima, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 51 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 2,012 chill hours · 1,284 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    97%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵ŌtsuShiga, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,803 chill hours · 1,545 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    97%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵MinamiawajiHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,404 chill hours · 1,452 mm rain

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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵ChoshiChiba, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,297 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,297 chill hours · 1,546 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇯🇵ItōShizuoka, Japan

    Zone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,329 chill hours · 72 in rainZone 8b · 272 frost-free days · 1,329 chill hours · 1,835 mm rain

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

    95%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵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

    95%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵OwaseMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8b · 269 frost-free days · 1,283 chill hours · 2,022 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus

    94%match
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    🇯🇵TsuyamaOkayama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 237 frost-free days · 1,716 chill hours · 1,460 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵SendaiMiyagi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 49 in rainZone 8a · 224 frost-free days · 2,217 chill hours · 1,257 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops · Also great there: hops, wine grapes

    94%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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵NishioAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,342 chill hours · 71 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,342 chill hours · 1,794 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵HigashikagawaKagawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,419 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,419 chill hours · 1,526 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    94%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.