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Land with a climate like Tsuruoka

🇯🇵Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Tsuruoka are Tainai, Japan (99% match), Shibata and Kurobe-shi. About 102,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Maryland, United States, Niigata, Japan and New Jersey, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Tsuruoka are Tainai, Japan (99% match), Shibata and Kurobe-shi. About 265,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Maryland, United States, Niigata, Japan and New Jersey, United States.

Your growing climate

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

What grows in Tsuruoka →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    9,300 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Edgewood (85), Bel Air North (84)

  2. 2

    🇯🇵Niigata, Japan

    7,300 sq mi19k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gosen (99), Tainai (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸New Jersey, United States

    6,700 sq mi17k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Point Pleasant (89), Asbury Park (89)

  4. 4

    🇯🇵Akita, Japan

    4,400 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yurihonjō (99), Akita (99)

  5. 5

    🇯🇵Ishikawa, Japan

    4,100 sq mi10k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tsurugi-asahimachi (99), Hitoto (99)

  6. 6

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    3,000 sq mi7,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Adler (87), Kudepsta (87)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸New York, United States

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

    For example Brooklyn (87), Copiague (87)

  8. 8

    🇬🇪Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

    2,000 sq mi5,100 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zugdidi (84), Poti (80)

  9. 9

    🇬🇪Imereti, Georgia

    1,100 sq mi2,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Kutaisi (77), Samtredia (76)

  10. 10

    🇬🇪Abkhazia, Georgia

    1,100 sq mi2,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Stantsiya Novyy Afon (83), Sokhumi (83)

  11. 11

    🇮🇹Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

    1,000 sq mi2,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gorizia (82), Udine (79)

  12. 12

    🇹🇷Rize Province, Turkey

    900 sq mi2,300 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Rize (85), Çayeli (82)

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

  1. 1

    🇯🇵TainaiNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,186 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8a · 232 frost-free days · 2,186 chill hours · 2,035 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵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 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇯🇵Kurobe-shiToyama, Japan

    Zone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,159 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8a · 230 frost-free days · 2,159 chill hours · 1,926 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵UshitsuIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,188 chill hours · 80 in rainZone 8a · 226 frost-free days · 2,188 chill hours · 2,024 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇯🇵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 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    98%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    98%match
  8. 8

    🇯🇵TsubataIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,849 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,849 chill hours · 1,951 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵NagaokaNiigata, Japan

    Zone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 97 in rainZone 7b · 220 frost-free days · 2,345 chill hours · 2,465 mm rain

    Shares 14 of your 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵SadoNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8b · 242 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 87 in rainZone 8b · 242 frost-free days · 1,944 chill hours · 2,213 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    97%match
  11. 11

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

    97%match
  12. 12

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

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵JōetsuNiigata, Japan

    Zone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,022 chill hours · 100 in rainZone 8a · 227 frost-free days · 2,022 chill hours · 2,541 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵KanazawaIshikawa, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 76 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,707 chill hours · 1,938 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵MinamiuonumaNiigata, Japan

    Zone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,654 chill hours · 79 in rainZone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,654 chill hours · 2,007 mm rain

    Shares 16 of your 19 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵MaizuruKyoto, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,768 chill hours · 1,748 mm rain

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

    95%match
  17. 17

    🇯🇵YonezawaYamagata, Japan

    Zone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 52 in rainZone 7b · 210 frost-free days · 2,731 chill hours · 1,317 mm rain

    Shares 17 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, cherry

    95%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵GujōGifu, Japan

    Zone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 83 in rainZone 8a · 221 frost-free days · 2,284 chill hours · 2,108 mm rain

    Shares 15 of your 19 great-fit crops

    94%match
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    🇯🇵ToyookaHyōgo, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,719 chill hours · 1,901 mm rain

    Shares 18 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: tea

    94%match
  20. 20

    🇯🇵UnnanShimane, Japan

    Zone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,847 chill hours · 61 in rainZone 8a · 241 frost-free days · 1,847 chill hours · 1,562 mm rain

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

    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.