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Land with a climate like Ushiku

🇯🇵Ushiku, Ibaraki, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Ushiku are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Iwaki and Takasaki. About 249,000 sq mi of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Zhejiang, China and Chongqing, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Ushiku are Aihara, Japan (99% match), Iwaki and Takasaki. About 644,000 km² of land in 5 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Hubei, China, Zhejiang, China and Chongqing, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 54 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,621 chill hours · 1,374 mm rain

What grows in Ushiku →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    20k sq mi51k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yezhou (84), Longfeng (83)

  2. 2

    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (86), Fenghua (78)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Chongqing, China

    17k sq mi44k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Miaoyu (85), Tonggu (85)

  4. 4

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    12k sq mi31k km² matching 80% or better

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

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    11k sq mi29k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Virginia Beach (90), Newport News (90)

  6. 6

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    11k sq mi27k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yeosu (90), Haenam (89)

  7. 7

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,700 sq mi22k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (87), Fort Washington (82)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,000 sq mi13k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (96), Shikokuchūō (96)

  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 (96), Hikari (95)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Ara-dong (91), Ora-dong (91)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    3,400 sq mi8,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (93), Geoje (93)

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

    🇯🇵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

    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

    97%match
  4. 4

    🇯🇵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
  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

    97%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

    97%match
  7. 7

    🇯🇵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

    97%match
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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

    97%match
  9. 9

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

    96%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵IkomaNara, Japan

    Zone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,671 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 244 frost-free days · 1,671 chill hours · 1,445 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  11. 11

    🇯🇵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

    96%match
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    🇯🇵ŌtawaraTochigi, Japan

    Zone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 2,102 chill hours · 50 in rainZone 8a · 214 frost-free days · 2,102 chill hours · 1,268 mm rain

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

    96%match
  13. 13

    🇯🇵HitachiIbaraki, Japan

    Zone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8a · 239 frost-free days · 1,948 chill hours · 1,441 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  14. 14

    🇯🇵KashiwaraNara, Japan

    Zone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 60 in rainZone 8b · 254 frost-free days · 1,443 chill hours · 1,529 mm rain

    Shares 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
  15. 15

    🇯🇵AwaTokushima, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,388 chill hours · 1,669 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 24 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%match
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    🇯🇵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

    95%match
  18. 18

    🇯🇵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

    95%match
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    🇯🇵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
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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 24 of your 24 great-fit crops

    95%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.