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Land with a climate like Yamagata, Japan

🇯🇵Yamagata, Gifu, Japan

The towns with the closest growing climate to Yamagata, Japan are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Tōon and Miyoshi. About 233,000 sq mi of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.The towns with the closest growing climate to Yamagata, Japan are Yamaguchi, Japan (99% match), Tōon and Miyoshi. About 603,000 km² of land in 6 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Zhejiang, China, North Carolina, United States and Anhui, China.

Your growing climate

Zone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,619 chill hours · 75 in rainZone 8a · 247 frost-free days · 1,619 chill hours · 1,898 mm rain

What grows in Yamagata, Japan →

Regions with the most land like yours

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    🇨🇳Zhejiang, China

    22k sq mi58k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Ānwén (87), Deqing (82)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸North Carolina, United States

    21k sq mi54k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Elizabeth City (89), Greenville (84)

  3. 3

    🇨🇳Anhui, China

    17k sq mi45k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lucheng (80), Taozhou (80)

  4. 4

    🇨🇳Hubei, China

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Longfeng (82), Yezhou (80)

  5. 5

    🇺🇸Virginia, United States

    11k sq mi28k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Newport News (92), Hampton (92)

  6. 6

    🇺🇸Maryland, United States

    8,900 sq mi23k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Salisbury (86), Easton (84)

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    🇯🇵Nagasaki, Japan

    6,200 sq mi16k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sasebo (96), Saikai (94)

  8. 8

    🇯🇵Ehime, Japan

    5,200 sq mi14k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Tōon (99), Ōzu (99)

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    🇯🇵Yamaguchi, Japan

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Yamaguchi (99), Mine (99)

  10. 10

    🇰🇷Jeollanam-do, South Korea

    4,700 sq mi12k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Haenam (82), Yeosu (82)

  11. 11

    🇰🇷Jeju-do, South Korea

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

    For example Seogwipo (93), Ara-dong (93)

  12. 12

    🇰🇷Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

    1,700 sq mi4,500 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Sinhyeon (84), Kyosai (84)

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

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇯🇵TōonEhime, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,461 chill hours · 1,744 mm rain

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

    99%match
  3. 3

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

    99%match
  4. 4

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

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇯🇵IshikiAichi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 70 in rainZone 8b · 262 frost-free days · 1,386 chill hours · 1,770 mm rain

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

    99%match
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    🇯🇵HiroshimaJapan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 73 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,251 chill hours · 1,856 mm rain

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

    99%match
  7. 7

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

    99%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 19 great-fit crops

    98%match
  9. 9

    🇯🇵MasudaShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 8b · 265 frost-free days · 1,272 chill hours · 1,688 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, walnut, peach

    98%match
  10. 10

    🇯🇵TsuMie, Japan

    Zone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 68 in rainZone 8b · 263 frost-free days · 1,305 chill hours · 1,731 mm rain

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

    98%match
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    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: walnut, peach, pear

    98%match
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    🇯🇵KinokawaWakayama, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,333 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,333 chill hours · 1,436 mm rain

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

    97%match
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    🇯🇵KudamatsuYamaguchi, Japan

    Zone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 69 in rainZone 8b · 267 frost-free days · 1,248 chill hours · 1,761 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, walnut, peach

    97%match
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    🇯🇵MatsueShimane, Japan

    Zone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 57 in rainZone 8b · 248 frost-free days · 1,551 chill hours · 1,443 mm rain

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

    97%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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, walnut

    96%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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, walnut

    96%match
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    🇯🇵KitakyushuFukuoka, Japan

    Zone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 66 in rainZone 9a · 275 frost-free days · 1,153 chill hours · 1,682 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: citrus, walnut, peach

    96%match
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    🇯🇵MieOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 77 in rainZone 8b · 260 frost-free days · 1,365 chill hours · 1,966 mm rain

    Shares 19 of your 19 great-fit crops

    96%match
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    🇯🇵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 19 of your 19 great-fit crops · Also great there: peach, pear, walnut

    96%match
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    🇯🇵NakatsuOita, Japan

    Zone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 63 in rainZone 8b · 268 frost-free days · 1,211 chill hours · 1,594 mm rain

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

    96%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.