🌸 Full bloom · April 22 (8 days late)

Thursday, April 22, 1176 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 22, 1176 — day 113 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 77th latest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1176 averaged day 106.9. Before modern weather records, the date comes from diaries and chronicles of flower-viewing parties at the imperial court, temples and shrines, gathered by Yasuyuki Aono. Data: Aono and Kazui (2008), Aono and Saito (2010), Katata (2026), via Our World in Data (CC BY 4.0). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/date-of-the-peak-cherry-tree-blossom-in-kyoto

🌸 Full bloom · April 22 (8 days late)