🌸 Full bloom · April 20 (5 days late)

Friday, April 20, 1358 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 20, 1358 — day 110 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 179th latest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1358 averaged day 109.8. 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 20 (5 days late)