🌸 Full bloom · April 17 (2 days late)

Tuesday, April 17, 1453 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 17, 1453 — day 107 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 300th latest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1453 averaged day 102.0. 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 17 (2 days late)