🌸 Full bloom · April 21 (6 days late)

Thursday, April 21, 1519 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 21, 1519 — day 111 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 136th latest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1519 averaged day 106.2. 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 21 (6 days late)