🌸 Full bloom · April 10 (5 days early)

Wednesday, April 10, 1861 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 10, 1861 — day 100 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 228th earliest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1861 averaged day 106.6. 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 10 (5 days early)