🌸 Full bloom · April 20 (6 days late)

Sunday, April 20, 1924 All day

Kyoto's mountain cherries reached full bloom on April 20, 1924 — day 111 of the year. Of the 838 years on record, the 121st latest. From 812 to 1850 the average was April 15 (day 105.2). The 30 years to 1924 averaged day 103.6. 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 20 (6 days late)