CHERRY BLOSSOM FORECAST
Updated May 4th
札幌4/15 仙台3/26 新潟3/27 東京3/14 名古屋3/17 大阪3/19 福岡3/18

Forecast Comment

Updated Mar 6, 2023


This year's cherry blossoms will bloom earlier than usual, and it is likely that there will be places where the cherry blossoms will bloom earlier than usual.

First bloom / Full bloom Forecast

Kanto/Koshin

City First bloom Full bloom
Mito 3/20 3/27
Utsunomiya 3/20 3/30
Maebashi 3/18 3/24
Kumagaya 3/17 3/26
Tokyo 3/14 3/22
Choshi 3/22 3/30
Yokohama 3/15 3/25
Nagano 3/28 4/3
Kofu 3/17 3/24

Tokai/Hokuriku

City First bloom Full bloom
Shizuoka 3/19 3/29
Nagoya 3/17 3/27
Gifu 3/16 3/23
Tsu 3/22 3/27
Niigata 3/27 3/31
Toyama 3/22 3/27
Kanazawa 3/23 3/30
Fukui 3/22 3/27

Kinki

City First bloom Full bloom
Hikone 3/23 3/30
Kyoto 3/17 3/24
Osaka 3/19 3/27
Kobe 3/24 3/31
Nara 3/20 3/27
Wakayama 3/20 3/25

Chugoku/Shikoku

City First bloom Full bloom
Okayama 3/22 3/27
Hiroshima 3/19 3/28
Matsue 3/20 3/27
Tottori 3/19 3/24
Takamatsu 3/22 3/29
Tokushima 3/23 3/31
Matsuyama 3/18 3/28
Kochi 3/17 3/24
Shimonoseki 3/22 3/31

Kyushu

City First bloom Full bloom
Fukuoka 3/18 3/26
Oita 3/24 4/3
Nagasaki 3/21 3/30
Saga 3/22 3/31
Kumamoto 3/22 3/29
Miyazaki 3/19 3/30
Kagoshima 3/24 4/5

Amami/Okinawa

City First bloom Full bloom
Naze 1/20 2/1
Naha 1/7 1/30
Minamidaitojima 2/7 ---
Miyakojima 1/15 2/3
Ishigakijima 2/3 ---

Tohoku

City First bloom Full bloom
Aomori 4/7 4/11
Akita 4/4 4/7
Morioka 4/3 4/6
Sendai 3/26 3/31
Yamagata 3/31 4/5
Fukushima 3/24 3/28

Hokkaido

City First bloom Full bloom
Sapporo 4/15 4/21
Wakkanai 5/3 5/5
Asahikawa 4/25 4/28
Abashiri 4/28 5/1
Kushiro 5/1 5/4
Obihiro 4/20 4/22
Muroran 4/21 4/27
Hakodate 4/14 4/20

The colored places indicate points which already have passed first or full bloom.
* Okinawa and Amami regions are areas where forecasts are not provided.
* Hokkaido (Wakkanai, Asahikawa, Abashiri, Obihiro, Kushiro) has a different species of cherry blossom trees - Ezoyamazakuara.

About WeatherMap Cherry Blossom Forecast

Cherry Blossom Forecast 2023 Schedule

1st January 26th
2nd February 2nd
3rd February 9th
4th February 16th

After March 2nd, we will update the first bloom and full bloom reports every day and provide forecasts every Monday and Thursday.

Blossom Criteria

First bloom
it means observation trees have 5 to 6 flowers that have bloomed.
Full bloom
it means 80% of the observation tree flowers have bloomed.

The forecast is based on the bloom timeline of the official observation tree.
We forecast the "Date of First Bloom" and "Date of Full Bloom" according to these meanings, which are the same with JMA's observation rules.
On average, tree fully blooms a week after first bloom.

Forecast Criteria

The forecast is based on the bloom timeline of the official observation trees that are located at the 58 Japan Meteorological Agency offices across the country.
We release the forecast for 53 points in Japan except for Amami and Okinawa regions where there are no official observation trees available.