Sapporo: cherry first flowering · 2026 reporting season
Sapporo’s 2026 first-flowering record becomes more useful when read with its full-bloom partner. The two observations show a 6-day interval; they do not describe the length of a viewing season.
Latest opening, shortest interval
Sapporo opened after the other five stations in this sample, but its six-day interval to full bloom was the shortest. The order of first opening and the pace of progression are different comparisons. Neither establishes how long blossoms remained attractive after full bloom.
Sources: Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO · Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
Read the normal comparison separately
JMA’s 2026 table puts this first-flowering observation 13 days earlier than its listed normal first-flowering date of 1 May.
Sources: JMA: 2026 first-flowering table
A northern date is not a whole-island date
This one Sapporo observation is not a report for every Hokkaido destination. For an actual trip, choose the place and cultivar you want to see, then look for its current local condition report. A late-April station milestone cannot be stretched into a promise for a mountain route or another city.
Sources: Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO · Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
Source-linked comparison facts
- Paired first flowering
- 2026-04-18
Sources: Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO · Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
- Paired full bloom
- 2026-04-24
Sources: Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO · Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
- Calculated progression interval
- 6 days; not viewing duration
Sources: Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO · Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
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- Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO
Identity and factual fields in the preserved dated source record; no new live-status verification
- Preserved JMA record: Sapporo: cherry full bloom · 2026 reporting season
Paired dated observation from the same accepted 2026 source snapshot
- JMA: 2026 first-flowering table
Only the stated station normal-day comparison; calendar differences elsewhere are calculated from preserved sample observations
Preserved source record and metadata
Official reporting season: 2026 Station: Sapporo (札幌) Observed phase: first flowering (開花) Observation cell: 4月18日 Observed date: 2026-04-18 Source: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/sakura/data/sakura_kaika.html The date comes from the observed-date column, not the normal or previous-year columns. The reporting year is verified against the visible h1 and page title; the stale table summary attribute is ignored. Station code 412 and the reviewed English station label are carried over from the exact Japanese station identity in the historical baseline; the current HTML identifies stations by name. GIZUMO selected six stations, rendered the two phase labels in English and normalized observed dates. No source metadata-update timestamp is supplied for individual observations. HTTP retrieval or Last-Modified times are not observation dates. These are past observations in the current reporting-season table, not live tourist-location conditions or forecasts. A zero in the separately preserved cumulative CSV does not establish that this HTML source has no current-year observation. Source: Japan Meteorological Agency, under its reviewed PDL 1.0 public-data terms. No images, event schedules or underlying artwork are included.
- place
- Sapporo (札幌); reviewed JMA station mapping 412
- season
- 2026 cherry-observation reporting season
- observation Date
- 2026-04-18
- condition
- First flowering observed (dated station observation)
Japan Meteorological Agency · Current-season observation table; processed by GIZUMO
PDL 1.0 · JMA public data; English presentation and date processing by GIZUMO