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National Cherry Blossom Festival

Washington, DC · Nature

When

March 20 – April 11, 2027

Where

Tidal Basin · Washington · DC

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A multi-week festival around Washington's Tidal Basin celebrating the flowering of the cherry trees Japan gave the city in 1912, with a parade, a kite festival, and cultural programming across the city. The 2027 edition runs March 20 through April 11.

The history within reach

• National Cherry Blossom Festivalsame spot

  A multi-week festival around Washington's Tidal Basin celebrating the flowering of the cherry trees Japan gave the city in 1912, with a parade, a kite festival, and cultural programming across the city.

• Cherry trees planted at the Tidal Basin0.1 mi

  A first shipment from Japan in 1910 arrived diseased and was burned on the Mall.

• Washington Monument completed0.3 mi

  Begun in 1848, halted for over twenty years by money and war, and finished with marble from a different quarry, the colour change is visible a third of the way up.

• Credit Union Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run0.3 mi

  Ten mile road race through DC's cherry blossom and monument corridor, run for over 50 years and now hosting the USATF National 10 Mile Championship, with tens of thousands applying through a lottery..

• Independence Day on the National Mall0.3 mi

  Fireworks over the Mall on the country's 250th Independence Day, staged between the Washington Monument and the Capitol..