Signs of spring around the world - in pictures

A longer view: from India to Canada, spring weather is arriving all over the northern hemisphere and is accompanied by flowers and festivals

  • London, UK: a woman enjoys an early taste of summer with an after-work ice cream in Regent's Park on the last official day of winter
    Spring in Regent's park

  • Washington DC, US: the Jefferson Memorial is seen as a backdrop to the cherry blossoms which are in full bloom due to the early warm weather along the east coast of the US
    Spring in Washington DC

  • Munich, Germany: people enjoy the sunshine in the beer garden near the Chinese pagoda at the English Garden. Spring-like temperatures lured many people into the open at the weekend
    Spring: A Beer Garden in Spring

  • Whitley Bay, UK: three-year-old Kadie Leigh Koch among the daffodils as the spring weather continues across the UK
    Spring: Spring weather Mar 15

  • Orense, Spain: people enjoy warm weather conditions at the banks of Minho river. Temperatures reached 26C, the highest in Spain, after an unusually dry winter season
    Spring: Warm weather conditions in northwestern Spain

  • Paris, France: young women sit in the sun on the Pont des Arts with its fence covered with padlocks left by lovers over the River Seine as unusually warm temperatures hit the French capital
    Spring: young women sit on the Pont des Arts

  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: devotees with faces covered in coloured powder seen being splashed with water during the Holi celebrations. Holi, also known as the festival of colours, is to mark the end of the winter season and the arrival of spring
    Spring: Festival of Color celebrated in Malaysia

  • South Yorkshire, UK: ladybirds in a daffodil as the spring weather continues
    Spring weather

  • Prague, Czech Republic: a mother with her child enjoy the swings during a sunny day in front of Charles Bridge in Prague. Parts of Europe are now experiencing spring-like temperatures
    Spring in Prague

  • Jimo, China: Chinese villagers watch the offerings during the ceremony of sacrifice to the sea god. The village ceremony has a 500-year-old tradition where fishermen decorate their boats, slaughter pigs, prepare offerings and burn papers in the hope of good fortune in the fishing season
    Fishermen pray to sea god

  • London, UK: office workers near Tower Bridge take their lunch in the sunshine as the spring weather continues across the UK
    Spring: Spring weather in London

  • Nice, France: people sit along the beach in front of the Mediterranean sea while enjoying a sunbathe on the Promenade des Anglais in the French Riviera
    Spring: Sunbathing on the French Rivera

  • Delhi, India: Hindu devotees put red powder on the head of a local television news reporter while celebrating Holi, the festival of colour that marks the start of spring
    Spring: Holi festival in Delhi

  • Ashford, UK: the sun sets near Ashford, Kent, ahead of a week of predicted fine weather
    Spring weather in Kent

  • Gueterfelde, Germany: A male toad clings to the back of his female partner after volunteers deposited them on the other side of a road along the toads' migration route. Volunteers from Germany's NABU wildlife protection group collect toads migrating to spawn in a nearby lake in order to save them from the passing cars on a road that lies along the migration route
    Toads

  • Paris, France: tourists and Parisians take advantage of warm temperatures in the French capital by relaxing on top of the Montparnasse Tower
    Sunbathing on rooftops in Paris

  • Tehran, Iran: a woman buys flower as she does her new year shopping ahead of Nowruz, the Iranian new year. Nowruz, which usually occurs on March 20 or 21, marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the new year on the Iranian calendar
    Nowruz festival shopping in Iran

  • Churchill, Canada: a polar bear and her cubs shortly after emerging from their winter den for the first time. The mother may not have eaten for eight months. The cubs will stay with her for approximately two and a half years Photograph: Christine Haines/Rex Features
    Spring: Polar bear mother and cub, Manitoba, Canada

  • Washington DC, US: a couple take photos beneath cherry blossom trees adjacent to the tidal basin on the National Mall. The iconic trees are beginning to bloom, with the National Park Service forecasting peak bloom between 20 and 23 March, one of the earliest years on record due to warmer-than-average temperatures
    Spring: Cherry blossom in Washington DC

  • London, UK: people enjoying the sunshine in Green Park
    Spring: Sunshine in Green Park
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