Det sker i Colmar, France året igennem

Travlt — Christmas holidays i France, skoleferie på 6 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

Intet nyt begynder i januar.

Tætpakket — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays i France

• Festival

  Carnaval de Colmar

  10. feb. – 20. mar. · normaltKarnevalTætpakket

  The Alsatian carnival season ends with a children's parade and the big afternoon cavalcade of floats and bands through the centre, a weekend that moves with the Lenten calendar. Free and very local. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays i France

• Festival

  Festival de Paques

  28. mar. – 6. apr.Påske & den stille uge

  Nine days of chamber music in the churches and the theatre in the run-up to Easter, and the one time in spring the town has a reason to be busy at night. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Carnaval de Colmar (10. feb. – 20. mar. (normalt))

Travlt — Spring holidays i France, skoleferie på 5 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

Intet nyt begynder i april.

Stadig i gang: Festival de Paques (28. mar. – 6. apr.)

Tætpakket — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helligdag

  May holidays and ponts

  1.–25. majNational helligdagTætpakketBook tidligtLukninger

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Kilde ↗

Travlt — Fete de la Musique, skoleferie på 4 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Festival

  Fete de la Musique

  21. jun.MusikfestivalTætpakket

  France's midsummer music night, with stages and amateur bands on the squares and street corners of the old town from early evening. Free, loud, and the one night the Petite Venise terraces stay full late. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: May holidays and ponts (1.–25. maj)

Tætpakket — rejsende beskriver det som højsæson, Bastille Day (14 juillet)

• Festival

  Festival International de Colmar

  5.–14. jul.MusikfestivalBook tidligt

  Twenty-odd classical concerts in the Eglise Saint-Matthieu, the municipal theatre and the Koifhus over ten days in early July, including free lunchtime recitals by young players. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13.–14. jul.National helligdagTætpakketLukninger

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Foire aux Vins d'Alsace

  31. jul. – 9. aug.Mad- & drikkefestivalTætpakketBook tidligt

  Ten days at the Parc Expo where the wine fair is the daytime half and stadium-sized concerts are the evening one. Rooms in the old town go with it, so book before the line-up is announced. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — Foire aux Vins d'Alsace, Summer holidays i France

Intet nyt begynder i august.

Stadig i gang: Foire aux Vins d'Alsace (31. jul. – 9. aug.)

Travlt — Colmar Jazz Festival, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Sæson

  Vendanges on the wine route

  1. sep. – 20. okt. · normaltHøst

  Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest. Growers who normally pour at the door are out in the rows instead.

• Festival

  Colmar Jazz Festival

  21.–26. sep.MusikfestivalTætpakket

  A week of jazz in the second half of September, ticketed evenings at the municipal theatre alongside free concerts around town. It lands in harvest season, so the wine villages are busy the same weekends. Kilde ↗

Travlt — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skoleferie på 3 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

Intet nyt begynder i oktober.

Stadig i gang: Vendanges on the wine route (1. sep. – 20. okt. (normalt))

Tætpakket — Festival du livre de Colmar, Christmas markets

• Festival

  Festival du livre de Colmar

  21.–22. nov.KunstfestivalTætpakket

  A free book festival at the Parc des Expositions on a late-November weekend, with a couple of hundred publishers and authors signing. It arrives the same weekend the Christmas markets open, so rooms tighten. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Christmas markets

  23. nov. – 29. dec.Jul & nytårTætpakket

  Six markets across the old town from the end of November, and the reason coaches queue on the ring road every December weekend. Go on a weekday morning or accept walking at the pace of the crowd. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — Christmas markets, Christmas holidays i France

Intet nyt begynder i december.

Stadig i gang: Christmas markets (23. nov. – 29. dec.)