Det sker i Winnipeg, Canada året igennem

Tætpakket — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Sæson

  Frozen river trail

  5. jan. – 5. mar. · normaltIssæson

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Deep cold (15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt)), Christmas Day closures (24. dec. – 1. jan.)

Travlt — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12.–24. feb. · normaltStor festivalTætpakket

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Frozen river trail (5. jan. – 5. mar. (normalt)), Deep cold (15. dec. – 20. feb. (normalt))

Travlt — March break / semaine de relâche i Canada

Intet nyt begynder i marts.

Stadig i gang: Frozen river trail (5. jan. – 5. mar. (normalt))

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

• Risiko

  Red River flood season

  1. apr. – 10. maj · normalt

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Kilde ↗

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

Intet nyt begynder i maj.

Stadig i gang: Red River flood season (1. apr. – 10. maj (normalt))

Travlt — Summer break i Canada, skoleferie på 2 af de markeder, der fylder stedet

• Risiko

  Mosquito season

  10. jun. – 10. aug. · normaltInsekter & sygdom

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Helligdag

  Canada Day

  1. jul.National helligdagLukningerTætpakket

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8.–14. jul. · normaltMusikfestivalTætpakketBook tidligt

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Mosquito season (10. jun. – 10. aug. (normalt))

Tætpakket — Folklorama, Summer break i Canada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2.–16. aug. · normaltStor festivalTætpakket

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Kilde ↗

Stadig i gang: Mosquito season (10. jun. – 10. aug. (normalt))

Travlt — Summer break i Canada

• Natur

  Fall goose migration

  15. sep. – 25. okt. · normaltFuglesæson

  Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26. sep.Kunstfestival

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Kilde ↗

Skuldersæson — en helt almindelig måned

Intet nyt begynder i oktober.

Stadig i gang: Fall goose migration (15. sep. – 25. okt. (normalt)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26. sep.)

Travlt — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8.–22. nov. · normaltJul & nytårTætpakket

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Kilde ↗

Tætpakket — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Risiko

  Deep cold

  15. dec. – 20. feb. · normaltEkstrem kulde

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Christmas Day closures

  24. dec. – 1. jan.Jul & nytårLukninger

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Kilde ↗