Was ist los in Salvador, Brasilien – übers Jahr

Hochbetrieb – Lavagem do Bonfim, Reveillon and Santa Barbara

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  Lavagem do Bonfim

  15. Jan.Religiöses FestVoll

  Baianas in white wash the church steps with scented water at the end of an eight-kilometre walk from Comercio, followed by about a million people and a great many sound trucks. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Reveillon and Santa Barbara (3. Dez. – 2. Jan. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Festa de Iemanja, Carnival

• Festival

  Festa de Iemanja

  2. Feb.Religiöses FestVoll

  Rio Vermelho spends 2 February taking flowers and mirrors out to sea for the goddess of the waters; the queue at the fishermen's house starts before dawn. The biggest candomble day of the year. Quelle ↗

• Festival

  Carnival

  12.–18. Feb.VollFrüh buchen

  The largest street carnival anywhere: six days, trios eletricos on two circuits and no stadium involved. Barra and Campo Grande are impassable, and the rest of the city more or less stops. Quelle ↗

Zwischensaison – Schulferien in 3 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen, ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Feiertag

  Semana Santa long weekend

  3.–5. Apr.Ostern & KarwocheVollFrüh buchen

  Good Friday is a national holiday and the Easter weekend is one of the year's busiest for domestic travel: roads and bus stations jam, beach towns and country retreats fill with Brazilian families, and prices rise. Many shops close on Good Friday. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Carnival (12.–18. Feb.)

Viel los – Semana Santa long weekend

Im April beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Semana Santa long weekend (3.–5. Apr.)

Ruhig – einer der Monate mit dem schlechtesten Wetter

Im Mai beginnt nichts Neues.

Viel los – Sao Joao, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

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  Sao Joao

  12.–30. Juni · meistGroßes FestivalVoll

  Bahia takes the June festivals as seriously as carnival, though the best of it is inland at Cachoeira and Amargosa; the city keeps forro, quadrilhas and corn in every form. It rains on all of it. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Dois de Julho, Bahia Independence, July winter break in Brasilien

• Natur

  Humpback whale season

  1. Juli – 31. Okt. · meist

  Humpbacks come up the Bahian coast to calve, and they can be seen from the Farol da Barra as well as from boat trips out of the bay. August and September usually bring the most sightings. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Dois de Julho, Bahia Independence

  2. JuliNationalfeiertagVoll

  Bahia's own independence day: a daylong parade on foot from Largo da Lapinha to Campo Grande behind the caboclo and cabocla figures, with brass bands and politicians. It is a state holiday and feels more local than Carnival. Quelle ↗

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

Im August beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Humpback whale season (1. Juli – 31. Okt. (meist))

Viel los – Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen, einer der Monate mit dem besten Wetter

Im September beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Humpback whale season (1. Juli – 31. Okt. (meist))

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

Im Oktober beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Humpback whale season (1. Juli – 31. Okt. (meist))

Viel los – AFROPUNK Brasil

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  AFROPUNK Brasil

  7.–8. Nov.MusikfestivalVollFrüh buchen

  The Brazilian edition of the Brooklyn festival has made Salvador its home since 2021: two days of Black music, fashion and art at the Parque de Exposicoes, with Brazilian and international headliners. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Reveillon and Santa Barbara, Nossa Senhora da Conceicao da Praia

• Feiertag

  Reveillon and Santa Barbara

  3. Dez. – 2. Jan. · meistWeihnachten & NeujahrVollFrüh buchen

  December opens with Santa Barbara at the Mercado and closes with the free new year concerts on the Barra seafront. Beds along the coast go months ahead at their highest rates of the year. Quelle ↗

• Festival

  Nossa Senhora da Conceicao da Praia

  8. Dez.Religiöses FestVoll

  The feast of Bahia's patron saint, and a city holiday: mass in the open air and a procession through Comercio below the Elevador Lacerda. It opens the run of summer street festivals that ends with Carnival. Quelle ↗