Was ist los in Thessaloniki, Griechenland – übers Jahr

Hochbetrieb – Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays in Griechenland

Im Januar beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: The vardaris (15. Nov. – 15. März (meist)), Christmas and New Year (5. Dez. – 6. Jan.)

Viel los – Clean Monday, Schulferien in 3 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Feiertag

  Clean Monday

  23. Feb.KarnevalSchließungenVoll

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: The vardaris (15. Nov. – 15. März (meist))

Ruhig – laut Reisenden ruhig, Independence Day

• Festival

  Documentary Festival

  1.–20. März · meistFilmfestival

  Ten days of documentary screened in the converted warehouses on the port in early March, the city's other film festival and the one that fills its cafes with argument. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Independence Day

  25. MärzNationalfeiertagSchließungen

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Clean Monday (23. Feb.), The vardaris (15. Nov. – 15. März (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) in Griechenland

• Feiertag

  Orthodox Easter

  10.–13. Apr.Ostern & KarwocheSchließungen

  The city empties towards the villages and Halkidiki for the week and much of the centre closes. The Friday epitaphios processions from the Byzantine churches are the thing to stay for. Quelle ↗

Viel los – Schulferien in 4 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen, einer der Monate mit dem besten Wetter

Im Mai beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Orthodox Easter (10.–13. Apr.)

Hochbetrieb – Thessaloniki Pride, Summer holidays in Griechenland

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Pride

  15.–20. Juni · meistVoll

  A week of talks, film screenings and parties along the waterfront builds to a Saturday parade at the White Tower, the country's second-largest Pride after Athens. Quelle ↗

Viel los – Summer holidays in Griechenland, Schulferien in 7 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Risiko

  Heat over the gulf

  1. Juli – 25. Aug.Extreme Hitze

  A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part. The waterfront and Ano Poli are where any breeze is. Quelle ↗

Viel los – Summer holidays in Griechenland, Schulferien in 7 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Saison

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  1.–25. Aug.SchulferienSchließungen

  Thessalonikis have a coast an hour away and they use it. Half the good tavernas and bars shut for a fortnight around 15 August and the roads out on Friday afternoons are solid.

Läuft noch: Heat over the gulf (1. Juli – 25. Aug.)

Hochbetrieb – Thessaloniki International Fair, Summer holidays in Griechenland

• Festival

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  5.–13. Sep.MessewocheVollFrüh buchen

  The country's biggest trade exhibition takes over the fairgrounds for over a week and has traditionally closed with the Prime Minister's economic policy speech; hotels fill and traffic around the site gets heavy even for visitors with no reason to attend. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ohi Day

• Festival

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  1.–31. Okt.Kunstfestival

  A month of concerts and theatre across the city, closing on the feast of Agios Dimitrios on 26 October. Two days later the Ochi Day military parade shuts the waterfront. Quelle ↗

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Film Festival

  28. Okt. – 15. Nov. · meistVollFrüh buchen

  The biggest film festival in south-east Europe, ten days at the start of November in the port warehouses and the old cinemas on Aristotelous. Hotel rooms tighten around it. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Ohi Day

  28. Okt.NationalfeiertagSchließungen

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Quelle ↗

Viel los – Thessaloniki Film Festival, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Saison

  The vardaris

  15. Nov. – 15. März · meistWindsaisonRisiko

  A cold north wind funnels down the Axios valley into the gulf in winter, clears the air and takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says on the waterfront.

Läuft noch: Thessaloniki Film Festival (28. Okt. – 15. Nov. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays in Griechenland

• Feiertag

  Christmas and New Year

  5. Dez. – 6. Jan.Weihnachten & NeujahrVoll

  Lights and a market along Aristotelous down to the sea, and a city that treats the holidays as an excuse to be out. Nearly everything closes on the 25th, 26th and 1st. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: The vardaris (15. Nov. – 15. März (meist))