Was ist los in Winnipeg, Kanada – übers Jahr

Hochbetrieb – Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Kanada

• Saison

  Frozen river trail

  5. Jan. – 5. März · meistEissaison

  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. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Deep cold (15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist)), Christmas Day closures (24. Dez. – 1. Jan.)

Viel los – Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12.–24. Feb. · meistGroßes FestivalVoll

  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. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Frozen river trail (5. Jan. – 5. März (meist)), Deep cold (15. Dez. – 20. Feb. (meist))

Viel los – March break / semaine de relâche in Kanada

Im März beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Frozen river trail (5. Jan. – 5. März (meist))

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

• Risiko

  Red River flood season

  1. Apr. – 10. Mai · meist

  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. Quelle ↗

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

Im Mai beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Red River flood season (1. Apr. – 10. Mai (meist))

Viel los – Summer break in Kanada, Schulferien in 2 der Herkunftsländer, aus denen die Gäste kommen

• Risiko

  Mosquito season

  10. Juni – 10. Aug. · meistInsekten & Krankheiten

  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. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Feiertag

  Canada Day

  1. JuliNationalfeiertagSchließungenVoll

  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. Quelle ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8.–14. Juli · meistMusikfestivalVollFrüh buchen

  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. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Mosquito season (10. Juni – 10. Aug. (meist))

Hochbetrieb – Folklorama, Summer break in Kanada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2.–16. Aug. · meistGroßes FestivalVoll

  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. Quelle ↗

Läuft noch: Mosquito season (10. Juni – 10. Aug. (meist))

Viel los – Summer break in Kanada

• Natur

  Fall goose migration

  15. Sep. – 25. Okt. · meistVogelsaison

  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. Quelle ↗

• 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. Quelle ↗

Zwischensaison – ein gewöhnlicher Monat

Im Oktober beginnt nichts Neues.

Läuft noch: Fall goose migration (15. Sep. – 25. Okt. (meist)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26. Sep.)

Viel los – Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8.–22. Nov. · meistWeihnachten & NeujahrVoll

  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. Quelle ↗

Hochbetrieb – Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Kanada

• Risiko

  Deep cold

  15. Dez. – 20. Feb. · meistExtreme Kälte

  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. Quelle ↗

• Feiertag

  Christmas Day closures

  24. Dez. – 1. Jan.Weihnachten & NeujahrSchließungen

  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. Quelle ↗