Eissaison – Monat für Monat rund um die Welt

Eishöhlen, gefrorene Wasserfälle, Schlittschuhlaufen auf dem Kanal, Hundeschlitten und Eisstraßen – die Wochen, in denen die Kälte die Attraktion ist.

48 Reiseziele auf SeasonMap, innerhalb jedes Monats nach Komfort-Score gerankt – denn es geht nicht nur darum, wo die Saison läuft, sondern auch darum, ob sich das Wetter währenddessen lohnt.

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Wann es so weit ist

Zahl der Reiseziele mit Eissaison in diesem Monat. Die Zeitfenster verschieben sich jedes Jahr etwas.

Eissaison im Januar

  1. Sendai 🇯🇵 JapanZao snow monsters · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Rime freezes onto the firs on the Zao ridge, about two hours west, until they are unrecognisable lumps.57
  2. Matsumoto 🇯🇵 JapanCastle Ice Sculpture Festival · 20. Jan. – 5. Feb. (meist)Carvers from around Japan work through a late-January weekend in the castle park, and the finished ice sculptures are lit up in front of the keep on the Sunday morning before they soften.57
  3. Balaton 🇭🇺 UngarnLake ice · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)In a cold winter the lake freezes right across and people walk, skate and sail iceboats on it; in a mild one it barely crusts at the reedy edges.51
  4. Peking 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaSkating on Houhai · 20. Dez. – 15. Feb. (meist)Once the lake ice is thick enough the city opens rinks on Houhai and Shichahai, with hired chair-sledges and no pretence of elegance.48
  5. Takayama 🇯🇵 JapanShirakawa-go winter light-up · 15. Jan. – 20. Feb. (meist)The thatched village an hour west is lit on a handful of winter evenings only, and both the parking and the viewpoint run on an advance ballot.44
  6. Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenThe Rink at PPG Place · 14. Nov. – 1. März (meist)The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.43
  7. Hallstatt 🇦🇹 ÖsterreichIce rink at Echerntal · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)When cold snaps hold, a small outdoor rink opens in the Echern Valley behind the village, with skate hire in town, one of the few organised things to do in Hallstatt's quiet winter weeks.42
  8. Pyeongchang 🇰🇷 SüdkoreaPyeongchang Trout Festival · 5. Jan. – 10. Feb. (meist)A month of holes cut in the Odaecheon for ice fishing, plus the bare-handed catching pool that is the reason most people come.41
  9. Chicago 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating in Millennium Park · 15. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue.40
  10. Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenHyalite ice-climbing season · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The canyon road is plowed through the winter specifically to keep the frozen falls reachable, and there are more routes up there than anywhere else in the lower 48.40
  11. Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating at Campus Martius · 20. Nov. – 25. Feb. (meist)The downtown square turns into a rink under the city tree from late November, and it is the anchor of what winter nightlife downtown has.39
  12. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.38
  13. Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiCildir lake ice season · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)The lake an hour north freezes hard enough to stand on, and the Golden Horse Crystal Ice Festival runs horse-drawn sleighs, cirit and ice fishing on the ice each February.38
  14. Madison 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake Mendota ice season · 20. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The freeze and thaw of Mendota have been recorded since 1855, which makes the ice here one of the longest climate records anywhere, and it is arriving later.37
  15. Wladiwostok 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur Bay ice · 20. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The bay freezes over and the city walks out onto it: ice fishing tents in rows off the Sportivnaya embankment, kite skiers, and icebreakers keeping a channel open to the port.36
  16. Breckenridge 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIntl Snow Sculpture Championships · 20. Jan. – 5. Feb. (meist)Teams carve twenty-five-ton blocks by hand over five days, then the finished pieces stand on Main Street for a week until they slump.36
  17. Stockholm 🇸🇪 SchwedenSkating on natural ice · 20. Dez. – 10. März (meist)Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.34
  18. Edmonton 🇨🇦 KanadaIce on Whyte · 24. Jan. – 8. Feb. (meist)International ice carvers compete along Whyte Avenue with an ice bar and fire pits outside, an Old Strathcona tradition since 2003 recently rebranded as Chiseled.34
  19. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.34
  20. Banff 🇨🇦 KanadaSkating on Lake Louise · 20. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The hotel clears a rink and a long track on the lake once the ice takes, usually just before Christmas.33
  21. Indiana-Dunes-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenShelf ice on the shore · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Waves build a ridge of ice mounds along the beach that looks solid and is hollow underneath; people fall through it into the lake most winters.33
  22. Harbin 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaIce and Snow World · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)The ice city is cut from the Songhua and rebuilt every winter, with exhibits open from around the third week of December through late February.32
  23. Chabarowsk 🇷🇺 RusslandIce Fantasy sculpture festival · 1.–31. Jan. (meist)An ice-carving competition held every January since the early 2000s, using blocks cut from the Amur.32
  24. Ottawa 🇨🇦 KanadaRideau Canal Skateway · 5. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Almost eight kilometres of frozen canal is ploughed into something people commute to work on.32
  25. Yellowstone-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenOversnow winter season · 15. Dez. – 15. März (meist)Between mid-December and mid-March the interior is reachable only by guided snowcoach or snowmobile, booked months ahead.31

… und 19 weitere im Januar.

Was ist los weltweit im Januar →

Eissaison im Februar

  1. Sendai 🇯🇵 JapanZao snow monsters · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Rime freezes onto the firs on the Zao ridge, about two hours west, until they are unrecognisable lumps.63
  2. Balaton 🇭🇺 UngarnLake ice · 5. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)In a cold winter the lake freezes right across and people walk, skate and sail iceboats on it; in a mild one it barely crusts at the reedy edges.62
  3. Matsumoto 🇯🇵 JapanCastle Ice Sculpture Festival · 20. Jan. – 5. Feb. (meist)Carvers from around Japan work through a late-January weekend in the castle park, and the finished ice sculptures are lit up in front of the keep on the Sunday morning before they soften.62
  4. Peking 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaSkating on Houhai · 20. Dez. – 15. Feb. (meist)Once the lake ice is thick enough the city opens rinks on Houhai and Shichahai, with hired chair-sledges and no pretence of elegance.59
  5. Hallstatt 🇦🇹 ÖsterreichIce rink at Echerntal · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)When cold snaps hold, a small outdoor rink opens in the Echern Valley behind the village, with skate hire in town, one of the few organised things to do in Hallstatt's quiet winter weeks.57
  6. Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenThe Rink at PPG Place · 14. Nov. – 1. März (meist)The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.52
  7. Takayama 🇯🇵 JapanShirakawa-go winter light-up · 15. Jan. – 20. Feb. (meist)The thatched village an hour west is lit on a handful of winter evenings only, and both the parking and the viewpoint run on an advance ballot.51
  8. Chicago 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating in Millennium Park · 15. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue.49
  9. Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating at Campus Martius · 20. Nov. – 25. Feb. (meist)The downtown square turns into a rink under the city tree from late November, and it is the anchor of what winter nightlife downtown has.49
  10. Pyeongchang 🇰🇷 SüdkoreaPyeongchang Trout Festival · 5. Jan. – 10. Feb. (meist)A month of holes cut in the Odaecheon for ice fishing, plus the bare-handed catching pool that is the reason most people come.48
  11. Kars 🇹🇷 TürkeiCildir lake ice season · 1. Jan. – 28. Feb. (meist)The lake an hour north freezes hard enough to stand on, and the Golden Horse Crystal Ice Festival runs horse-drawn sleighs, cirit and ice fishing on the ice each February.46
  12. Stockholm 🇸🇪 SchwedenSkating on natural ice · 20. Dez. – 10. März (meist)Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.45
  13. Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenHyalite ice-climbing season · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The canyon road is plowed through the winter specifically to keep the frozen falls reachable, and there are more routes up there than anywhere else in the lower 48.45
  14. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.44
  15. Wladiwostok 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur Bay ice · 20. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The bay freezes over and the city walks out onto it: ice fishing tents in rows off the Sportivnaya embankment, kite skiers, and icebreakers keeping a channel open to the port.44
  16. Madison 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake Mendota ice season · 20. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The freeze and thaw of Mendota have been recorded since 1855, which makes the ice here one of the longest climate records anywhere, and it is arriving later.44
  17. Riga 🇱🇻 LettlandJelgava Ice Sculpture Festival · 1.–16. Feb. (meist)Sculptors from several countries carve on the island in Jelgava, a short train ride south-west of Riga, over a weekend in early February.42
  18. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.41
  19. Breckenridge 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenIntl Snow Sculpture Championships · 20. Jan. – 5. Feb. (meist)Teams carve twenty-five-ton blocks by hand over five days, then the finished pieces stand on Main Street for a week until they slump.40
  20. Edmonton 🇨🇦 KanadaIce on Whyte · 24. Jan. – 8. Feb. (meist)International ice carvers compete along Whyte Avenue with an ice bar and fire pits outside, an Old Strathcona tradition since 2003 recently rebranded as Chiseled.39
  21. Minsk 🇧🇾 BelarusIce season · 10. Dez. – 5. März (meist)Outdoor rinks go up in the parks and on Victory Square, and the Minsk Sea reservoir north of the city gets its ice fishing huts.39
  22. Ottawa 🇨🇦 KanadaRideau Canal Skateway · 5. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Almost eight kilometres of frozen canal is ploughed into something people commute to work on.39
  23. Helsinki 🇫🇮 FinnlandSea ice and winter swimming · 1. Jan. – 20. März (meist)The avanto — a hole cut in the ice beside a sauna — is what a Helsinki winter is actually for, and the public places are busiest now.38
  24. Indiana-Dunes-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenShelf ice on the shore · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Waves build a ridge of ice mounds along the beach that looks solid and is hollow underneath; people fall through it into the lake most winters.38
  25. Jekaterinburg 🇷🇺 RusslandIce sculpture season · 20. Dez. – 25. Feb. (meist)Blocks cut from the ponds go up as a temporary town in the centre and stay solid until the thaw takes them, which is usually late February.38

… und 21 weitere im Februar.

Was ist los weltweit im Februar →

Eissaison im März

  1. Sendai 🇯🇵 JapanZao snow monsters · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Rime freezes onto the firs on the Zao ridge, about two hours west, until they are unrecognisable lumps.69
  2. Chicago 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating in Millennium Park · 15. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue.64
  3. Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenThe Rink at PPG Place · 14. Nov. – 1. März (meist)The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.64
  4. Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenHyalite ice-climbing season · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The canyon road is plowed through the winter specifically to keep the frozen falls reachable, and there are more routes up there than anywhere else in the lower 48.61
  5. Madison 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake Mendota ice season · 20. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The freeze and thaw of Mendota have been recorded since 1855, which makes the ice here one of the longest climate records anywhere, and it is arriving later.60
  6. Stockholm 🇸🇪 SchwedenSkating on natural ice · 20. Dez. – 10. März (meist)Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.59
  7. Wladiwostok 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur Bay ice · 20. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The bay freezes over and the city walks out onto it: ice fishing tents in rows off the Sportivnaya embankment, kite skiers, and icebreakers keeping a channel open to the port.59
  8. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.56
  9. Minsk 🇧🇾 BelarusIce season · 10. Dez. – 5. März (meist)Outdoor rinks go up in the parks and on Victory Square, and the Minsk Sea reservoir north of the city gets its ice fishing huts.55
  10. Irkutsk 🇷🇺 RusslandBaikal ice season · 15. Jan. – 15. Apr. (meist)The lake an hour away freezes solid from about mid-January to mid-April, a metre or more thick and clear enough in places to see straight down.54
  11. Helsinki 🇫🇮 FinnlandSea ice and winter swimming · 1. Jan. – 20. März (meist)The avanto — a hole cut in the ice beside a sauna — is what a Helsinki winter is actually for, and the public places are busiest now.52
  12. Nischni Nowgorod 🇷🇺 RusslandVolga and Oka freeze · 5. Dez. – 25. März (meist)Both rivers set at the confluence below the kremlin, the boats stop, and ice fishermen dot the white from the Strelka downstream.51
  13. Moskau 🇷🇺 RusslandOutdoor skating rinks open · 25. Nov. – 10. März (meist)Gorky Park, VDNKh and Red Square freeze their rinks from late November and keep them going until the thaw.50
  14. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.50
  15. Chabarowsk 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur frozen over · 20. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)The river the city is built along freezes for close to five months, the hydrofoils stop, and people walk and ski where the boats were.50
  16. Winnipeg 🇨🇦 KanadaFrozen river trail · 5. Jan. – 5. März (meist)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.50
  17. Indiana-Dunes-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenShelf ice on the shore · 1. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Waves build a ridge of ice mounds along the beach that looks solid and is hollow underneath; people fall through it into the lake most winters.49
  18. Kasan 🇷🇺 RusslandFrozen Volga and Kazanka · 15. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The rivers set hard enough to walk on and the city moves onto them: ice fishing huts off the Kazanka, skates, and the Kremlin walls lit above a white plain.49
  19. Banff 🇨🇦 KanadaSkating on Lake Louise · 20. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The hotel clears a rink and a long track on the lake once the ice takes, usually just before Christmas.48
  20. Ottawa 🇨🇦 KanadaRideau Canal Skateway · 5. Jan. – 5. März (meist)Almost eight kilometres of frozen canal is ploughed into something people commute to work on.48
  21. Rovaniemi 🇫🇮 FinnlandHusky, reindeer and snowmobile season · 10. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The safaris need a frozen base, so the season runs roughly from mid-December to early April rather than the whole cold half of the year.47
  22. Kiruna 🇸🇪 SchwedenIcehotel season · 1. Dez. – 15. Apr. (meist)The hotel at Jukkasjarvi is rebuilt each winter from Torne river ice, opens at the start of December and melts in spring; a year-round wing runs alongside it.47
  23. Fairbanks 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWorld Ice Art Championships · 15. Feb. – 5. Apr. (meist)Carvers from a dozen countries work blocks quarried out of a local pond, and the finished park stays lit and open into early April because it is cold enough to.47
  24. Nowosibirsk 🇷🇺 RusslandOb Sea ice · 25. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The reservoir south of the city freezes hard enough for cars, and the shore fills with ice fishing tents, kite skiers and snowmobiles.46
  25. Yellowstone-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenOversnow winter season · 15. Dez. – 15. März (meist)Between mid-December and mid-March the interior is reachable only by guided snowcoach or snowmobile, booked months ahead.44

… und 10 weitere im März.

Was ist los weltweit im März →

Eissaison im April

  1. Nowosibirsk 🇷🇺 RusslandOb Sea ice · 25. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The reservoir south of the city freezes hard enough for cars, and the shore fills with ice fishing tents, kite skiers and snowmobiles.71
  2. Chabarowsk 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur frozen over · 20. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)The river the city is built along freezes for close to five months, the hydrofoils stop, and people walk and ski where the boats were.71
  3. Irkutsk 🇷🇺 RusslandBaikal ice season · 15. Jan. – 15. Apr. (meist)The lake an hour away freezes solid from about mid-January to mid-April, a metre or more thick and clear enough in places to see straight down.71
  4. Madison 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake Mendota ice season · 20. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The freeze and thaw of Mendota have been recorded since 1855, which makes the ice here one of the longest climate records anywhere, and it is arriving later.70
  5. Fairbanks 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWorld Ice Art Championships · 15. Feb. – 5. Apr. (meist)Carvers from a dozen countries work blocks quarried out of a local pond, and the finished park stays lit and open into early April because it is cold enough to.68
  6. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.66
  7. Rovaniemi 🇫🇮 FinnlandHusky, reindeer and snowmobile season · 10. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The safaris need a frozen base, so the season runs roughly from mid-December to early April rather than the whole cold half of the year.64
  8. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.61
  9. Jakutsk 🇷🇺 RusslandLena ice road · 15. Dez. – 15. Apr. (meist)There is no bridge over the Lena anywhere in Sakha, so once the ice is thick enough the river becomes the road and the trucks run supplies out over it.59
  10. Kiruna 🇸🇪 SchwedenIcehotel season · 1. Dez. – 15. Apr. (meist)The hotel at Jukkasjarvi is rebuilt each winter from Torne river ice, opens at the start of December and melts in spring; a year-round wing runs alongside it.57
  11. Ilulissat 🇬🇱 GrönlandDog sledding season · 5. Jan. – 15. Apr. (meist)This is the largest sledding district in Greenland and the teams work once the bay ice takes, roughly January to April.55
  12. Magadan 🇷🇺 RusslandSea of Okhotsk frozen · 15. Dez. – 20. Apr. (meist)The bay freezes over for a third of the year and people simply walk out onto it; icebreakers keep a lane open for the port.53
  13. Crater-Lake-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter · 1. Nov. – 30. Apr.One of the snowiest places in the country: the north entrance and Rim Drive shut, the west and south roads are ploughed, and rangers run snowshoe walks from Rim Village.49
  14. Longyearbyen 🇸🇯 Svalbard und Jan MayenSnowmobile and sun-winter season · 1. März – 16. MaiLight, snow cover and frozen fjords all at once: this is the window for the long snowmobile runs to the east coast and the ice caves, and for dog sledding on real snow rather than gravel.48

Was ist los weltweit im April →

Eissaison im Mai

  1. Fairbanks 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenNenana Ice Classic breakup · 20. Apr. – 15. Mai (meist)An hour down the road a tripod stands on the frozen Tanana and the whole state bets on the minute it moves; the record runs unbroken since 1917.85
  2. Longyearbyen 🇸🇯 Svalbard und Jan MayenSnowmobile and sun-winter season · 1. März – 16. MaiLight, snow cover and frozen fjords all at once: this is the window for the long snowmobile runs to the east coast and the ice caves, and for dog sledding on real snow rather than gravel.57

Was ist los weltweit im Mai →

Eissaison im November

  1. Chicago 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating in Millennium Park · 15. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue.62
  2. Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenThe Rink at PPG Place · 14. Nov. – 1. März (meist)The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.62
  3. Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating at Campus Martius · 20. Nov. – 25. Feb. (meist)The downtown square turns into a rink under the city tree from late November, and it is the anchor of what winter nightlife downtown has.60
  4. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.52
  5. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.48
  6. Moskau 🇷🇺 RusslandOutdoor skating rinks open · 25. Nov. – 10. März (meist)Gorky Park, VDNKh and Red Square freeze their rinks from late November and keep them going until the thaw.41
  7. Chabarowsk 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur frozen over · 20. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)The river the city is built along freezes for close to five months, the hydrofoils stop, and people walk and ski where the boats were.40
  8. Crater-Lake-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenDeep winter · 1. Nov. – 30. Apr.One of the snowiest places in the country: the north entrance and Rim Drive shut, the west and south roads are ploughed, and rangers run snowshoe walks from Rim Village.39
  9. Vík í Mýrdal 🇮🇸 IslandIce cave season · 1. Nov. – 31. März (meist)Most of Iceland's natural ice caves are only safe in the cold half of the year; the one under Myrdalsjokull up the road runs longer but closes at short notice for weather and glacier movement.35
  10. Nowosibirsk 🇷🇺 RusslandOb Sea ice · 25. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The reservoir south of the city freezes hard enough for cars, and the shore fills with ice fishing tents, kite skiers and snowmobiles.32

Was ist los weltweit im November →

Eissaison im Dezember

  1. Peking 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaSkating on Houhai · 20. Dez. – 15. Feb. (meist)Once the lake ice is thick enough the city opens rinks on Houhai and Shichahai, with hired chair-sledges and no pretence of elegance.50
  2. Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenThe Rink at PPG Place · 14. Nov. – 1. März (meist)The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.49
  3. Chicago 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating in Millennium Park · 15. Nov. – 5. März (meist)The McCormick Tribune rink opens under the Bean in mid-November and is free if you bring your own skates; the ribbon in Maggie Daley Park next door is the better ice and the longer queue.46
  4. Detroit 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenSkating at Campus Martius · 20. Nov. – 25. Feb. (meist)The downtown square turns into a rink under the city tree from late November, and it is the anchor of what winter nightlife downtown has.46
  5. Hallstatt 🇦🇹 ÖsterreichIce rink at Echerntal · 15. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)When cold snaps hold, a small outdoor rink opens in the Echern Valley behind the village, with skate hire in town, one of the few organised things to do in Hallstatt's quiet winter weeks.45
  6. Bryce-Canyon-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenWall Street closed for winter · 1. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The switchbacks down Wall Street shut once ice and rockfall set in, so the Navajo Loop runs one way only until spring.42
  7. Bozeman 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenHyalite ice-climbing season · 1. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The canyon road is plowed through the winter specifically to keep the frozen falls reachable, and there are more routes up there than anywhere else in the lower 48.42
  8. Madison 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenLake Mendota ice season · 20. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The freeze and thaw of Mendota have been recorded since 1855, which makes the ice here one of the longest climate records anywhere, and it is arriving later.41
  9. Wladiwostok 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur Bay ice · 20. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The bay freezes over and the city walks out onto it: ice fishing tents in rows off the Sportivnaya embankment, kite skiers, and icebreakers keeping a channel open to the port.39
  10. Stockholm 🇸🇪 SchwedenSkating on natural ice · 20. Dez. – 10. März (meist)Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.38
  11. Leh 🇮🇳 IndienPangong and the lakes freeze · 20. Dez. – 10. März (meist)The high lakes set solid from about the turn of the year, and the road out to Pangong runs on cleared snow when it runs at all.34
  12. Minsk 🇧🇾 BelarusIce season · 10. Dez. – 5. März (meist)Outdoor rinks go up in the parks and on Victory Square, and the Minsk Sea reservoir north of the city gets its ice fishing huts.33
  13. Starý Smokovec 🇸🇰 SlowakeiTatra Temple of Ice at Hrebienok · 14. Nov. – 19. Apr. (meist)Each winter an ice replica of a famous church is carved at the top station of the Hrebienok funicular, free to enter and lit from inside.32
  14. Moskau 🇷🇺 RusslandOutdoor skating rinks open · 25. Nov. – 10. März (meist)Gorky Park, VDNKh and Red Square freeze their rinks from late November and keep them going until the thaw.31
  15. Nischni Nowgorod 🇷🇺 RusslandVolga and Oka freeze · 5. Dez. – 25. März (meist)Both rivers set at the confluence below the kremlin, the boats stop, and ice fishermen dot the white from the Strelka downstream.30
  16. Banff 🇨🇦 KanadaSkating on Lake Louise · 20. Dez. – 15. März (meist)The hotel clears a rink and a long track on the lake once the ice takes, usually just before Christmas.29
  17. Harbin 🇨🇳 Volksrepublik ChinaIce and Snow World · 20. Dez. – 28. Feb. (meist)The ice city is cut from the Songhua and rebuilt every winter, with exhibits open from around the third week of December through late February.29
  18. Chabarowsk 🇷🇺 RusslandAmur frozen over · 20. Nov. – 15. Apr. (meist)The river the city is built along freezes for close to five months, the hydrofoils stop, and people walk and ski where the boats were.29
  19. Jekaterinburg 🇷🇺 RusslandIce sculpture season · 20. Dez. – 25. Feb. (meist)Blocks cut from the ponds go up as a temporary town in the centre and stay solid until the thaw takes them, which is usually late February.29
  20. Kasan 🇷🇺 RusslandFrozen Volga and Kazanka · 15. Dez. – 20. März (meist)The rivers set hard enough to walk on and the city moves onto them: ice fishing huts off the Kazanka, skates, and the Kremlin walls lit above a white plain.29
  21. Yellowstone-Nationalpark 🇺🇸 Vereinigte StaatenOversnow winter season · 15. Dez. – 15. März (meist)Between mid-December and mid-March the interior is reachable only by guided snowcoach or snowmobile, booked months ahead.28
  22. Rovaniemi 🇫🇮 FinnlandHusky, reindeer and snowmobile season · 10. Dez. – 5. Apr. (meist)The safaris need a frozen base, so the season runs roughly from mid-December to early April rather than the whole cold half of the year.28
  23. Kiruna 🇸🇪 SchwedenIcehotel season · 1. Dez. – 15. Apr. (meist)The hotel at Jukkasjarvi is rebuilt each winter from Torne river ice, opens at the start of December and melts in spring; a year-round wing runs alongside it.27
  24. Vík í Mýrdal 🇮🇸 IslandIce cave season · 1. Nov. – 31. März (meist)Most of Iceland's natural ice caves are only safe in the cold half of the year; the one under Myrdalsjokull up the road runs longer but closes at short notice for weather and glacier movement.26
  25. Nowosibirsk 🇷🇺 RusslandOb Sea ice · 25. Nov. – 10. Apr. (meist)The reservoir south of the city freezes hard enough for cars, and the shore fills with ice fishing tents, kite skiers and snowmobiles.25

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