What's on in Hallstatt (Salzkammergut), Austria through the year

Busy — Christmas holidays in Austria, school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in January.

Busy — Semester (winter) holidays in Austria, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in February.

Busy — Easter holidays in Austria, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in March.

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Easter holidays in Austria

• Season

  Coach hours

  15 Apr – 20 Oct · usuallyDay-tripper crushCrowded

  The village takes about a million visitors a year into a lane you can walk in fifteen minutes. Coaches arrive from ten and leave by four; before and after that it is a different place.

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Pentecost (Whitsun) holidays in Austria

• Festival

  Corpus Christi boat procession

  4 JunMajor festival

  The Thursday procession leaves the church and continues onto the lake in decorated boats, stopping at four blessing stations. It is a working parish event, not a show, and it moves with Easter. Source ↗

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually))

Busy — Coach hours, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in June.

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually)), Corpus Christi boat procession (4 Jun)

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Summer holidays in Austria

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually))

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Summer holidays in Austria

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually))

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Summer holidays in Austria

• Season

  Morning mist on the lake

  20 Sep – 20 Nov · usuallyFog season

  Cold nights and a warm lake put a low mist over the water most autumn mornings, which usually burns off by mid-morning and is the reason photographers get up in the dark here.

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually))

Peak crowds — Coach hours, Autumn holidays in Austria

Nothing new starts in October.

Still on: Coach hours (15 Apr – 20 Oct (usually)), Morning mist on the lake (20 Sep – 20 Nov (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in November.

Still on: Morning mist on the lake (20 Sep – 20 Nov (usually))

Quiet — travelers describe it as quiet, Christmas market, one day only

• Festival

  Krampus runs

  3–6 Dec · usuallyChristmas & New Year

  Masked Krampus figures work the lakeside lane in the first week of December, with a children's run the evening before the main one. Close quarters, and they do make contact. Source ↗

• Festival

  Christmas market, one day only

  8 DecChristmas & New YearCrowded

  The market square holds its Advent market on 8 December and no other day, because that is the Austrian public holiday. Everything else about December here is simply the village in the dark. Source ↗