What's on in Norfolk Island (Kingston), Norfolk Island through the year

Shoulder season — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in January.

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in February.

Busy — Foundation Day

• Holiday

  Foundation Day

  6 MarNational holidayClosures

  6 March marks the first landing of the penal settlement in 1788, six weeks after Sydney. A quiet public holiday: shops shut, and the Kingston ruins get the attention for a day. Source ↗

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in April.

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in May.

Busy — Bounty Day, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Holiday

  Bounty Day

  8 JunNational holidayClosures

  The island's own day, marking the arrival of the Pitcairn families in 1856: nineteenth-century dress, a march from the pier to the cemetery and a shared meal on the grass at Kingston. Everything else closes. Source ↗

• Nature

  Humpbacks pass the island

  15 Jun – 15 Oct · usuallyWhale season

  The island sits alone in the middle of the migration route, so humpbacks are watched from the clifftops rather than from a boat. There is no commercial whale-watching fleet here at all.

Quiet — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Humpbacks pass the island (15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually))

Quiet — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: Humpbacks pass the island (15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: Humpbacks pass the island (15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually))

Busy — Agricultural Show Day, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Holiday

  Agricultural Show Day

  8–14 Oct · usuallyNational holidayClosures

  The second Monday in October is a public holiday for the show: produce, livestock, baking and the year's arguments about whose lemons are better. On an island of two thousand it is most of the population. Source ↗

Still on: Humpbacks pass the island (15 Jun – 15 Oct (usually))

Busy — Thanksgiving Day

• Holiday

  Thanksgiving Day

  22–28 Nov · usuallyNational holidayClosures

  An American whaling-era import kept nowhere else in the Pacific, on the fourth Wednesday in November. The churches are decorated with produce and it is a full public holiday. Source ↗

Busy — school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in December.