What's on in Pyeongchang, South Korea through the year

Peak crowds — Pyeongchang Trout Festival, Winter break (gyeoul banghak) in South Korea

• Festival

  Pyeongchang Trout Festival

  9 Jan – 9 FebIce seasonCrowded

  A month of holes cut in the Odaecheon for ice fishing, plus the bare-handed catching pool that is the reason most people come. It runs on river ice, so a warm spell shortens it. Source ↗

• Festival

  Daegwallyeong Snow Festival

  13–22 FebIce seasonCrowded

  Snow sculpture and sledging up on the pass, historically in January though the 2026 edition ran in the second half of February. Confirm dates before you build a weekend round it. Source ↗

Still on: Ski season (25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually))

Peak crowds — Pyeongchang Trout Festival, Daegwallyeong Snow Festival

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Pyeongchang Trout Festival (9 Jan – 9 Feb), Daegwallyeong Snow Festival (13–22 Feb), Ski season (25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Ski season (25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually))

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

• Season

  Between the seasons

  10 Apr – 15 Jun · usuallyOff-season shutdownClosures

  The lifts stop, the Olympic valley goes quiet and a lot of the resort restaurants shut until the summer trade. Cheap, empty, and not much reason to be up here.

Still on: Ski season (25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in May.

Still on: Between the seasons (10 Apr – 15 Jun (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in June.

Still on: Between the seasons (10 Apr – 15 Jun (usually))

Busy — Summer break (yeoreum banghak) in South Korea, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in July.

Busy — Summer break (yeoreum banghak) in South Korea, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Nature

  Buckwheat flowers at Bongpyeong

  25 Aug – 15 Sep · usuallyWildflowers & blooms

  The fields around Bongpyeong go white for two or three weeks at the end of summer, the setting of the short story every Korean schoolchild reads. A festival is usually timed to it.

Busy — Chuseok in South Korea, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: Buckwheat flowers at Bongpyeong (25 Aug – 15 Sep (usually))

Busy — Autumn colour at Odaesan, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Nature

  Autumn colour at Odaesan

  5–25 Oct · usuallyCrowded

  The colour reaches Odaesan earlier than almost anywhere else in South Korea, in the first half of October. The fir avenue up to Woljeongsa is the walk, and it is busy at weekends.

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

• Season

  Ski season

  25 Nov – 5 Apr · usually

  Yongpyong and Alpensia open on manufactured snow from late November and run night skiing most of the winter. It is cold and dry rather than deep — expect groomed pistes, not powder.

Busy — Winter break (gyeoul banghak) in South Korea, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in December.

Still on: Ski season (25 Nov – 5 Apr (usually))