What's on in Turin (Torino), Italy through the year

Busy — Christmas holidays in Italy, school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Po valley smog season (1 Oct – 31 Mar), Luci d'Artista (25 Oct – 15 Jan (usually)), Ski season in the valleys (5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Po valley smog season (1 Oct – 31 Mar), Ski season in the valleys (5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

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

• Holiday

  Easter and Pasquetta

  29 Mar – 6 AprEaster & Holy WeekClosures

  Turin empties towards the mountains and the Liguria coast, museums stay open and the historic cafes keep their hours. One of the easier weeks to have the city to yourself. Source ↗

Still on: Po valley smog season (1 Oct – 31 Mar), Ski season in the valleys (5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

Peak crowds — Easter and Pasquetta, Easter holidays in Italy

Nothing new starts in April.

Still on: Easter and Pasquetta (29 Mar – 6 Apr), Ski season in the valleys (5 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

Busy — Salone del Libro, school holidays in 4 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Salone del Libro

  5–25 May · usuallyMajor festivalCrowdedBook early

  Italy's book fair fills the Lingotto for five days in May and takes most of the hotel stock with it. The off-programme readings spill across the whole city that week. Source ↗

Peak crowds — Kappa FuturFestival, Summer holidays in Italy

• Festival

  Kappa FuturFestival

  28 Jun – 10 Jul · usuallyMajor festivalCrowdedBook early

  Three days of electronic music under the old steelworks canopy at Parco Dora, midday to midnight, drawing tens of thousands into the city in the hottest week of the year. Rooms go months ahead. Source ↗

Peak crowds — Kappa FuturFestival, Summer holidays in Italy

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Kappa FuturFestival (28 Jun – 10 Jul (usually))

Peak crowds — Ferragosto, Summer holidays in Italy

• Holiday

  Ferragosto

  5–25 AugSchool holidaysClosures

  A working city rather than a tourist one, so when Turin takes its fortnight the shutters really do come down: whole streets of restaurants shut and the trams run half empty. Source ↗

Busy — Summer holidays in Italy, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in September.

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

• Hazard

  Po valley smog season

  1 Oct – 31 MarWinter smog

  The city sits in a bowl with the Alps on three sides, and winter inversions trap particulates for days. Piedmont runs a defined winter anti-smog period with diesel bans that tighten as levels rise. Source ↗

• Nature

  White truffle and new wine

  5 Oct – 5 Dec · usuallyForaging season

  Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.

• Festival

  Luci d'Artista

  25 Oct – 15 Jan · usuallyChristmas & New Year

  Contemporary artists light the squares and porticoes for the winter, and it is not a Christmas market: the installations stay up long after the holidays and are the reason to walk here at night. Source ↗

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

• Festival

  Torino Film Festival

  20 Nov – 1 Dec · usually

  Ten days of first and second features in late November, run out of a city that keeps its national film museum inside the Mole. Less industry, more audience, than the Italian majors. Source ↗

Still on: Po valley smog season (1 Oct – 31 Mar), White truffle and new wine (5 Oct – 5 Dec (usually)), Luci d'Artista (25 Oct – 15 Jan (usually))

Busy — Christmas holidays in Italy, school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it

• Season

  Ski season in the valleys

  5 Dec – 5 Apr · usually

  Sestriere and the rest of the Milky Way are ninety minutes up the valley, which is why Turin fills with ski traffic at weekends and empties into the mountains at Christmas and Carnival.

Still on: Po valley smog season (1 Oct – 31 Mar), White truffle and new wine (5 Oct – 5 Dec (usually)), Luci d'Artista (25 Oct – 15 Jan (usually)), Torino Film Festival (20 Nov – 1 Dec (usually))