What's on in Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Liechtenstein through the year

Quiet — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually)), Malbun ski season (15 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: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually)), Malbun ski season (15 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually)), Malbun ski season (15 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 6 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in April.

Still on: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually)), Malbun ski season (15 Dec – 5 Apr (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in May.

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

• Season

  Trail season

  15 Jun – 10 Oct · usually

  The Fuerstensteig, a cut ledge path with a cable to hold, opens once the snow clears in June and is the walk the country is known for. It closes again with the first autumn snow.

Shoulder season — school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Trail season (15 Jun – 10 Oct (usually))

Busy — National Day, school holidays in 7 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  National Day

  15 AugNational holidayCrowdedClosures

  On 15 August the whole country is invited up to the castle gardens for a drink with the prince, then a folk festival and fireworks in the town below. Everything else is shut. Source ↗

Still on: Trail season (15 Jun – 10 Oct (usually))

Busy — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather

• Season

  Vineyard harvest

  15 Sep – 15 Oct · usually

  The prince's vineyard runs down the hill from the castle into the town and is picked in early October, which is about the only time the capital looks busy without an event on.

Still on: Trail season (15 Jun – 10 Oct (usually))

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

• Season

  Foehn wind

  1 Oct – 30 Apr · usuallyWind season

  The Rhine valley funnels the warm downslope wind hard enough to strip the snow off the lower slopes in a day and put twelve degrees on a February afternoon.

Still on: Trail season (15 Jun – 10 Oct (usually)), Vineyard harvest (15 Sep – 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 November.

Still on: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually))

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

• Festival

  Vaduz Christmas market

  1–14 Dec · usuallyChristmas & New YearCrowded

  A hundred-odd stalls in front of the town hall on the second Advent weekend and no longer than that. For a capital of five thousand people it is a genuine crush. Source ↗

• Season

  Malbun ski season

  15 Dec – 5 Apr · usually

  The country's only ski area sits twenty minutes above the capital at 1,600 metres: two dozen kilometres of piste, a nursery slope reputation, and no queues worth the name.

Still on: Foehn wind (1 Oct – 30 Apr (usually))