What's on in Vladivostok, Russia 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: Amur Bay ice (20 Dec – 20 Mar (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Amur Bay ice (20 Dec – 20 Mar (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Amur Bay ice (20 Dec – 20 Mar (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in April.

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

Nothing new starts in May.

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

• Season

  Summer sea fog

  1 Jun – 25 Jul · usuallyFog season

  Warm monsoon air over a cold sea puts the city inside a cloud for days at a time in early summer — the bridges disappear, the islands are guesswork, and it burns off late in the afternoon if at all.

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

Nothing new starts in July.

Still on: Summer sea fog (1 Jun – 25 Jul (usually))

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

• Hazard

  Typhoon remnants

  1 Aug – 30 Sep · usuallyTyphoon season

  Systems that made landfall on Korea or Japan arrive here as tropical storms, and a single one can flood the low streets and cut the road out to the region for a day. It is a couple of days a summer, not a whole season. Source ↗

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

• Season

  Eastern Economic Forum week

  1–12 Sep · usuallyBook earlyClosures

  The government's Pacific summit takes over the university campus on Russky Island for a week each September, and with it every decent room in the city and the bridge traffic. Book around it or not at all. Source ↗

• Season

  Velvet season

  5 Sep – 15 Oct · usuallySummer season opens

  Once the monsoon and the storms are done the air clears and the sea is still warm enough to swim — locals call it the velvet season and treat it as the real summer. The boats to the islands run until the weather turns.

Still on: Typhoon remnants (1 Aug – 30 Sep (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in October.

Still on: Velvet season (5 Sep – 15 Oct (usually))

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

Nothing new starts in November.

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

• Season

  Amur Bay ice

  20 Dec – 20 Mar · usuallyIce season

  The bay freezes over and the city walks out onto it: ice fishing tents in rows off the Sportivnaya embankment, kite skiers, and icebreakers keeping a channel open to the port. The edge ice is the part that gives way.