Qué hay en La Canea, Grecia, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Christmas holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 31 Ene (normalmente)), Winter: the coast closes (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Concurrido — Clean Monday, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Clean Monday

  23 FebCarnavalCierresMucha gente

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Winter: the coast closes (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Concurrido — Independence Day, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Naturaleza

  Spring wildflowers and greens

  10 Mar – 10 May · normalmenteFlores silvestres

  The hills behind the town go green and flowering for two months, and the horta the tavernas serve in spring is picked off them. It is the walking season the island does not advertise.

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  25 MarFiesta nacionalCierres

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Clean Monday (23 Feb), Winter: the coast closes (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) en Grecia

• Festivo

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteCierresReserva pronto

  The biggest weekend of the Greek year: the villages fill with returning families, lamb goes on the spit on Sunday and shops shut for days around it. Domestic flights and ferries book out first. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Spring wildflowers and greens (10 Mar – 10 May (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Apertura

  Samaria Gorge open

  1 May – 31 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de senderos

  The national park opens when the authority judges the riverbed safe, usually in the first half of May, and shuts around the end of October. Out of season you can only walk the last two kilometres from Agia Roumeli. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Spring wildflowers and greens (10 Mar – 10 May (normalmente)), Orthodox Easter (10–13 Abr)

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 Jun – 5 Nov · normalmente

  Crete's water is usable a month either side of the Greek mainland's season, and the shallow lagoons at Balos and Elafonissi are warm well before the open coast.

Sigue en marcha: Samaria Gorge open (1 May – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  The meltemi

  1 Jul – 31 Ago · normalmenteTemporada de vientoRiesgo

  The northerly blows down the Aegean into high summer and this is the coast it hits. It cancels the Balos boats and closes the north-facing beaches on its worst days; the south coast stays calm.

Sigue en marcha: Samaria Gorge open (1 May – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 5 Nov (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — August peak, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Festivo

  August peak

  1–31 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha genteReserva pronto

  Greeks take their own holiday in the same weeks as northern Europe, so the old harbour, the west coast beaches and the road to Elafonissi are all at capacity around 15 August. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Samaria Gorge open (1 May – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 5 Nov (normalmente)), The meltemi (1 Jul – 31 Ago (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Samaria Gorge open (1 May – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 5 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Ohi Day, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Ohi Day

  28 OctFiesta nacionalCierres

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Samaria Gorge open (1 May – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 5 Nov (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Naturaleza

  Olive harvest

  1 Nov – 31 Ene · normalmente

  Nets go down under the trees across the whole prefecture from November and the presses run through the winter. The new oil turns up in the markets green and cloudy.

• Temporada

  Winter: the coast closes

  1 Nov – 31 MarCierre de temporada bajaCierres

  Beach resorts, most charter flights and a good share of the harbour restaurants shut for the winter. Chania town itself keeps working, which is more than the villages around it do.

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 5 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Christmas holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 31 Ene (normalmente)), Winter: the coast closes (1 Nov – 31 Mar)