Qué hay en Colmar, Francia, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Christmas holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 6 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Máxima afluencia — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Carnaval de Colmar

  10 Feb – 20 Mar · normalmenteCarnavalMucha gente

  The Alsatian carnival season ends with a children's parade and the big afternoon cavalcade of floats and bands through the centre, a weekend that moves with the Lenten calendar. Free and very local. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays en Francia

• Festival

  Festival de Paques

  28 Mar – 6 AbrSemana Santa y Pascua

  Nine days of chamber music in the churches and the theatre in the run-up to Easter, and the one time in spring the town has a reason to be busy at night. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Carnaval de Colmar (10 Feb – 20 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Spring holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 5 de los mercados que lo llenan

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Festival de Paques (28 Mar – 6 Abr)

Máxima afluencia — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays en Francia

• Festivo

  May holidays and ponts

  1–25 MayFiesta nacionalMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Fete de la Musique, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Fete de la Musique

  21 JunFestival de músicaMucha gente

  France's midsummer music night, with stages and amateur bands on the squares and street corners of the old town from early evening. Free, loud, and the one night the Petite Venise terraces stay full late. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: May holidays and ponts (1–25 May)

Máxima afluencia — los viajeros lo describen como muy concurrido, Bastille Day (14 juillet)

• Festival

  Festival International de Colmar

  5–14 JulFestival de músicaReserva pronto

  Twenty-odd classical concerts in the Eglise Saint-Matthieu, the municipal theatre and the Koifhus over ten days in early July, including free lunchtime recitals by young players. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13–14 JulFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Foire aux Vins d'Alsace

  31 Jul – 9 AgoFestival gastronómicoMucha genteReserva pronto

  Ten days at the Parc Expo where the wine fair is the daytime half and stadium-sized concerts are the evening one. Rooms in the old town go with it, so book before the line-up is announced. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Foire aux Vins d'Alsace, Summer holidays en Francia

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Foire aux Vins d'Alsace (31 Jul – 9 Ago)

Concurrido — Colmar Jazz Festival, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Vendanges on the wine route

  1 Sep – 20 Oct · normalmenteCosecha

  Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest. Growers who normally pour at the door are out in the rows instead.

• Festival

  Colmar Jazz Festival

  21–26 SepFestival de músicaMucha gente

  A week of jazz in the second half of September, ticketed evenings at the municipal theatre alongside free concerts around town. It lands in harvest season, so the wine villages are busy the same weekends. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — All Saints (autumn) holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Vendanges on the wine route (1 Sep – 20 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Festival du livre de Colmar, Christmas markets

• Festival

  Festival du livre de Colmar

  21–22 NovFestival de artesMucha gente

  A free book festival at the Parc des Expositions on a late-November weekend, with a couple of hundred publishers and authors signing. It arrives the same weekend the Christmas markets open, so rooms tighten. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Christmas markets

  23 Nov – 29 DicNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  Six markets across the old town from the end of November, and the reason coaches queue on the ring road every December weekend. Go on a weekday morning or accept walking at the pace of the crowd. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Christmas markets, Christmas holidays en Francia

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Christmas markets (23 Nov – 29 Dic)