Qué hay en Corfú, 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 – 28 Feb (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Festival

  Corfu Carnival

  5 Feb – 10 Mar · normalmente

  Venetian in origin and still masked: weeks of satirical street theatre in the old town, ending with the burning of the carnival king on the last Sunday before Lent. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Olive harvest (1 Nov – 28 Feb (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

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

• Naturaleza

  Spring flowers and orchids

  10 Mar – 30 Abr · normalmenteFlores silvestres

  The island is the greenest in the Ionian and the olive terraces come up thick with orchids and asphodel before the summer burns it all off. The Corfu Trail is at its best now. Fuente ↗

• 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: Corfu Carnival (5 Feb – 10 Mar (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

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

• Festivo

  Corfu Easter

  6–13 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva pronto

  The most Venetian Easter in Greece: philharmonic bands in the streets all week, then at eleven on Holy Saturday morning the old town throws clay pots of water off its balconies. Fuente ↗

• Apertura

  Island season opens

  15 Abr – 20 May · normalmenteApertura de verano

  Resorts, charter flights and the Paleokastritsa boats restart around Easter, and the island is at its greenest for the six weeks before the heat arrives. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Spring flowers and orchids (10 Mar – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — Cruise days in the old town, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Cricket on the Spianada

  1 May – 15 Sep · normalmenteEvento deportivo

  A leftover of British rule that never went away: club matches on the ground beside the esplanade through the summer, watched from the arcade cafes by people who are mainly there for the coffee. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Cruise days in the old town

  1 May – 15 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de crucerosMucha gente

  Ships tie up a ten-minute walk from the Liston and the Spianada, so the old town runs on ship hours: heaving from ten to four, and the town's own again by early evening. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Corfu Easter (6–13 Abr), Island season opens (15 Abr – 20 May (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise days in the old town, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  10 Jun – 20 Oct · normalmente

  The Ionian is calmer and clearer than the Aegean because the meltemi does not reach it, and the west-coast bays stay swimmable into the second half of October.

Sigue en marcha: Cricket on the Spianada (1 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 May – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise days in the old town, Summer holidays en Grecia

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Cricket on the Spianada (1 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise days in the old town, August peak

• Festivo

  August peak

  1–28 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha genteReserva pronto

  Italians and mainland Greeks both take August here, so ferries from Igoumenitsa run full, the north-east coast roads jam and villa prices roughly double for the month. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Saint Spyridon litany

  11 AgoFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  One of the four days a year the saint's body is carried through the old town, with every philharmonic band on the island behind it. The 11 August one marks a lifted siege. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Cricket on the Spianada (1 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Oct (normalmente))

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, Cruise days in the old town

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Cricket on the Spianada (1 May – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Cruise days in the old town (1 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise days in the old town, Ohi Day

• 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: Cruise days in the old town (1 May – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm enough to swim (10 Jun – 20 Oct (normalmente))

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

• Naturaleza

  Olive harvest

  1 Nov – 28 Feb · normalmente

  Nets go down under four million trees, most of them planted under the Venetians and never pruned, and the presses in the villages run through the winter. Fuente ↗

• Cierre

  Resorts shut for winter

  1 Nov – 31 Mar

  Outside Corfu Town almost everything closes for the winter, the charter flights stop and the coast roads are empty. The town itself is a working Venetian city year round. Fuente ↗

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 – 28 Feb (normalmente)), Resorts shut for winter (1 Nov – 31 Mar)