Qué hay en Halifax, Canadá, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break en Canadá

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Winter storm season (1 Dic – 31 Mar), Christmas Day closures (24 Dic – 1 Ene)

Tranquilo — uno de sus peores meses por clima

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Winter storm season (1 Dic – 31 Mar)

Concurrido — March break / semaine de relâche en Canadá

En marzo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Winter storm season (1 Dic – 31 Mar)

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Festival

  Halifax Burger Bash

  1–30 Abr · normalmenteFestival gastronómico

  For about ten days each April more than a hundred restaurants put a one-off burger on the menu, and the busier downtown kitchens queue at the door; part of each sale goes to Feed Nova Scotia. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Blue Nose Marathon

• Festival

  Blue Nose Marathon

  12–22 May · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha gente

  Atlantic Canada's biggest running weekend, usually in mid-May: the courses cross the Macdonald Bridge and loop through Point Pleasant Park, so expect closed streets and full hotels on race days. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Summer break en Canadá, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo

  1–5 JulFestival de músicaMucha gente

  Massed pipes and drums, military bands and gun-run races indoors at the Scotiabank Centre over the Canada Day week. Two and a half hours, two thousand performers, and it has run since 1979. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo, Canada Day

• Festivo

  Canada Day

  1 JulFiesta nacionalCierresMucha gente

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  TD Halifax Jazz Festival

  7–12 JulFestival de músicaMucha gente

  Six days on the waterfront in early July, the oldest jazz festival in Canada and the biggest summer event in Atlantic Canada. A good share of the programme on the boardwalk stages is free. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Halifax Busker Festival

  29 Jul – 3 AgoFestival de artesMucha gente

  Street performers take over the Halifax and Dartmouth waterfronts for the last weekend of July, free to watch and run on hat money. It coincides with the warmest water and the fullest ferries of the year. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo (1–5 Jul)

Máxima afluencia — Halifax Busker Festival, Summer break en Canadá

• Riesgo

  Post-tropical storm season

  15 Ago – 15 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de huracanesCierres

  Atlantic storms that have run north up the seaboard arrive here as post-tropical systems in late summer and autumn. Juan, Dorian and Fiona all landed in this window and all took down trees and power for days. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Halifax Busker Festival (29 Jul – 3 Ago)

Máxima afluencia — Cruise season, Summer break en Canadá

• Temporada

  Cruise season

  1 Sep – 31 OctMucha gente

  Ships call from spring, but the leaf-season sailings down from the St Lawrence stack up in September and October and several thousand passengers can land on one morning. The waterfront and Peggy's Cove take the brunt.

Sigue en marcha: Post-tropical storm season (15 Ago – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Cruise season

• Naturaleza

  Fall colour

  1–28 Oct · normalmenteColores de otoño

  Maples on the mainland turn through the first three weeks of October, and Point Pleasant Park and the Annapolis Valley drives are what people go for. The coast holds its colour a week later than inland Nova Scotia.

Sigue en marcha: Post-tropical storm season (15 Ago – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Cruise season (1 Sep – 31 Oct)

Máxima afluencia — Holiday Parade of Lights, Remembrance Day closures

• Festival

  Holiday Parade of Lights

  8–22 Nov · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  A lit-up evening parade through downtown on a Saturday in mid-November that opens the Christmas season; it has run for three decades and collects toys and food for local charities along Spring Garden Road. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Remembrance Day closures

  11 NovFiesta nacionalCierres

  Nova Scotia law shuts malls, big-box stores and most grocery stores for the whole day. Restaurants and hotels stay open, but no alcohol is sold and no shows start before noon. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break en Canadá

• Riesgo

  Winter storm season

  1 Dic – 31 MarTemporales de inviernoCierres

  Nor'easters come up the coast several times a winter with wind, wet snow and power cuts, and the airport is what fails first. Between them the harbour rarely freezes and the city keeps moving. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Christmas Day closures

  24 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoCierres

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Fuente ↗