Qué hay en Calcuta, India, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — International Kolkata Book Fair, Park Street at Christmas

• Festival

  International Kolkata Book Fair

  20 Ene – 8 Feb · normalmenteFestival de artesMucha gente

  A fortnight on the Salt Lake ground that draws crowds a book fair has no business drawing, plus food stalls and evening music. The metro out to it is standing room after six. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Park Street at Christmas (18 Dic – 1 Ene)

Máxima afluencia — International Kolkata Book Fair, Holi

• Festival

  Holi

  25 Feb – 25 Mar · normalmenteFiesta religiosaMucha genteCierres

  Holi, the spring festival of colours, is a public holiday across north India. On the main morning people fill the streets throwing coloured powder and water, visitors included, and many shops and restaurants stay shut until the afternoon. Wear old clothes, protect eyes and cameras, and expect some rowdy crowds. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: International Kolkata Book Fair (20 Ene – 8 Feb (normalmente))

Concurrido — Holi, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Riesgo

  Kalbaisakhi storm season

  20 Mar – 20 May · normalmente

  Late-afternoon squall lines come out of the northwest through the hot months, drop the temperature in minutes and take trees and hoardings down with them. Flights hold; the city rather enjoys them. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Holi (25 Feb – 25 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) en India, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Kalbaisakhi storm season (20 Mar – 20 May (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer vacation (north & east) en India

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Kalbaisakhi storm season (20 Mar – 20 May (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer vacation (north & east) en India, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Monsoon and waterlogging

  10 Jun – 25 Sep · normalmenteRiesgo

  The rain arrives in the second week of June and the low-lying parts of the city stand in water for hours after a heavy morning, because the drains empty into a river that is itself in flood.

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 5 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Monsoon and waterlogging (10 Jun – 25 Sep (normalmente))

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Monsoon and waterlogging (10 Jun – 25 Sep (normalmente))

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

• Festival

  Durga Puja

  16–21 OctFiesta religiosaMucha genteCierres

  The one week of the year the city stops working and walks all night between commissioned pandals, some of them serious art. Hotels and trains are booked out months ahead and the traffic plan changes daily. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Monsoon and waterlogging (10 Jun – 25 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Durga Puja, Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali) en India

• Festival

  Kali Puja and Diwali

  8–9 NovMucha genteRiesgo

  Bengal's own version comes three weeks after Durga Puja: night-long pujas, lit courtyards, and firecrackers that put the air into its worst readings of the year for two days. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Durga Puja (16–21 Oct)

Máxima afluencia — Kali Puja and Diwali, Kolkata International Film Festival

• Festival

  Kolkata International Film Festival

  25 Nov – 20 Dic · normalmenteMucha gente

  A week of screenings around Nandan and the Rabindra Sadan complex, mostly free or nearly so, with queues that form before the box office opens. Dates are announced late each year. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Kali Puja and Diwali (8–9 Nov)

Máxima afluencia — Kolkata International Film Festival, Park Street at Christmas

• Festivo

  Park Street at Christmas

  18 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  Park Street is strung with lights and closed to cars on the big nights, and the crowd is the point rather than the shopping. It lands in the coolest, cleanest fortnight of the Kolkata year. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Kolkata International Film Festival (25 Nov – 20 Dic (normalmente))