Qué hay en La Rochela, 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.

Sigue en marcha: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Atlantic storm season (1 Nov – 28 Feb (normalmente))

Concurrido — Winter (February) holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Atlantic storm season (1 Nov – 28 Feb (normalmente))

Concurrido — Winter (February) holidays en Francia, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Easter weekend

  4–6 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteCierres

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and the long weekend is spring's first big getaway: motorways and TGVs fill, towns that draw holidaymakers get busy and some rooms are priced up, and many shops close on the Monday. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — los viajeros lo describen como muy concurrido, Easter weekend

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Easter weekend (4–6 Abr), Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente))

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 ↗

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

• Temporada

  Atlantic swimming season

  25 Jun – 20 Sep · normalmenteMar templado

  The bay only really warms up from the end of June and cools quickly after the first September gales. Locals swim either side of that in a wetsuit and think nothing of it.

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

Máxima afluencia — Francofolies, The Ile de Re summer

• Festival

  Francofolies

  10–14 JulFestival de músicaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Five days of French-language music on stages around the old port in the middle of July, a hundred-odd acts, and the whole town given over to it. Rooms are gone months before the line-up is out. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  The Ile de Re summer

  10 Jul – 25 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha genteReserva pronto

  Half of Paris takes the island for the school holidays and everything crosses the same toll bridge. Go over early or late in the day, and do not expect to park in the old port at all. 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 ↗

Sigue en marcha: Atlantic swimming season (25 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — The Ile de Re summer, Summer holidays en Francia

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Atlantic swimming season (25 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente)), The Ile de Re summer (10 Jul – 25 Ago)

Concurrido — Grand Pavois boat show, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Oyster and mussel season

  1 Sep – 30 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de recolección

  Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.

• Festival

  Grand Pavois boat show

  22–27 SepGran festivalMucha genteReserva pronto

  Six days at the Port des Minimes with several hundred boats afloat and tens of thousands of visitors, which is why late September here is not the cheap shoulder it looks like. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Atlantic swimming season (25 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente))

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: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — All Saints (autumn) holidays en Francia

• Riesgo

  Atlantic storm season

  1 Nov – 28 Feb · normalmente

  Depressions come in off the Atlantic all winter, and on a high spring tide the sea gets over the sea wall on the Vieux Port. Meteo-France runs the coastal and wave warnings for the department. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente))

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

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Oyster and mussel season (1 Sep – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Atlantic storm season (1 Nov – 28 Feb (normalmente))