Qué hay en Moscú, Rusia, a lo largo del año

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, New Year holidays

• Festival

  Epiphany ice bathing

  18–19 EneFiesta religiosa

  On the night of 18 January crosses are cut into the ice on the ponds and the river and queues form to go under three times. The city sets up heated tents and an ambulance at each site. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 Nov – 10 Mar (normalmente)), New Year holidays (31 Dic – 8 Ene)

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

• Festival

  Maslenitsa

  16–22 FebCarnaval

  Pancake week before Lent, with street kitchens in the parks and a straw effigy burned on the Sunday. It is the one week of winter the city deliberately spends outdoors. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 Nov – 10 Mar (normalmente))

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

• Temporada

  The thaw

  10 Mar – 25 Abr · normalmenteCierre de temporada baja

  Six weeks of grey slush, when the snow goes dirty, the pavements are ankle-deep by midday and frozen again by evening. The parks are unusable and the city looks its worst; the rates say so too. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Maslenitsa (16–22 Feb), Outdoor skating rinks open (25 Nov – 10 Mar (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 6 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: The thaw (10 Mar – 25 Abr (normalmente))

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

• Temporada

  Dacha season

  1 May – 31 AgoVacaciones escolares

  From May anyone with a plot outside town is on it at weekends. The Friday traffic out of the city is the worst of the week and the centre is unusually calm until Sunday night. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Victory Day

  4–9 MayGran festivalCierresMucha gente

  The parade on 9 May shuts the centre, and the night rehearsals in the week before it close Tverskaya and the inner ring. Central metro stations are closed on the day at short notice. Fuente ↗

• Riesgo

  Poplar fluff

  25 May – 25 Jun · normalmenteTemporada de polen

  For two or three weeks the city fills with white seed fluff off the poplars planted after the war: drifts of it in the gutters, in your eyes, and a fortnight of misery for anyone with hay fever. Fuente ↗

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

• Festivo

  Russia Day

  12 JunFiesta nacionalCierres

  A public holiday on 12 June with concerts in the centre and a fireworks finish, and the start of the summer pattern where the city empties towards the dachas for any long weekend. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Dacha season (1 May – 31 Ago), Poplar fluff (25 May – 25 Jun (normalmente))

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Dacha season (1 May – 31 Ago)

Concurrido — vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus mejores meses por clima

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Dacha season (1 May – 31 Ago)

Máxima afluencia — City Day, Moscow Marathon

• Festival

  City Day

  1–10 Sep · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  Moscow's birthday, marked on the first weekend of September with concerts and street closures across the centre and fireworks from a dozen points at once. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Moscow Marathon

  26–27 SepEvento deportivoCierresMucha gente

  A September Sunday with the course along the embankments and past Luzhniki, which shuts the river roads through the centre for the morning. Tens of thousands start it. Fuente ↗

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

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Apertura

  Outdoor skating rinks open

  25 Nov – 10 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de hielo

  Gorky Park, VDNKh and Red Square freeze their rinks from late November and keep them going until the thaw. It is the main reason to be outdoors in the coldest months. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — New Year holidays, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  New Year holidays

  31 Dic – 8 EneNavidad y Año NuevoCierresMucha gente

  The country stops for the first eight days of January. Offices, most services and a good share of restaurants close, and the lit squares and the skating rinks are what is left running. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Outdoor skating rinks open (25 Nov – 10 Mar (normalmente))