Qué hay en Nazaré, Portugal, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Christmas and New Year

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Out of season in town (1 Nov – 31 Mar), Christmas and New Year (24 Dic – 1 Ene)

Máxima afluencia — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Carnival holidays en Portugal

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Out of season in town (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Easter week, Tow Surfing Challenge window

• Festivo

  Easter week

  29 Mar – 5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteCierres

  Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches. Many Portuguese take the week around it off, so hotels fill and rates rise for the first busy spell of the year, and some shops and museums close on Friday and Sunday. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Out of season in town (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Easter week, Easter holidays en Portugal

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Easter week (29 Mar – 5 Abr)

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

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Portugal, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Beach season on the main praia

  15 Jun – 20 Sep · normalmenteMar templado

  The sheltered town beach is a different ocean from the one round the headland: striped tents, sardines drying on racks, and water cold enough that most people go in twice.

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Portugal, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Beach season on the main praia (15 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Portuguese August, Summer holidays en Portugal

• Temporada

  Portuguese August

  1–31 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha gente

  This is a domestic resort before it is an international one, and in August it fills with families from Lisbon and Leiria. The funicular to Sitio queues down the street.

Sigue en marcha: Beach season on the main praia (15 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Nazare, Summer holidays en Portugal

• Festival

  Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Nazare

  5–10 SepFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The town's pilgrimage week up at Sitio around 8 September: processions, folk dancing, a fairground and bullfights in the square-shaped arena on the cliff. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Beach season on the main praia (15 Jun – 20 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — Tow Surfing Challenge window, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Big-wave season, Praia do Norte

  15 Oct – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de surf

  Atlantic storms funnel down the Nazare canyon and the tow-in crews chase them from the lighthouse headland. Six to ten genuinely enormous days a winter, and no way to book them in advance.

• Festival

  Tow Surfing Challenge window

  15 Oct – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de surfMucha genteReserva pronto

  The big-wave contest is called on 24 to 48 hours' notice when the forecast clears about twelve metres, so the town can go from empty to sold out inside a day between October and March. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Tow Surfing Challenge window, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Out of season in town

  1 Nov – 31 MarCierre de temporada bajaCierres

  Half the seafront restaurants shut while the surf crowd is here for the waves rather than the town. Rooms are cheap, the wind off the Atlantic is not gentle, and the fish market carries on.

Sigue en marcha: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Christmas and New Year

• Festivo

  Christmas and New Year

  24 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoCierres

  Christmas is kept at home: from the afternoon of 24 December through the 25th most restaurants, shops and museums close, and 1 January is just as quiet. Restaurants that do open on New Year's Eve usually sell set dinners that book up ahead. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15 Oct – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Out of season in town (1 Nov – 31 Mar)