Qué hay en Salónica, Grecia, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays en Grecia

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (5 Dic – 6 Ene)

Concurrido — Clean Monday, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Clean Monday

  23 FebCarnavalCierresMucha gente

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, Independence Day

• Festival

  Documentary Festival

  1–20 Mar · normalmenteFestival de cine

  Ten days of documentary screened in the converted warehouses on the port in early March, the city's other film festival and the one that fills its cafes with argument. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  25 MarFiesta nacionalCierres

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Clean Monday (23 Feb), The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) en Grecia

• Festivo

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaCierres

  The city empties towards the villages and Halkidiki for the week and much of the centre closes. The Friday epitaphios processions from the Byzantine churches are the thing to stay for. Fuente ↗

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

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Orthodox Easter (10–13 Abr)

Máxima afluencia — Thessaloniki Pride, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Pride

  15–20 Jun · normalmenteMucha gente

  A week of talks, film screenings and parties along the waterfront builds to a Saturday parade at the White Tower, the country's second-largest Pride after Athens. Fuente ↗

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

• Riesgo

  Heat over the gulf

  1 Jul – 25 AgoCalor extremo

  A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part. The waterfront and Ano Poli are where any breeze is. Fuente ↗

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

• Temporada

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  1–25 AgoVacaciones escolaresCierres

  Thessalonikis have a coast an hour away and they use it. Half the good tavernas and bars shut for a fortnight around 15 August and the roads out on Friday afternoons are solid.

Sigue en marcha: Heat over the gulf (1 Jul – 25 Ago)

Máxima afluencia — Thessaloniki International Fair, Summer holidays en Grecia

• Festival

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  5–13 SepSemana de feriaMucha genteReserva pronto

  The country's biggest trade exhibition takes over the fairgrounds for over a week and has traditionally closed with the Prime Minister's economic policy speech; hotels fill and traffic around the site gets heavy even for visitors with no reason to attend. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ohi Day

• Festival

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  1–31 OctFestival de artes

  A month of concerts and theatre across the city, closing on the feast of Agios Dimitrios on 26 October. Two days later the Ochi Day military parade shuts the waterfront. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Thessaloniki Film Festival

  28 Oct – 15 Nov · normalmenteMucha genteReserva pronto

  The biggest film festival in south-east Europe, ten days at the start of November in the port warehouses and the old cinemas on Aristotelous. Hotel rooms tighten around it. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Ohi Day

  28 OctFiesta nacionalCierres

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Thessaloniki Film Festival, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  The vardaris

  15 Nov – 15 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de vientoRiesgo

  A cold north wind funnels down the Axios valley into the gulf in winter, clears the air and takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says on the waterfront.

Sigue en marcha: Thessaloniki Film Festival (28 Oct – 15 Nov (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays en Grecia

• Festivo

  Christmas and New Year

  5 Dic – 6 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  Lights and a market along Aristotelous down to the sea, and a city that treats the holidays as an excuse to be out. Nearly everything closes on the 25th, 26th and 1st. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: The vardaris (15 Nov – 15 Mar (normalmente))