Qué hay en Whitehorse, Canadá, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break en Canadá

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Deep winter cold (1 Dic – 28 Feb), Christmas Day closures (24 Dic – 1 Ene)

Concurrido — Yukon Quest

• Festival

  Yukon Quest

  1–15 Feb · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha gente

  The long-distance sled dog races leave Whitehorse in early February, the longer one running 888 kilometres of trail to Dawson City. The start line downtown is the part you can watch without a snowmobile. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Available Light Film Festival

  5–25 Feb · normalmente

  Ten days of cinema, music and panels in the darkest, coldest stretch of the northern winter, which is exactly the point of scheduling it then. It is the town's biggest indoor event of the year. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Deep winter cold (1 Dic – 28 Feb)

Concurrido — March break / semaine de relâche en Canadá

En marzo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Naturaleza

  Long summer light

  25 May – 15 Jul · normalmenteSol de medianoche

  It never gets properly dark around the solstice at this latitude — nineteen hours of daylight and a long blue dusk that runs into dawn. People play golf and paddle at midnight because they can.

Concurrido — Summer break en Canadá, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Yukon River Quest

  18 Jun – 2 Jul · normalmenteEvento deportivo

  Seven hundred kilometres of paddling from the Whitehorse waterfront to Dawson City, run through the round-the-clock light of the solstice. The mass start off the riverbank is the spectacle. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Long summer light (25 May – 15 Jul (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Canada Day, Summer break en Canadá

• Festivo

  Canada Day

  1 JulFiesta nacionalCierresMucha gente

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Long summer light (25 May – 15 Jul (normalmente)), Yukon River Quest (18 Jun – 2 Jul (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer break en Canadá, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Naturaleza

  Aurora season

  20 Ago – 10 Abr · normalmente

  Dark enough to see the lights from late August until the light comes back in spring, with a break either side of the solstice when it never really gets dark. Get out of the city glow and up the Klondike Highway.

Concurrido — Summer break en Canadá

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Tranquilo — uno de sus peores meses por clima

En noviembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break en Canadá

• Riesgo

  Deep winter cold

  1 Dic – 28 FebFrío extremo

  Cold snaps take the territory well past minus thirty and the highways out of town become a serious undertaking rather than a drive. Block heaters are standard and the road reports are worth reading twice. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Christmas Day closures

  24 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoCierres

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Aurora season (20 Ago – 10 Abr (normalmente))