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

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

• Temporada

  Frozen river trail

  5 Ene – 5 Mar · normalmenteTemporada de hielo

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Deep cold (15 Dic – 20 Feb (normalmente)), Christmas Day closures (24 Dic – 1 Ene)

Concurrido — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12–24 Feb · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Frozen river trail (5 Ene – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Deep cold (15 Dic – 20 Feb (normalmente))

Concurrido — March break / semaine de relâche en Canadá

En marzo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Frozen river trail (5 Ene – 5 Mar (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Riesgo

  Red River flood season

  1 Abr – 10 May · normalmente

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — un mes normal

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Red River flood season (1 Abr – 10 May (normalmente))

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

• Riesgo

  Mosquito season

  10 Jun – 10 Ago · normalmenteInsectos y enfermedades

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• 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 ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8–14 Jul · normalmenteFestival de músicaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Mosquito season (10 Jun – 10 Ago (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Folklorama, Summer break en Canadá

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2–16 Ago · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Mosquito season (10 Jun – 10 Ago (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer break en Canadá

• Naturaleza

  Fall goose migration

  15 Sep – 25 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de aves

  Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26 SepFestival de artes

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — un mes normal

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Fall goose migration (15 Sep – 25 Oct (normalmente)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26 Sep)

Concurrido — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8–22 Nov · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Fuente ↗

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

• Riesgo

  Deep cold

  15 Dic – 20 Feb · normalmenteFrío extremo

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. 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 ↗