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

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

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Out of season (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, Clean Monday

• 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: Out of season (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

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

• 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), Out of season (1 Nov – 31 Mar)

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

• Festivo

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha gente

  Zakynthos keeps a Venetian-influenced Easter with brass bands behind the epitaphios, and the island opens for the season the same week the charter flights restart. Fuente ↗

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

• Naturaleza

  Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay

  1 May – 31 OctAnidación de tortugas

  The bay holds one of the Mediterranean's most important loggerhead rookeries. Females come ashore from late May, the first hatchlings dig out in late July and it runs to October.

• Norma

  Marine park beach rules

  1 May – 31 OctCierres

  Through the nesting season the park's beaches are closed from dusk to dawn, umbrellas and watersports are banned on the protected sands, and you keep to the wet strip near the water. Fuente ↗

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

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

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 Jun – 15 Oct · normalmente

  Ionian water is warmer and calmer than the Aegean and the meltemi barely reaches here, so the west-coast sea caves and the blue caves are swimmable from June to mid-October.

Sigue en marcha: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 May – 31 Oct), Marine park beach rules (1 May – 31 Oct)

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

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 May – 31 Oct), Marine park beach rules (1 May – 31 Oct), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Greek August, Agios Dionysios

• Festivo

  Greek August

  1–25 AgoVacaciones escolaresMucha genteReserva pronto

  Domestic holidays and the 15 August feast on top of the charter season. Laganas and the boat trips to the shipwreck viewpoint are at their fullest, and the island's roads are narrow. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Agios Dionysios

  23–25 AgoFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The island's patron is carried through Zakynthos town on 24 August with a fireworks finale over the harbour, repeated in a quieter form on 17 December. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 May – 31 Oct), Marine park beach rules (1 May – 31 Oct), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Grecia, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 May – 31 Oct), Marine park beach rules (1 May – 31 Oct), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente))

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

• 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 ↗

Sigue en marcha: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 May – 31 Oct), Marine park beach rules (1 May – 31 Oct), Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

• Cierre

  Out of season

  1 Nov – 31 Mar

  The charter flights and the resort strips stop entirely from November and this becomes a green, wet, farming island. Zakynthos town and the Kyllini ferry keep going all winter. Fuente ↗

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

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Out of season (1 Nov – 31 Mar)