Halifax, Canada ympäri vuoden

Huippusesonki — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break, Canada

Mikään uusi ei ala — tammikuu.

Yhä menossa: Winter storm season (1. joulu – 31. maalis), Christmas Day closures (24. joulu – 1. tammi)

Rauhallista — yksi vuoden huonoimmista sääkuukausista

Mikään uusi ei ala — helmikuu.

Yhä menossa: Winter storm season (1. joulu – 31. maalis)

Vilkasta — March break / semaine de relâche, Canada

Mikään uusi ei ala — maaliskuu.

Yhä menossa: Winter storm season (1. joulu – 31. maalis)

Välisesonki — tavallinen kuukausi

• Festivaali

  Halifax Burger Bash

  1.–30. huhti · yleensäRuoka- ja juomafestivaali

  For about ten days each April more than a hundred restaurants put a one-off burger on the menu, and the busier downtown kitchens queue at the door; part of each sale goes to Feed Nova Scotia. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — Blue Nose Marathon

• Festivaali

  Blue Nose Marathon

  12.–22. touko · yleensäUrheilutapahtumaRuuhkaista

  Atlantic Canada's biggest running weekend, usually in mid-May: the courses cross the Macdonald Bridge and loop through Point Pleasant Park, so expect closed streets and full hotels on race days. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — Summer break, Canada, koululomat 2 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan

• Festivaali

  Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo

  1.–5. heinäMusiikkifestivaaliRuuhkaista

  Massed pipes and drums, military bands and gun-run races indoors at the Scotiabank Centre over the Canada Day week. Two and a half hours, two thousand performers, and it has run since 1979. Lähde ↗

Huippusesonki — Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo, Canada Day

• Juhlapyhä

  Canada Day

  1. heinäKansallinen juhlapyhäSulkemisiaRuuhkaista

  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. Lähde ↗

• Festivaali

  TD Halifax Jazz Festival

  7.–12. heinäMusiikkifestivaaliRuuhkaista

  Six days on the waterfront in early July, the oldest jazz festival in Canada and the biggest summer event in Atlantic Canada. A good share of the programme on the boardwalk stages is free. Lähde ↗

• Festivaali

  Halifax Busker Festival

  29. heinä – 3. eloTaidefestivaaliRuuhkaista

  Street performers take over the Halifax and Dartmouth waterfronts for the last weekend of July, free to watch and run on hat money. It coincides with the warmest water and the fullest ferries of the year. Lähde ↗

Yhä menossa: Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo (1.–5. heinä)

Huippusesonki — Halifax Busker Festival, Summer break, Canada

• Riski

  Post-tropical storm season

  15. elo – 15. loka · yleensäHurrikaanikausiSulkemisia

  Atlantic storms that have run north up the seaboard arrive here as post-tropical systems in late summer and autumn. Juan, Dorian and Fiona all landed in this window and all took down trees and power for days. Lähde ↗

Yhä menossa: Halifax Busker Festival (29. heinä – 3. elo)

Huippusesonki — Cruise season, Summer break, Canada

• Kausi

  Cruise season

  1. syys – 31. lokaRuuhkaista

  Ships call from spring, but the leaf-season sailings down from the St Lawrence stack up in September and October and several thousand passengers can land on one morning. The waterfront and Peggy's Cove take the brunt.

Yhä menossa: Post-tropical storm season (15. elo – 15. loka (yleensä))

Vilkasta — Cruise season

• Luonto

  Fall colour

  1.–28. loka · yleensäRuska

  Maples on the mainland turn through the first three weeks of October, and Point Pleasant Park and the Annapolis Valley drives are what people go for. The coast holds its colour a week later than inland Nova Scotia.

Yhä menossa: Post-tropical storm season (15. elo – 15. loka (yleensä)), Cruise season (1. syys – 31. loka)

Huippusesonki — Holiday Parade of Lights, Remembrance Day closures

• Festivaali

  Holiday Parade of Lights

  8.–22. marras · yleensäJoulu ja uusivuosiRuuhkaista

  A lit-up evening parade through downtown on a Saturday in mid-November that opens the Christmas season; it has run for three decades and collects toys and food for local charities along Spring Garden Road. Lähde ↗

• Juhlapyhä

  Remembrance Day closures

  11. marrasKansallinen juhlapyhäSulkemisia

  Nova Scotia law shuts malls, big-box stores and most grocery stores for the whole day. Restaurants and hotels stay open, but no alcohol is sold and no shows start before noon. Lähde ↗

Huippusesonki — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break, Canada

• Riski

  Winter storm season

  1. joulu – 31. maalisTalvimyrskyt ja kovat tuuletSulkemisia

  Nor'easters come up the coast several times a winter with wind, wet snow and power cuts, and the airport is what fails first. Between them the harbour rarely freezes and the city keeps moving. Lähde ↗

• Juhlapyhä

  Christmas Day closures

  24. joulu – 1. tammiJoulu ja uusivuosiSulkemisia

  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. Lähde ↗