Thessaloniki, Greece ympäri vuoden

Huippusesonki — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays, Greece

Mikään uusi ei ala — tammikuu.

Yhä menossa: The vardaris (15. marras – 15. maalis (yleensä)), Christmas and New Year (5. joulu – 6. tammi)

Vilkasta — Clean Monday, koululomat 3 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan

• Juhlapyhä

  Clean Monday

  23. helmiKarnevaaliSulkemisiaRuuhkaista

  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. Lähde ↗

Yhä menossa: The vardaris (15. marras – 15. maalis (yleensä))

Rauhallista — matkailijat kuvaavat tätä rauhalliseksi, Independence Day

• Festivaali

  Documentary Festival

  1.–20. maalis · yleensäElokuvafestivaali

  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. Lähde ↗

• Juhlapyhä

  Independence Day

  25. maalisKansallinen juhlapyhäSulkemisia

  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. Lähde ↗

Yhä menossa: Clean Monday (23. helmi), The vardaris (15. marras – 15. maalis (yleensä))

Huippusesonki — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox), Greece

• Juhlapyhä

  Orthodox Easter

  10.–13. huhtiPääsiäinen ja hiljainen viikkoSulkemisia

  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. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — koululomat 4 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan, yksi vuoden parhaista sääkuukausista

Mikään uusi ei ala — toukokuu.

Yhä menossa: Orthodox Easter (10.–13. huhti)

Huippusesonki — Thessaloniki Pride, Summer holidays, Greece

• Festivaali

  Thessaloniki Pride

  15.–20. kesä · yleensäRuuhkaista

  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. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — Summer holidays, Greece, koululomat 7 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan

• Riski

  Heat over the gulf

  1. heinä – 25. eloÄärihelle

  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. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — Summer holidays, Greece, koululomat 7 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan

• Kausi

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  1.–25. eloKoululomatSulkemisia

  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.

Yhä menossa: Heat over the gulf (1. heinä – 25. elo)

Huippusesonki — Thessaloniki International Fair, Summer holidays, Greece

• Festivaali

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  5.–13. syysMessuviikkoRuuhkaistaVaraa ajoissa

  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. Lähde ↗

Huippusesonki — Thessaloniki Film Festival, Ohi Day

• Festivaali

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  1.–31. lokaTaidefestivaali

  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. Lähde ↗

• Festivaali

  Thessaloniki Film Festival

  28. loka – 15. marras · yleensäRuuhkaistaVaraa ajoissa

  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. Lähde ↗

• Juhlapyhä

  Ohi Day

  28. lokaKansallinen juhlapyhäSulkemisia

  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. Lähde ↗

Vilkasta — Thessaloniki Film Festival, koululomat 2 lähtömaassa, joista tänne tullaan

• Kausi

  The vardaris

  15. marras – 15. maalis · yleensäTuulikausiRiski

  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.

Yhä menossa: Thessaloniki Film Festival (28. loka – 15. marras (yleensä))

Huippusesonki — Christmas and New Year, Christmas holidays, Greece

• Juhlapyhä

  Christmas and New Year

  5. joulu – 6. tammiJoulu ja uusivuosiRuuhkaista

  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. Lähde ↗

Yhä menossa: The vardaris (15. marras – 15. maalis (yleensä))