Pâques et Semaine sainte, mois par mois dans le monde
Processions, fermetures et premières foules du printemps.
464 destinations sur SeasonMap, classées dans chaque mois selon le score de confort — car la question n’est pas seulement de savoir où la saison bat son plein, mais si la météo vaut le voyage pendant ce temps.
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Pâques et Semaine sainte en janvier
Pâques et Semaine sainte en février
- Addis-Abeba 🇪🇹 ÉthiopieHudadi, the Great Lent fast · 10 févr. – 2 mai (en général)For the 55 days before Ethiopian Easter the Orthodox majority gives up meat, dairy and eggs.94
- Antigua Guatemala 🇬🇹 GuatemalaLenten processions · 15 févr. – 27 mars (en général)Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it.91
- Gondar 🇪🇹 ÉthiopieAbiy Tsom, the Great Lent · 10 févr. – 1 mai (en général)The 55-day Orthodox fast before Fasika: most local restaurants switch to fasting food with no meat, dairy or eggs, which makes it the best time for shiro and vegetable platters and the hardest for a steak.91
- Cap-Haïtien 🇭🇹 HaïtiRara season · 10 févr. – 25 avr. (en général)From the first Sunday of Lent until Easter, rara bands walk the streets on Sunday nights with drums and bamboo vaksin horns, growing louder each week toward Holy Week.78
- Port-au-Prince 🇭🇹 HaïtiRara season · 10 févr. – 25 avr. (en général)Between the first Sunday of Lent and Easter, rara bands parade on Sunday nights with drums and vaksin horns.75
- Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 États-UnisLenten fish fries · 4 févr. – 23 avr. (en général)Every Friday in Lent, church halls, fire stations and bars across the city serve fish sandwiches with pierogies and haluski.52
Pâques et Semaine sainte en mars
- San Pedro de Atacama 🇨🇱 ChiliSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.97
- Île Kangourou 🇦🇺 AustralieEaster long weekend · 20 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday is a four-day national long weekend, usually next to or inside the autumn school holidays.97
- Lanzarote 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.95
- Ténérife 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.95
- La Serena 🇨🇱 ChiliSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.95
- Marrakech 🇲🇦 MarocEaster week · 25 mars – 20 avr. (en général)European school holidays fill the riads at the best time of year for the medina.94
- Puerto Madryn 🇦🇷 ArgentineSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.94
- Viña del Mar 🇨🇱 ChiliSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.94
- Las Palmas de Grande Canarie 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.93
- San Cristóbal de Las Casas 🇲🇽 MexiqueSemana Santa and Pascua · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Holy Week and the Easter week after it are Mexico's main spring break: schools close, domestic travellers fill hotels and long-distance buses, rates rise, and many offices and shops shut on Holy Thursday and Good Friday.93
- Mazatlán 🇲🇽 MexiqueSemana Santa · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Mexican school holidays land on Holy Week and the whole of Sinaloa and Durango drives to this beach.93
- Hermanus 🇿🇦 Afrique du SudEaster Passion Play · 20 mars – 25 avr. (en général)On Good Friday evening a cast of local volunteers stages the life of Christ against the cliffs of the Old Harbour, with lights and music.93
- Valparaíso 🇨🇱 ChiliSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.92
- Baguio 🇵🇭 PhilippinesHoly Week · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)The single busiest week of the Baguio year — booked months ahead, with much of Manila in town and the churches full from Thursday.92
- Margaret River 🇦🇺 AustralieEaster long weekend · 20 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday is a four-day national long weekend, usually next to or inside the autumn school holidays.92
- Cafayate 🇦🇷 ArgentineSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.92
- Auckland 🇳🇿 Nouvelle-ZélandeEaster coastal exodus · 20 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Four days off send the city north to the coastal towns and the Coromandel.91
- Guatemala 🇬🇹 GuatemalaSemana Santa · 20 mars – 15 avr. (en général)The capital empties for the week — to Antigua, to the coast, to Atitlán — and the processions that stay are in Zona 1.91
- Guanajuato 🇲🇽 MexiqueViernes de Dolores and Holy Week · 15 mars – 20 avr. (en général)On the Friday before Palm Sunday the old mine works, plazas and shop doorways fill with flower altars and people hand out ice water and paletas in the street.91
- Fuerteventura 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.91
- San Miguel de Allende 🇲🇽 MexiqueSemana Santa · 14 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Two weeks of processions rather than one, starting with the Senor de la Columna walked in from Atotonilco before dawn on the Sunday before Palm Sunday.91
- Knysna 🇿🇦 Afrique du SudEaster long weekend · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.91
- Jeffreys Bay 🇿🇦 Afrique du SudEaster long weekend · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.91
- Mexico 🇲🇽 MexiqueSemana Santa · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)The capital empties for the week as families head to the coast, which makes it the easiest the traffic ever gets.90
- Funchal 🇵🇹 PortugalEaster week · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches.90
…et 397 de plus en mars.
Pâques et Semaine sainte en avril
- Jérusalem 🇮🇱 IsraëlHoly Week and Easter · 20 mars – 10 mai (en général)Western and Orthodox Easter often fall a week or more apart, so the Old City runs two sets of processions.96
- Larnaca 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Cyprus's biggest holiday: Good Friday processions, midnight Resurrection services with fireworks, then family feasts.96
- Lanzarote 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.96
- Ténérife 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.96
- Limassol 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)Shops and offices shut from Good Friday and the city goes to the villages in the Troodos foothills.96
- Bethléem 🇵🇸 État de PalestineHoly Week and Easter · 20 mars – 5 mai (en général)Palm Sunday to Easter, with the Western and Eastern dates usually a week or so apart and pilgrims walking the road from Jerusalem for both.96
- Paphos 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)The biggest week of the Cypriot year: bonfires outside the village churches on the Saturday night, lamb on the Sunday, and everything except the tavernas shut for two days.94
- Séville 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Sixty brotherhoods walk from their churches to the cathedral over eight days and nights.94
- Mendoza 🇦🇷 ArgentineSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.94
- Beyrouth 🇱🇧 LibanEaster, twice · 20 mars – 10 mai (en général)Lebanon keeps both calendars, so the country effectively takes two Easters some years and the closures are spread across several weeks.94
- Malaga 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 20 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Malaga's processions are the heaviest in Spain — thrones carried by two hundred men, moving through the centre from afternoon into the small hours all week.94
- Las Palmas de Grande Canarie 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.94
- Nauplie 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The Good Friday epitaphios processions come down through the marble streets to the waterfront, and the whole of Athens seems to have booked the same weekend.94
- Athènes 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 28 mars – 5 mai (en général)Athens empties for a week as the city goes back to the villages.93
- Héraklion 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Shops, museums and half the restaurants shut from Good Friday through Easter Monday while the villages roast lamb.93
- Rhodes 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts.93
- Le Cap 🇿🇦 Afrique du SudEaster long weekend · 20 mars – 20 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.93
- San Pedro de Atacama 🇨🇱 ChiliSemana Santa · 15 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.93
- La Valette 🇲🇹 MalteGood Friday processions · 20 mars – 25 avr. (en général)Holy Week peaks on Good Friday, a public holiday when shops shut and costumed processions carry life-size statues of the Passion through town.93
- Nicosie 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Shops, museums and offices in the south close for the long weekend and the city empties towards the villages and the coast.93
- Byblos 🇱🇧 LibanHoly Week · 20 mars – 10 mai (en général)Byblos is a Christian town and Holy Week is its serious season, with processions out of the old churches and the port restaurants opening properly for the first time since autumn.93
- Marrakech 🇲🇦 MarocEaster week · 25 mars – 20 avr. (en général)European school holidays fill the riads at the best time of year for the medina.92
- Funchal 🇵🇹 PortugalEaster week · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches.92
- Santorin 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)The villages fill for the week: an effigy burned in Pyrgos on the Saturday, lamb on the Sunday, and the island open for business a fortnight early.92
- Valence 🇪🇸 EspagneSemana Santa · 15 mars – 26 avr. (en général)Good Friday is a national holiday and every region adds Holy Thursday or Easter Monday.92
…et 438 de plus en avril.
Pâques et Semaine sainte en mai
- Paphos 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)The biggest week of the Cypriot year: bonfires outside the village churches on the Saturday night, lamb on the Sunday, and everything except the tavernas shut for two days.95
- Páros 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The Ekatontapyliani in Parikia is one of the oldest churches in Greece and it fills for the Friday epitaphios.95
- Héraklion 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Shops, museums and half the restaurants shut from Good Friday through Easter Monday while the villages roast lamb.94
- Santorin 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)The villages fill for the week: an effigy burned in Pyrgos on the Saturday, lamb on the Sunday, and the island open for business a fortnight early.94
- Mykonos 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The island's real new year: Greek visitors arrive, the first hotels unshutter and Chora goes from village to resort inside a week.94
- Zante 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)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.94
- Athènes 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 28 mars – 5 mai (en général)Athens empties for a week as the city goes back to the villages.93
- Rhodes 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts.93
- Belgrade 🇷🇸 SerbieOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.93
- Salamanque 🇪🇸 EspagneLunes de Aguas · 30 mars – 5 mai (en général)The Monday after Easter Monday, when the whole city takes hornazo, a pork and egg pie, down to the banks of the Tormes and eats outdoors.93
- Kos 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The first weekend the island wakes up: Greek families come out from Athens and the Dodecanese, the tavernas in Kos town reopen for it, and the spit-roasts are on the Sunday.93
- Niš 🇷🇸 SerbieOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.93
- Naxos 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Naxos does Easter better than most of the Cyclades because it has villages rather than just a port.93
- Céphalonie 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Athens comes over for the long weekend and it is the moment the island wakes up: tavernas reopen, the ferries add sailings and the villages roast lamb on the Sunday.93
- Corfou 🇬🇷 GrèceCorfu Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The most Venetian Easter in Greece: philharmonic bands in the streets all week, then at eleven on Holy Saturday morning the old town throws clay pots of water off its balconies.92
- Nauplie 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The Good Friday epitaphios processions come down through the marble streets to the waterfront, and the whole of Athens seems to have booked the same weekend.92
- Jérusalem 🇮🇱 IsraëlHoly Week and Easter · 20 mars – 10 mai (en général)Western and Orthodox Easter often fall a week or more apart, so the Old City runs two sets of processions.91
- La Canée 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The biggest weekend of the Greek year: the villages fill with returning families, lamb goes on the spit on Sunday and shops shut for days around it.91
- Limassol 🇨🇾 ChypreOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 5 mai (en général)Shops and offices shut from Good Friday and the city goes to the villages in the Troodos foothills.91
- Novi Sad 🇷🇸 SerbieOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.91
- Timișoara 🇷🇴 RoumanieOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Good Friday to Easter Monday are public holidays.91
- Chișinău 🇲🇩 MoldavieOrthodox Easter and Blajini · 5 avr. – 20 mai (en général)Midnight services, then a week later Paștele Blajinilor, when families eat at the graves and the roads out to the villages jam solid for a day.91
- Milos 🇬🇷 GrèceOrthodox Easter · 1 avr. – 10 mai (en général)Greeks come home for it and the island effectively opens for the year the same weekend.91
- Bethléem 🇵🇸 État de PalestineHoly Week and Easter · 20 mars – 5 mai (en général)Palm Sunday to Easter, with the Western and Eastern dates usually a week or so apart and pilgrims walking the road from Jerusalem for both.91
- Bucarest 🇷🇴 RoumanieOrthodox Easter · 5 avr. – 10 mai (en général)The city empties to the villages for the long weekend.90
…et 27 de plus en mai.