Cosa c'è in programma a Melbourne (Australia) durante l'anno

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Australian Open

• Festival

  Australian Open

  12 gen – 1 febEvento sportivoAffollatoPrenota presto

  Three weeks of tennis in the middle of the city, and the point at which Melbourne is at its fullest and most expensive. Ground passes are the cheap way in. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Chinese Lunar New Year Festival

  21 gen – 5 mar · di solitoAffollato

  Melbourne's Chinatown marks Lunar New Year with lion and dragon parades, market stalls, and firecracker displays along Little Bourke and Russell Streets, extending to the Lantern Festival; one of Australia's largest Lunar New Year celebrations, with timing that shifts each year. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Australia Day

  26 genFesta nazionaleAffollatoChiusure

  26 January is a national public holiday, and for many a day of protest, near the end of the summer school break: capital cities hold fireworks, concerts and citizenship ceremonies alongside Invasion Day rallies, some shops shorten hours, and roads are busy as families head home. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Bushfire season (1 dic – 15 mar (di solito)), Christmas and Boxing Day (24 dic – 1 gen)

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Australian Open

• Festival

  Antipodes Festival

  25 feb – 2 mar · di solitoGrande festaAffollato

  Melbourne's Greek community closes Lonsdale Street for a two-day street party of dance, music, and food, running since 1987 and drawing large crowds from across Victoria. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Australian Open (12 gen – 1 feb), Chinese Lunar New Year Festival (21 gen – 5 mar (di solito)), Bushfire season (1 dic – 15 mar (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Chinese Lunar New Year Festival

• Festival

  Moomba

  6–11 mar · di solitoGrande festaAffollato

  A free river festival over the Labour Day long weekend in March, with waterskiing on the Yarra and a parade nobody takes seriously. The best of the city's free calendar. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Comedy Festival

  25 mar – 20 apr · di solitoFestival delle artiAffollatoPrenota presto

  Four weeks from late March, spread across the Town Hall and every pub back room in the centre. It is the reason April rooms are harder to get than the weather suggests. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Chinese Lunar New Year Festival (21 gen – 5 mar (di solito)), Antipodes Festival (25 feb – 2 mar (di solito)), Bushfire season (1 dic – 15 mar (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Comedy Festival

• Natura

  Autumn colour in the gardens

  15 apr – 20 mag · di solito

  The exotics in the Fitzroy and Botanic Gardens and up in the Dandenongs turn through late April, which is the one thing this city's European planting gets right.

Ancora in corso: Comedy Festival (25 mar – 20 apr (di solito))

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione

In maggio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Autumn colour in the gardens (15 apr – 20 mag (di solito))

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione, Winter (July) break in Australia

• Apertura

  Alpine ski season opens

  6–8 giu · di solito

  Buller, Hotham and Falls Creek open on the King's Birthday long weekend, two to five hours from the city, on whatever combination of snowfall and snowmaking they have. Fonte ↗

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione, Winter (July) break in Australia

In luglio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Tranquillo — il mese tranquillo secondo la redazione, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

In agosto non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Folla al massimo — AFL Grand Final, Spring break in Australia

• Festival

  AFL Grand Final

  20 set – 3 ott · di solitoEvento sportivoAffollatoChiusure

  Finals month ends with a hundred thousand people at the MCG on the last Saturday of September, and a public holiday on the Friday before it. The city stops for both. Fonte ↗

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, AFL Grand Final

• Natura

  Jacaranda

  25 ott – 5 dic · di solito

  Later here than in Sydney and thinner on the ground, but the older streets of Carlton, Fitzroy and the university grounds go purple from the end of October.

• Festival

  Spring Racing and the Cup

  3 novCarnevaleAffollatoChiusure

  The carnival runs for a fortnight and the Cup itself, on the first Tuesday of November, is a public holiday across the metro area. Nothing else gets done that day. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: AFL Grand Final (20 set – 3 ott (di solito))

Affollato — tra un picco e l'altro, Spring Racing and the Cup

In novembre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Jacaranda (25 ott – 5 dic (di solito)), Spring Racing and the Cup (3 nov)

Folla al massimo — il mese di punta secondo la redazione, Christmas and Boxing Day

• Rischio

  Bushfire season

  1 dic – 15 mar · di solitoStagione del fumo

  The risk in the country around the city peaks after midsummer, and a bad day closes the roads and fills the basin with smoke. It affects day trips far more than the city itself. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Christmas and Boxing Day

  24 dic – 1 genNatale e CapodannoChiusureAffollato

  Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day are public holidays at the start of the long summer break: many shops, cafes and tours close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day sales fill the shopping centres, and much of the country is away on holiday until late January. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Boxing Day Test

  26–30 dicEvento sportivoAffollato

  Cricket at the MCG from 26 December, in front of crowds that no other Test match gets. Day one is the one to be at and the one that sells out. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Jacaranda (25 ott – 5 dic (di solito))