Cosa c'è in programma a Winnipeg (Canada) durante l'anno

Folla al massimo — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Canada

• Stagione

  Frozen river trail

  5 gen – 5 mar · di solitoStagione del ghiaccio

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Deep cold (15 dic – 20 feb (di solito)), Christmas Day closures (24 dic – 1 gen)

Affollato — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12–24 feb · di solitoGrande festaAffollato

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Frozen river trail (5 gen – 5 mar (di solito)), Deep cold (15 dic – 20 feb (di solito))

Affollato — March break / semaine de relâche in Canada

In marzo non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Frozen river trail (5 gen – 5 mar (di solito))

Media stagione — un mese nella media

• Rischio

  Red River flood season

  1 apr – 10 mag · di solito

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Fonte ↗

Media stagione — un mese nella media

In maggio non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Red River flood season (1 apr – 10 mag (di solito))

Affollato — Summer break in Canada, vacanze scolastiche in 2 dei paesi da cui arrivano i visitatori

• Rischio

  Mosquito season

  10 giu – 10 ago · di solitoInsetti e malattie

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Fonte ↗

Folla al massimo — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Festività

  Canada Day

  1 lugFesta nazionaleChiusureAffollato

  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. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8–14 lug · di solitoFestival musicaleAffollatoPrenota presto

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Mosquito season (10 giu – 10 ago (di solito))

Folla al massimo — Folklorama, Summer break in Canada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2–16 ago · di solitoGrande festaAffollato

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Fonte ↗

Ancora in corso: Mosquito season (10 giu – 10 ago (di solito))

Affollato — Summer break in Canada

• Natura

  Fall goose migration

  15 set – 25 ott · di solitoStagione degli uccelli

  Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26 setFestival delle arti

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Fonte ↗

Media stagione — un mese nella media

In ottobre non inizia nulla di nuovo.

Ancora in corso: Fall goose migration (15 set – 25 ott (di solito)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26 set)

Affollato — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8–22 nov · di solitoNatale e CapodannoAffollato

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Fonte ↗

Folla al massimo — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Canada

• Rischio

  Deep cold

  15 dic – 20 feb · di solitoFreddo estremo

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. Fonte ↗

• Festività

  Christmas Day closures

  24 dic – 1 genNatale e CapodannoChiusure

  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. Fonte ↗