4月の世界のイベント
4月は、1280か所の旅行先で2532件の季節のトピックがあります：自然の見どころ357件、季節の状況883件、祭り・文化行事226件、大型連休813件、要注意シーズン253件。今月の主役となる季節：イースター・聖週間、国民の祝日、乾季。各項目から、その場所の4月の気候の詳細を見られます。
旅の目的になるもの
花、紅葉、クジラ、光そのもの — その月に合わせて旅を計画する価値のある、短い期間です。
The Tidal Basin's Yoshinos hold peak bloom for four or five days, usually in the last week of March.
出典：nps.gov
The front usually reaches Tokyo in the last week of March and peaks in the first days of April.
Whale sharks feed along the outside of the reef from March into August, spotter plane overhead and a licensed boat below.
The commercial fields between here and Haarlem run daffodils, then hyacinths, then tulips, and Keukenhof opens on the same clock.
出典：keukenhof.nl
The cold months are when trackers find them: fewer visitors, snow that holds a print, and long low light at both ends of the day.
ほかにも：チリのプエルト・ナターレス
Boats leave the harbour before dawn for the shelf edge an hour or two out, and sightings are close to routine between December and March.
Plankton in the straits brings reef mantas onto the cleaning stations around Dampier and Arborek, densest in the first months of the year.
ほかにも：インドネシアのラブハンバジョ
The plain is green for eight weeks a year and this is them: poppies between the cork oaks, storks on every chimney and the walking round the megaliths at its easiest.
Thirty-odd varieties open in sequence around the station, the Yoshinos in the middle of March.
Azaleas, wisteria and dogwood go over in late March and early April, and Middleton and Magnolia plantations are the reason the shoulder season is not cheap here.
The roadsides west of the city go blue for about a month from mid-March, best after a wet winter.
The ridge above Ghoom and the Singalila road towards Sandakphu flower through spring, magnolia first and rhododendron behind it.
Yellow along the coast roads and around Seongsan, a few weeks before the mainland.
The mid-hill forests above the valley go red and pink from around 1,500 metres up, which is why April is the month people trek the Annapurna foothills.
The forest between Ulleri and Ghorepani turns red and pink for about six weeks, which is the whole reason the Poon Hill walk is a spring trip rather than an autumn one.
The terraced garden below the Zabarwan opens for about a month once the beds are ready, usually from the third week of March, and peaks in the first week of April.
Qinglong Temple, where the Japanese monk Kukai studied, has hundreds of cherry trees that flower from late March.
Four weeks of programming fixed to a calendar, around a bloom that is not.
Usually peaking mid-April, best in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Japanese collection and along the reservoir in Central Park.
The beech slopes under Fitz Roy go red and copper for about five weeks, with the first snow on the tops behind them.
ほかにも：アルゼンチンのサン・カルロス・デ・バリローチェ
The municipality plants millions of bulbs across Emirgan, Gulhane and the Asian-side parks.
The commercial bulb fields an hour north of the city run all April, usually peaking in the middle two weeks.
The city closes the road behind the National Assembly for the blossom for about five days, adds stages and food stalls, and everyone in Seoul goes.
The garden tulip came from these mountains, and the wild Greigii and Kaufmanniana still come up red on the slopes above the city alongside the poppies.
The beech wood at Halle, a short train ride south-west of Brussels, turns violet with bluebells for about two weeks, usually peaking in mid to late April.
出典：hallerbos.be
The poplars and larches in the old gold town turn through late April, which is the one thing every New Zealander drives here for out of ski season.
Ten days of balloon flights over Hegra at dawn and tethered glow nights after dark.
Moss phlox planted in bands under the mountain, with the peak usually in the first half of May.
The lakefront funnels migrants into a few acres of scrub at Montrose, and on a good May morning the Magic Hedge holds more warbler species than most states see in a year.
Three million bulbs along the island roads and a parade of antique cars out to Siasconset for a tailgate picnic, on the last weekend of April.
The Somei-Yoshino grove in High Park peaks for four to ten days, usually at the turn of April into May.
Hokkaido gets both at once, usually in the first half of May, a month behind Tokyo, and Maruyama Park does hanami with lamb on a grill.
Resplendent quetzals nest along the Sendero Los Quetzales and the flanks of Baru through these months, when the males hold territory near the cavities and a guide can usually put you on one before breakfast.
The tail of the dive season at Richelieu Rock and Koh Bon, when the plankton is up and the big animals follow it.
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その土地のいま
モンスーン、乾季、リフトの運行、泳げる海水温 — 天気が実際にどうなっているかです。
The clubs, the beach clubs and most of the island's restaurants all open across three or four weekends from late April.
出典：ibiza.travel
The Siq and the Treasury are lit by candle bags five evenings a week, Sunday to Thursday, ticketed separately from the day pass and not included in it.
Operators fly at sunrise only, from around the Thadingyut full moon to the first week of April, and stand down for the rains.
The first plucking after the winter dormancy, from about the third week of March, is the year's most valuable tea and the estates run tours and tastings around it.
Pickers work the steep tea gardens above the cloud line for the spring flush, prized as some of Taiwan's most fragrant oolong; roads through the plantations get busy with buyers before it tapers off by late April.
The watch industry's biggest fair takes over Palexpo for a week each April, with public days at the end.
A world tour surf event held over a waiting period at Main Break and The Box, so the day it runs is called each morning.
The glass palaces of the royal estate open to the public for about three weeks each spring, when the plants are in flower.
出典：monarchie.be
The Damask roses south of the Atlas are picked at dawn through late April and May, and Kelaat M'Gouna holds its rose festival at the height of it.
The valleys inland pick through February and March into early April, and the estates run harvest festivals and grape stomping alongside it.
Picking runs from mid-February into April, earliest in the warm east and latest up in the Uco Valley.
The best window on the sandstone: cool rock, long days and the wadis still green in a good year.
Bluefin are trapped in fixed nets off Barbate and Zahara for a few weeks in late spring, and every restaurant down the coast builds its menu on it until the quota runs out.
The terraces above Longsheng are flooded for rice planting and hold the sky for about six weeks.
Paradise, Super Paradise and the Psarou loungers stagger their openings through May, and the Delos boats start with them.
Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.
Tivoli opens for the summer at the end of March and shuts in the third week of September.
出典：tivoli.dk
The amphitheatre runs from about April to early November, with sunrise yoga and film nights filling the gaps between shows.
Navigation opens on 10 April, and from then until the end of November a dozen bridges over the Neva raise every night for shipping.
The interior roads out of West Yellowstone are ploughed open in stages from mid-April and close again to cars in early November, after which it is snowcoach or nothing.
出典：nps.gov
The cave entrance is barely a metre high at low tide, so a boatman can only lie you flat and row you through when the sea is calm enough; rough winter seas suspend the trips for days or weeks at a stretch even though the site itself has no fixed closing date.
The valley opens with a ceremony in the middle of April and closes on 15 November, when the hotels shut and the road is gated.
The snow-free window on the standard route, when the walk up is a long slog rather than a mountaineering day.
The Grand Cascade is started with a ceremony in the last days of April and shut down in the second week of October.
The open-air pavilion park reopens in mid-October and runs to late May, which is as good a marker as any for when Dubai becomes an outdoor city again.
The sap runs when nights freeze and days thaw, so the cabanes a sucre outside the city open for roughly six weeks in March and April.
Sugar bushes east of the city and across the river in the Outaouais open for pancake breakfasts and maple taffy on snow.
The valleys either side of the city bring in the harvest through March and hold their own festivals for it; hot days and cold nights all month.
Freezing nights and thawing days run the sap, and the sugarhouses open their doors on the state's open-house weekend in late March.
Freezing nights and thawing days start the sap, and the cabanes a sucre on Ile d'Orleans and south of the river open for six weeks of ham, syrup and taffy rolled on snow.
Six weeks of grey slush, when the snow goes dirty, the pavements are ankle-deep by midday and frozen again by evening.
The resort's own selling point: sun, slush by noon and the Mediterranean visible from the top station.
Long sunny days, soft afternoons and the cheapest lift and bed prices of the winter, with the caveat that the lower runs back to the village go patchy first.
The leaf picked before Qingming is the one that costs a fortune, and the hills at Meijiawu are full of pickers for a fortnight.
The sticky weeks before the monsoon are the backwaters' low season: houseboat rates drop well below winter prices and the canals are uncrowded, though midday on deck is hard going.
The Uganda Wildlife Authority discounts the gorilla permit in April, May and November, which are the wettest months here.
April and May are the mornings balloons actually get off the ground; operators fly most days and the valleys are green rather than dust-coloured.
ほかにも：トルコのユルギュップ
The heavier of the two wet spells: clear mornings on the reservoir, cloud on the Piedra by two and a downpour after it.
ほかにも：コロンビアのVilla de Leyva、ボゴタ
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祭り・文化
その土地で知られる祭りと、街が祭り一色になる週です。
Three days at Aintree in early April with the National on the Saturday.
A fairground of a thousand marquees across the river for six days, most of them private.
Two long weekends at the Fair Grounds at the turn of April into May, gospel tent and brass bands as much as headliners.
Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
A night race on the Corniche circuit north of the centre, with the coast road shut for most of the week and rooms at their yearly high in years it runs.
Ten days of processions round the Kapaleeshwarar temple tank in the Tamil month of Panguni, peaking with the chariot pull and the parade of the 63 Nayanmar saints.
A day trip 25 km south: five temple chariots are hauled through Nanjangud's main street for Srikanteshwara, followed by a float festival on the Kabini, and several lakh devotees come for the day.
About 50 km north, the hill temple of Cheluvanarayana holds its twelve-day spring festival; on the main night the deity wears the diamond Vairamudi crown in a procession that draws huge crowds.
Five days of concerts staged in the town's halls and then out in craters, chapels and tea plantations across the island.
Opera and orchestral concerts at Germany's largest opera house in the days before Easter.
The Kannada new year in spring: mango leaves over doorways, bevu-bella eaten bitter and sweet together, and a quiet city for a day as offices and most restaurants close.
ほかにも：インドのハイデラバード
Two afternoons of processions out of the City Palace at Tripolia Gate, with elephants, camels and the palanquins of the goddess.
Udaipur's version of Gangaur: two days of processions down to Gangaur Ghat, boats out on Pichola and fireworks over the water.
出典：utsav.gov.in
An all-night procession on the Chaitra full moon from the Dharmaraya Swamy temple through the old pete, led by a priest carrying a flowered pot on his head.
Five days at the convention centre that pull the regional art trade in at once, with satellite fairs and late gallery nights in Central and Wong Chuk Hang.
出典：artbasel.com
Giant floats built by volunteers over the winter parade through the city centre from Place Foch on a spring Sunday afternoon, with a separate night parade a couple of weeks later.
Over the Easter weekend a chocolate market fills Parliament Street and a tasting trail runs through the centre, a nod to the city's Rowntree and Terry's past.
Nine days of trail runs out of Moab ending on Easter Sunday, and the town has nowhere left to sleep for any of it.
出典：rr4w.com
The Reds have opened the season at home since 1876 and the city treats the first game as a public holiday, with a parade from Findlay Market into downtown.
The third day of the third lunar month is a Guangxi-only public holiday built around Zhuang folk-song fairs.
The week after Easter, the world's most serious hula competition fills Hilo along with a craft fair and a parade down Kilauea Avenue.
A rugby weekend that behaves like a public holiday, now at Kai Tak.
Four weeks from late March, spread across the Town Hall and every pub back room in the centre.
The first home game is treated like an unofficial holiday: the stadium lots open hours early and fill with brats, grills and flags, whatever the weather does.
出典：wpr.org
Gaucho rodeo and folk fair run by the city at the Rural del Prado grounds since 1925, held during the same Easter-linked week as Semana de Turismo, with jineteada horse riding, folk music and criollo food stalls.
South Africa's longest-running music festival, on a farm outside Underberg over the Easter weekend.
Europe's big crime-fiction festival takes over the Palais de la Bourse, the city hall and venues across the Presqu'ile for a weekend in early spring: author talks, signings and a city-wide detective game, mostly free.
Nine days of jazz in the wine village of Cully, twenty minutes along the lake by train: ticketed concerts in tents and the temple, plus free late sets in the cellars and caveaux of the old town.
出典：cullyjazz.ch
The Monday after Coptic Easter, when the whole city picnics outdoors on salted fish and spring onions.
ほかにも：エジプトのカイロ
On the second Thursday after Easter a couple of hundred thousand people walk the eight kilometres out to the monastery from dawn, carrying rosemary.
Colombo moves up the hill for the month: horse racing at the country's only surviving course, a motor hill climb, golf and a flower show, all wrapped around the New Year.
Twice a year the republic swears in two new heads of state for six months.
The first weekend of April brings tens of thousands to Temple Square for the church's semiannual conference.
A week of clay-court tennis in April on courts cut into the cliff at Roquebrune, which is technically over the French border.
Five days of acoustic sets in April on stages from a tent at 2,600 metres to hotel bars, with skiing in the morning and the concerts after.
The big week ends with J'ouvert before dawn and the Adults' Parade through town, with free nightly shows in the Carnival Village either side of it.
A World Athletics label road race through the city each April, with the coastal course closing roads along the bay on race morning.
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人であふれる大型連休
大型連休：満員の列車、閉まる店、一年で最も料金が高い2週間です。
Palm Sunday, the Friday Via Crucis at the Colosseum and the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony on Easter morning.
出典：vatican.va
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.
Three days of a city-wide water fight, with Silom and Khao San closed to traffic.
ほかにも：タイ王国のテーサバーンナコーン・チエンマイ、カオラック、Ko Lipeほか15か所
Holy Week here is done in Catalan, not Italian, and the Mysteries processions through the old walls are the reason Sardinians and Catalans both travel for it.
Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends.
ほかにも：アルゼンチンのエル・カラファテ、El Chaltén、マル・デル・プラタほか10か所
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.
Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend.
ほかにも：チリのサンペドロ・デ・アタカマ、イキケ、プコンほか3か所
Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square take stalls of painted eggs and plaited willow whips for about three weeks around Easter, and the long weekend brings the first proper crowds of the year.
出典：trhypraha.cz
On Holy Monday, the day that opens Holy Week, the blackened Christ is carried around the Plaza de Armas under showers of red ñucchu petals, the one procession in Cusco that is entirely for the city itself.
Thousands of pilgrims set out from La Paz and El Alto on Holy Wednesday to walk about 140 km to the shrine on Lake Titicaca by Good Friday.
出典：la-razon.com
On the night of Maundy Thursday six villages in the island's interior set off at ten and walk twenty-five kilometres between each other's churches, barefoot cross-bearers in front.
Good Friday to Easter Monday is a four-day national long weekend, usually next to or inside the autumn school holidays.
ほかにも：オーストラリアのケアンズ、クレイドル山国立公園、エクスマウスほか10か所
Corsica keeps its Good Friday rites.
ほかにも：フランスのボニファシオ
Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays, and on Good Friday and Easter Sunday most shops must stay shut unless local rules or a tourist-area exemption let them open.
ほかにも：ニュージーランドのクライストチャーチ、フランツ・ジョセフ氷河、カイコウラほか13か所
Easter Sunday and Easter Monday (Pasquetta) are public holidays, and Italians use the long weekend for short breaks and day trips: trains and hotels fill, old towns and sights are busier than the weeks around, and many shops and some restaurants close on Easter Sunday.
Good Friday is a public holiday and many Panamanians take the whole of Holy Week off: churches hold processions, some businesses close, and hotels in beach and mountain towns fill with city families.
ほかにも：パナマのパナマ市
Good Friday and Family Day on Easter Monday make a four-day weekend that often runs into the school holidays.
ほかにも：南アフリカ共和国のドラケンスバーグ山脈、ナイズナ、ポート・エリザベスほか2か所
Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Monday are public holidays, and many Belizeans spend Easter week on the cayes and the beaches: water taxis, guesthouses and beach bars fill, and some businesses close on Good Friday.
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday are all public holidays, so many shops close for most of five days and public transport runs a Sunday timetable.
ほかにも：デンマークのオーデンセ
Good Friday is a national holiday and the Easter weekend is one of the year's busiest for domestic travel: roads and bus stations jam, beach towns and country retreats fill with Brazilian families, and prices rise.
ほかにも：ブラジルのフォス・ド・イグアス、グランデ島、マセイオほか17か所
Santiago Atitlan brings Maximon out of the cofradia house and carries him through the town in Holy Week, alongside the Catholic processions.
On Easter Monday the Feschmaart fills with potters selling Peckvillercher, the bird-shaped clay whistles everyone leaves with.
Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays, and many Kenyans head for the coast for the four-day weekend.
On Good Friday tens of thousands of purple-hooded cucuruchos walk from San Francisco through the old town, some of them barefoot and carrying crosses.
Holy Week peaks on Good Friday, a public holiday when shops shut and costumed processions carry life-size statues of the Passion through town.
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知っておきたい要注意シーズン
予報ではなく、リスクがある季節です。ほとんどの週は何事もなく過ぎます。
Snowmelt upstream pushes the river over the lower quays most springs.
The birch count runs high for about six weeks in spring, right as the outdoor tables come back out.
One or two decaying tropical systems reach the upper North Island most summers.
The Bavarian avalanche service rates these mountains daily through the winter, and the danger on steep ground climbs again as the temperature comes up from February into April.
Saharan dust blows across from Africa a few times each winter and spring, dropping visibility to a few hundred metres and occasionally grounding flights.
ほかにも：スペインのランサローテ島、ラス・パルマス・デ・グラン・カナリア
出典：aemet.es
Agricultural fires north and west of the city put a lid of smoke over Bangkok through the late dry season.
Field and forest fires fill the valley with smoke that the surrounding hills hold in place, and the city regularly tops the world's live pollution rankings in March.
Late winter rain on frozen ground puts the river over its banks most years, and the low riverfront roads and Sawyer Point paths go under first.
出典：weather.gov
The grass hillsides above Kagman and out towards Marpi burn most dry seasons, largely from deliberate fires, and the smoke hangs under the trade wind on still mornings.
出典：weather.gov
A fringe of green weed, locally lumot, grows along the shallows in the hot months and is raked off each morning.
Saharan dust blows north over Andalusia most often in spring, turning the sky orange and leaving the pistes pink.
出典：aemet.es
The northwesterly shamal blows for a day or three at a time in spring and takes the skyline with it; flights hold, the sea turns brown and anyone with a chest keeps indoors.
出典：ncm.gov.ae
The windiest stretch of the year across the Rio Grande valley, with afternoon gusts that lift dust off the mesa and shut down balloon flights and small aircraft.
出典：weather.gov
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust over the city for a day or two at a time in spring, and the sea haze holds it in.
For six weeks in spring the whole city turns yellow: cars, porches, water.
ほかにも：アメリカ合衆国のローリー
出典：pollen.com
North Georgia's tornado and hail season runs through spring, and the warnings here come overnight as often as in the afternoon.
出典：weather.gov
Dust off the Mongolian plateau reaches the city several times each spring, turning the sky yellow and pushing the air readings off the usual scale for a day or two.
The weeks before the rains are the hottest of the Bengaluru year, and the borewells drop with them; tanker deliveries and apartment rationing make the news most Aprils.
Dust off the Asian mainland reaches Kyushu first and the worst days leave a film on parked cars.
Spring winds carry interior dust out over the Red Sea coast, whiting out the sky for a day or two at a time and holding flights on the worst of them.
出典：ncm.gov.sa
Hot desert winds push dust over the hills for a few days at a stretch in spring and again in autumn, turning the light brown and the view from the Mount of Olives into nothing.
Still, sunny, rainless weeks in the basin cook the traffic exhaust into ozone, and the city declares contingencies that pull cars off the road.
The wind off the interior turns the sky ochre for a day or two at a stretch, cancelling flights and putting sand through every window frame.
Spring brings the worst air of the year, part local, part dust and pollution blown in from the west.
ほかにも：大韓民国の仁川広域市
The build-up before the rains is the hardest part of the Yangon year, and the city moves indoors between about eleven and four.
North-westerlies lift the dried marsh and desert soil; a bad day turns the sky orange and grounds flights at Baghdad International.
Bukhara sits in one of the dustiest corners of Uzbekistan, and from spring into summer a strong westerly off the Kyzylkum can turn the sky over the old town brown for a day or so.
The spring southerly arrives with a jump in temperature and a sky the colour of weak tea, usually two or three days at a time before it clears.
Hot southerlies off the desert push dust up the rift for a few days at a time in spring, dropping the visibility across the water to nothing and coating everything left outside.
The wettest and stormiest stretch of the year, with hail, tornado warnings and flash flooding on the creeks.
ほかにも：アメリカ合衆国のメンフィス、ナッシュビル、インディアナポリス
出典：weather.gov
The wind gets up in spring and the dunes move with it: gritty air for days at a time, camps struck early and the road east regularly half-buried.
Hot southerly winds pull desert dust over the escarpment for a few days at a stretch in spring, turning the rock flat brown and the light useless for photographs.
Bavaro and Macao face east into the drift and take the brunt of it; hotels rake at dawn and the sheltered coves clear faster.
出典：caricoos.org
Spring is when the warm Gulf air meets the cold front over the Mississippi valley, and the region sits at the eastern edge of tornado country.
ほかにも：アメリカ合衆国のダラス
出典：weather.gov
Gobi dust rides the spring wind up over the city several times a season, turning the sky orange and grounding domestic flights.
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時期は例年のもので、毎年少しずつずれます — 特に太陰暦の祭りや花の見頃。要注意シーズンはリスクがある月を示すもので、予報ではありません。予約の前に最新の情報を確認してください。