12月の世界のイベント
12月は、1340か所の旅行先で2584件の季節のトピックがあります：自然の見どころ229件、季節の状況1055件、祭り・文化行事157件、大型連休808件、要注意シーズン335件。今月の主役となる季節：クリスマス・年末年始、オフシーズンの休業、乾季。各項目から、その場所の12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。
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 overwintering colonies at El Rosario and Sierra Chincua sit two to three hours east of the city.
Dark enough to see them from roughly September to mid-April, cloud permitting, which is the part nobody can book.
The city turns late: ginkgo along the lake avenues goes gold around the end of November, and the red maples at Taiziwan and Jiuxi usually peak into early December, well after the northern cities are bare.
The colony ninety minutes up the Skeleton Coast pups in November and December and swells to a couple of hundred thousand animals.
For a fortnight around the solstice the setting sun lines up through the arch at Pfeiffer Beach and lights the water inside it.
Ostional, ten minutes up the coast, takes mass arrivals of olive ridleys most months from July, usually a few days after the last-quarter moon and heaviest from September to November.
Thousands of olive ridleys come ashore together at Escobilla, an hour east, several times a season.
The rock pool on the lip of the falls only opens once the river has dropped, usually from the middle of August until the rains put it back under.
Whale sharks feed off the north of the island through the last quarter of the year, thickest in October and November.
Late autumn is when the oceanic whitetips are most reliably out on the offshore reef, hanging under the boats between dives.
The lagoon fills with wintering waders from October: flamingos on the salt pans, spoonbills, avocets and the resident storks nesting on every chimney by February.
Tens of thousands of monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus grove at Natural Bridges from mid-October, hanging in a shape that looks like dead leaves until the sun hits them.
出典：parks.ca.gov
Monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus at the Pacific Grove sanctuary from late October to about the start of March, peaking around the turn of the year.
The corals release on a few nights after a full moon in late spring, inshore reefs usually ahead of the outer ones.
Tens of thousands of starlings turn over the Palace Pier at dusk through the winter before dropping into the ironwork to roost.
The boats run out of Mirissa, three hours south, from November to April, and December to March is when the sea is calm enough to see anything.
Rain over the whole upper basin reaches the falls with a lag, and flow is usually heaviest from November to March, around February at its peak.
Palearctic migrants arrive with the short rains and stay into April, which is when the national park, the Athi plains and the Rift lakes an hour away hold the most species.
Around three hundred black-necked cranes spend the winter on the marsh at Phobjikha, and the valley keeps its power lines underground for them.
The herring come into the fjords north-east of the city and the whales follow them, in the four hours of blue twilight that count as day.
Zebra and springbok drop their young as the new grass comes up, the plains game shifts west, and the predators go with them.
Russell lupins take the lakeshore and the river flats for about six weeks from late November.
Black-headed gulls from Siberia winter along the Qingdao shore, and feeding them from Zhanqiao Pier is the city's favourite cold-weather outing.
European and Asian migrants arrive with the short rains and stay until April, on top of the residents in breeding plumage.
Thousands of northern elephant seals haul out on the beach at the south end of the coast road, pupping in January and moulting into spring.
Herons, egrets, wood storks and roseate spoonbills nest through the dry months, when falling water makes fishing easy.
Thousands of elk come down out of the high country to winter on the flats north of Jackson, and horse-drawn sleighs take people out among them.
ほかにも：アメリカ合衆国のジャクソン
Whale sharks move along the Kenyan coast through the northeast monsoon, and the boats that go looking for them run out of Diani and Watamu rather than Mombasa itself.
This is the only known calving ground for North Atlantic right whales, and a few hundred animals remain in the population.
The road from Gardiner through to Cooke City is the only one ploughed all winter, and the Lamar Valley in the snow is where the wolf watchers set their scopes at first light.
The canyon comes within a kilometre of the shore, so resident sperm whales are here in every month rather than in a season.
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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 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.
A waiting period rather than a fixture: the contests run on the days the swell shows up, and Kamehameha Highway to the North Shore stops moving when they do.
August to December is the full run through the gorge, starting at the first rapid below the falls.
The rock lip on the Zambian side is only swimmable when the river is low, roughly mid-August until the water comes back up after New Year.
Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.
The big-wave contest is called on 24 to 48 hours' notice when the forecast clears about twelve metres, so the town can go from empty to sold out inside a day between October and March.
The heritage and culture festival out at Al Wathba runs from the start of November to late March, with country pavilions and fireworks most nights.
The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.
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.
The high lakes set solid from about the turn of the year, and the road out to Pangong runs on cleared snow when it runs at all.
Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.
Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.
The spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.
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.
Sharp afternoon storms rather than settled rain, and the dust goes out of the air.
ほかにも：ケニアのマサイマラ国立保護区、ナイロビ
Afternoon storms rather than all-day rain, and the dust settles out of the air.
ほかにも：タンザニアのモシ、ンゴロンゴロ保全地域
Adjara is Georgia's citrus corner and the hills behind the city are picked through late autumn, with fruit sold by the crate at the roadside.
The Kehlstein road is closed, the lifts are not turning yet and a good share of the guesthouses take their break.
The presses in the hills around the city run from November, and the first oil of the year turns up in the medina at breakfast.
The glacier above the pass opens for skiing in early November, weeks before anything in the valley, and is the only snow within reach until December.
The groves around Urla and Seferihisar are picked and pressed through November, and the new oil turns up green and peppery in the markets.
The presses in the villages below the Atlas run the new olives from November, and the first oil of the year turns up on every breakfast table in the city.
A month or so of afternoon showers that green the plains and knock five months of dust out of the air.
The presses run from November and the year's oil turns up on every table.
The cable car to 3,842 metres shuts for its annual overhaul for about six weeks in November and early December, which removes the valley's main attraction.
出典：chamonix.net
The groundnut fair around the Bull Temple in Basavanagudi, where farmers bring the season's first crop to be blessed and sold.
The season opens with a free concert weekend in the first week of December, before the snow has usually settled on the lower runs.
The valley opens in stages through December: Grands Montets first at weekends, the whole resort and the Aiguille du Midi from around the 20th.
出典：chamonix.net
The plains between Delhi and Haridwar go under dense fog for days at a stretch in the cold weeks, and the overnight trains and buses run hours late.
Dense plains fog settles over the river for weeks and takes the flights and the trains with it, with delays measured in hours rather than minutes.
The reserve charges its peak conservation fee from July straight through December, at double the January-to-June rate, and it is billed per twenty-four hours rather than per entry.
出典：masaimara.ke
A foehn wind off the Alps arrives with a bar of cloud over the ranges and a hot dry gale in the city, most often in spring.
Once the summer lifts stop at the end of August, most hotels, restaurants and shops close until the ski season.
Da Nang's rain arrives late in the year rather than in the summer, and it comes as days of it rather than showers.
The rain thins out from September and the wind drops, which is when the boats out to the natural pools at Pajucara and Gales are worth the trip.
The year's rain arrives in the last third of it, in long spells rather than showers, and the river can come up into the low streets.
The city earned its nickname honestly, and spring into summer is when it blows hardest.
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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。
The season finale at Yas Marina, with concerts after each night's running and the island effectively closed to anyone without a ticket.
Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
The eight-day festival at Poornathrayeesa temple in Thripunithura, ten kilometres out, opens Kerala's temple season: fifteen elephants abreast and panchari melam in front of them.
A fortnight of heritage programming across Hegra, Dadan, Jabal Ikmah and the Old Town, with guided walks, evening shows and art installations built around the Nabataean, Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms.
The Sawdust Art Festival's smaller winter edition turns its Laguna Canyon Road grounds into a holiday market of local art, ice skating and lights before Christmas.
A nine-day novena at Old Goa ending on 3 December, when pilgrims walk to the Bom Jesus basilica in tens of thousands and the lane of church ruins turns into a fairground.
A classical and international music programme staged by the metropolitan municipality at the Aspendos and Perge halls and in Karaalioglu Park, running from late November into December.
出典：apf.com.tr
Two hundred-odd yachts finish the Atlantic crossing at Rodney Bay through the first three weeks of December, each met on the dock with rum at whatever hour it lands.
Ten days of screenings and red carpets based in the restored merchant houses of Al-Balad, which is the reason to time a visit to the old town for early December.
A week of screenings at the end of November or the start of December, including free ones on a big screen in Jemaa el-Fna.
Three days at the end of November given over to dhow races, donkey races, bao, henna and Swahili poetry along the seafront.
Filmed sessions in the tiny St James' Church in early December, with the overflow shown in the pubs down the street.
The city's founding week at the start of December: chivas with brass bands through the streets, bullfight-week nostalgia and a lot of canelazo.
An early-December marathon weekend running since 1983, drawing runners from more than 30 countries across the 5K through full marathon distances along the west and south coasts.
Ten days of Latin American cinema in the old Vedado picture houses.
Ten nights of rodeo at the Thomas and Mack in early December, which fills the city with a different crowd and books out the off-Strip hotels.
A marathon weekend on the first Saturday of December that runs through the St.
出典：stjude.org
The main fair is three public days at the convention centre, with a satellite fair in every warehouse in Wynwood and Allapattah.
出典：artbasel.com
Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, about half an hour south, lights thousands of hand-lit candles among its sculptures on selected December evenings.
The Colca Valley town of Chivay, a half-day's drive from Arequipa, marks the Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepcion and Peru's national day of the Wititi, a UNESCO-listed courtship dance, with processions and folk parades.
Four nights of light installations around 8 December, free, and the busiest thing that happens here all year: a couple of million people on the same few bridges.
Six weeks of discounts, nightly fireworks and raffles across the malls and the older souks, running from December into late January.
The city marks the failed Savoyard attack of 1602 with a torchlit procession in period dress, a marmite of chocolate smashed by the oldest and youngest present, and mulled wine.
出典：geneve.com
Tens of thousands run it, a large share of them flying in from Japan, and Waikiki hotels price the weekend accordingly.
The feast of Bahia's patron saint, and a city holiday: mass in the open air and a procession through Comercio below the Elevador Lacerda.
The award is handed over at the city hall on 10 December, with a torchlight procession through the centre that evening and central hotels taken over for the week.
The prizes are given at the Concert Hall and the banquet is in the City Hall's Blue Hall on 10 December.
The men's World Cup weekend on the Face de Bellevarde in mid-December: the season's first big crowd, the face closed to the public around it, and beds tight for a week that is otherwise quiet.
An hour and a half up from the lake, Chichicastenango spends the week to the 21st in masked dances, copal smoke on the church steps and the palo volador in the square.
The World Cup stops at the Gross-Titlis-Schanze for a weekend before Christmas, one of the few big hills where the crowd stands close enough to hear the take-off.
The winter concert programme, staged outdoors between the canyon walls over three weeks around the new year.
A thousand-odd Carnatic concerts across the sabhas of Mylapore and T.
The longest night is spent indoors with family, watermelon, pomegranates and poetry read aloud.
Ten days at the crafts village outside town, with several hundred artisans and folk performers from western India and a crowd in the hundreds of thousands.
出典：shilpgram.in
Scenes carved from oversized radishes are displayed around the Zocalo for a few hours on 23 December before they wilt.
Fifteen days of temple fair around the full moon of Pyatho: bullock carts camped on the plain, stalls the length of the approach, and monks receiving alms in a line before dawn.
The oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world fills the rink between Christmas and New Year, and the town with it.
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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。
Six markets across the old town from the end of November, and the reason coaches queue on the ring road every December weekend.
ほかにも：フランスのパリ
The market Germany measures the others against: red-and-white stalls on the Hauptmarkt from the Friday before Advent, opened by a girl in gold.
The oldest Christmas market in France, running since 1570: around three hundred chalets across eleven squares of the Grande Ile.
The tree and the life-size crib go up in the square in early December and stay to Epiphany.
出典：vatican.va
The patriarch's procession into Manger Square on the 24th and midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity, which is ticketed.
Bay Street closes for two all-night parades, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, judged from around two in the morning: goatskin drums, cowbells and costumes taller than the people under them.
ほかにも：バハマのエグズーマ・アンド・キーズ
出典：bahamas.com
The street party in the centre is ticketed and fenced, so the choice is to buy in or stay out of the cordon.
Two million people in white on the beach for midnight, offerings pushed into the sea, and no way in or out of the south zone by car for hours.
The tree, the markets and Fifth Avenue at its most crowded, followed by a city that empties out completely for the last week of the year.
The largest German market outside Germany and Austria runs down New Street and Victoria Square for seven weeks.
Stalls spread across Albert Square, Piccadilly Gardens and half a dozen smaller sites from early November.
About fifty chalets down the Cours Mirabeau from the middle of November, with the santon makers alongside selling nativity figures by the tray.
出典：aix.fr
Chalets fill the City Hall lawns for five weeks from mid-November.
Sint arrives by boat in mid-November and the country counts down to the evening of 5 December, which is the real family night here rather than Christmas.
Small wooden markets in Gamla Stan and at Skansen from late November, and Lucia processions in the churches on 13 December, sung in the dark at seven in the morning.
Workshops on making hobby horses and ugly sticks lead up to the Mummers Parade in December, when hundreds march in disguise in the old Christmas visiting tradition.
The first weekend of December, when the cobbled centre lights up, Santa arrives by boat and the whole island opens for three days before shutting again for the winter.
Wooden huts on Senate Square through Advent, selling glögi and food rather than novelties, with the cathedral lit above them and the market's own sauna at the back.
In the first week of December masked Krampus groups run the streets of the villages around the city with cowbells and birch switches, ahead of St Nicholas on the sixth.
Eight nights of lamps set in glass boxes by the front doors of Nachlaot and the Jewish Quarter, lit at dusk.
At midnight on the last night of November the whole valley sets off fireworks at once for hours, an unofficial start to Christmas with an ugly history behind it.
Main Street is lit for the month and the season runs on Spanish time: the Three Kings cavalcade on 5 January matters as much as Christmas Day, and the shops close for both.
The gardens are lit for the twelve days of Christmas with an outdoor rink and carollers, and it is the one thing that fills the ferries from the mainland in December.
The tree by the Ellipse is lit in early December and stays up to New Year, and Congress goes home.
Masked Krampus figures work the lakeside lane in the first week of December, with a children's run the evening before the main one.
ほかにも：オーストリアのザルツブルク
Two candles in every window, a torchlit student march from Hietaniemi cemetery to Senate Square, and the whole country watching the presidential reception on television.
Ukraine moved Christmas to 25 December in 2023.
ほかにも：ウクライナのオデーサ
Thousands of lights laid out across the terraces above Manarola, switched on every 8 December and left up into the new year.
A hundred lit boats down twelve miles of the Intracoastal on a Saturday evening in mid-December.
Stalls fill Piazza Navona until Epiphany on 6 January, when the old woman brings sweets or coal and the Christmas season formally ends.
Tanzania's national holiday, marking 1961 independence and the 1964 union with Zanzibar.
Around ten million people reach the basilica in the north of the city over two days, many of them walking in from other states.
The island's public holiday for Saint Lucy's feast day; Castries marks the eve with a lantern-making competition, a lantern parade downtown and fireworks.
Thirteen of them, one a night from 12 December, each leaving something in a child's shoe.
Toba is Christian Batak country and the diaspora comes home for it: full churches, brass bands, and every guesthouse on Samosir taken by families rather than travellers.
School and festive holidays send Namibian families from inland to the coast: from mid-December to early January accommodation fills early, rates rise and the beachfront and restaurants are at their busiest.
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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。
The east coast faces the storms the Bay of Bengal sends west late in the year: Burevi crossed just north of town in 2020 and Ditwah flooded the district in 2025.
Fog settles over the plain for days at a time and closes the airport in the small hours, with flights and trains running hours late into the afternoon.
The forty days the valley counts as the real winter: pipes freeze, parts of the Dal ice over, and heavy snow shuts the Jawahar tunnel and grounds flights for a day at a time.
The year's highest tides push the river back into District 7, Nha Be and Binh Chanh, usually around the new and full moons.
Offshore winds arrive over vegetation that has had no rain since spring, and the fire risk peaks before the first storms.
ほかにも：アメリカ合衆国のサンディエゴ
Hot dry winds fall down the Santa Ynez range onto the town in the evenings of late autumn, which is when this coast's serious fires have started.
出典：weather.gov
Hue is the wettest city in the country and the Perfume River comes up into the low streets most years, sometimes for days.
Sustained afternoon rain saturates slopes that have been cleared for farming, and the access roads close for clearance more years than not.
Autumn rain lifts the lake over the walls into Piazza Cavour most years, which is why the city has spent two decades building barriers.
Emergency pollution restrictions run from 1 October: construction bans, diesel-vehicle limits and schools moved online when it escalates.
出典：cpcb.nic.in
October and November are the hard end of the dry season, when the heat builds until the rains break it.
The Thu Bon comes up into the lanes nearest the water most years, usually for one to three days at a time.
Locals call October to December the build-up: still, heavy air and thunderheads that stack up for weeks before they deliver.
ほかにも：オーストラリアのダーウィン
The whole town sits inside the national park, so a bad fire week means smoke, closed tracks and, on the worst days, a closed highway.
Storms this far south are rarer than on the central coast but arrive late in the year, and the ones that have hit here did real damage.
From October the dunes are unclimbable much after nine in the morning and the walk into Deadvlei is a first-light job or nothing.
Autumn and winter lows cancel the inter-island ferries, the helicopter and the flights into Vagar, sometimes for two days together.
The city sits in a bowl with the Alps on three sides, and winter inversions trap particulates for days.
ほかにも：イタリアのミラノ
High water comes with the autumn tides.
Rain over the mountains behind town runs off bare rock and crosses the roads out to Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea.
ほかにも：ヨルダンの死海
Rare and violent: a storm over the mountains sends water down the wadis and across the coast road, cutting the runs to Nuweiba and St Catherine for a day.
出典：ema.gov.eg
Storms build over the reef most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and intersections under water for an hour.
Storms come off the Magaliesberg most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and half an hour of water the stormwater drains cannot take.
ほかにも：南アフリカ共和国のドラケンスバーグ山脈
The season's first heavy downpours regularly overwhelm Baghdad's drainage and pumping stations: underpasses and main roads flood, traffic seizes up and some districts sit in water for a day or more.
出典：shafaq.com
Stubble burning upwind, firecrackers and a cold air trap put the plains under a brown haze from Diwali onward.
Cold still air over the Doab holds in field smoke, brick kilns and traffic, and the monument can vanish from the far end of its own garden before ten.
The Australian season runs November to April and the Whitsundays sit in the middle of it.
ほかにも：オーストラリアのケアンズ、エクスマウス、カカドゥ国立公園ほか3か所
出典：bom.gov.au
The South Pacific season runs November to April, with the risk highest between December and February.
The South Pacific storm season.
Queensland's storm season runs November to April.
ほかにも：オーストラリアのハービー・ベイ
KwaZulu-Natal's rain comes as violent afternoon storms and, every few years, as the kind of flooding that takes out roads and closes the beaches to swimming for days on hygiene grounds.
When the Iguacu runs above the safe limit the catwalk out to the Devil's Throat closes on both sides, sometimes for days.
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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。