Hva som skjer i Chania (Crete), Greece gjennom året

Travelt — Christmas holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Olive harvest (1. nov – 31. jan (vanligvis)), Winter: the coast closes (1. nov – 31. mar)

Travelt — Clean Monday, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Clean Monday

  23. febKarnevalStengningerMye folk

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Winter: the coast closes (1. nov – 31. mar)

Travelt — Independence Day, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Natur

  Spring wildflowers and greens

  10. mar – 10. mai · vanligvisVillblomster og blomstring

  The hills behind the town go green and flowering for two months, and the horta the tavernas serve in spring is picked off them. It is the walking season the island does not advertise.

• Helligdag

  Independence Day

  25. marNasjonaldagStengninger

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Clean Monday (23. feb), Winter: the coast closes (1. nov – 31. mar)

Toppsesong — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) i Greece

• Helligdag

  Orthodox Easter

  10.–13. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkStengningerBestill tidlig

  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. Domestic flights and ferries book out first. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Spring wildflowers and greens (10. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Åpning

  Samaria Gorge open

  1. mai – 31. okt · vanligvisStisesong

  The national park opens when the authority judges the riverbed safe, usually in the first half of May, and shuts around the end of October. Out of season you can only walk the last two kilometres from Agia Roumeli. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Spring wildflowers and greens (10. mar – 10. mai (vanligvis)), Orthodox Easter (10.–13. apr)

Travelt — Summer holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1. jun – 5. nov · vanligvis

  Crete's water is usable a month either side of the Greek mainland's season, and the shallow lagoons at Balos and Elafonissi are warm well before the open coast.

Fortsatt på gang: Samaria Gorge open (1. mai – 31. okt (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  The meltemi

  1. jul – 31. aug · vanligvisVindsesongRisiko

  The northerly blows down the Aegean into high summer and this is the coast it hits. It cancels the Balos boats and closes the north-facing beaches on its worst days; the south coast stays calm.

Fortsatt på gang: Samaria Gorge open (1. mai – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 5. nov (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — August peak, Summer holidays i Greece

• Helligdag

  August peak

  1.–31. augSkoleferieMye folkBestill tidlig

  Greeks take their own holiday in the same weeks as northern Europe, so the old harbour, the west coast beaches and the road to Elafonissi are all at capacity around 15 August. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Samaria Gorge open (1. mai – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 5. nov (vanligvis)), The meltemi (1. jul – 31. aug (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Samaria Gorge open (1. mai – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 5. nov (vanligvis))

Travelt — Ohi Day, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Ohi Day

  28. oktNasjonaldagStengninger

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Samaria Gorge open (1. mai – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 5. nov (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Natur

  Olive harvest

  1. nov – 31. jan · vanligvis

  Nets go down under the trees across the whole prefecture from November and the presses run through the winter. The new oil turns up in the markets green and cloudy.

• Sesong

  Winter: the coast closes

  1. nov – 31. marStengt utenfor sesongStengninger

  Beach resorts, most charter flights and a good share of the harbour restaurants shut for the winter. Chania town itself keeps working, which is more than the villages around it do.

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 5. nov (vanligvis))

Travelt — Christmas holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Olive harvest (1. nov – 31. jan (vanligvis)), Winter: the coast closes (1. nov – 31. mar)