Hva som skjer i Colmar, France gjennom året

Travelt — Christmas holidays i France, skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Toppsesong — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays i France

• Festival

  Carnaval de Colmar

  10. feb – 20. mar · vanligvisKarnevalMye folk

  The Alsatian carnival season ends with a children's parade and the big afternoon cavalcade of floats and bands through the centre, a weekend that moves with the Lenten calendar. Free and very local. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Carnaval de Colmar, Winter (February) holidays i France

• Festival

  Festival de Paques

  28. mar – 6. aprPåske og stillehelg

  Nine days of chamber music in the churches and the theatre in the run-up to Easter, and the one time in spring the town has a reason to be busy at night. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Carnaval de Colmar (10. feb – 20. mar (vanligvis))

Travelt — Spring holidays i France, skoleferie i 5 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Festival de Paques (28. mar – 6. apr)

Toppsesong — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helligdag

  May holidays and ponts

  1.–25. maiNasjonaldagMye folkBestill tidligStengninger

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Fete de la Musique, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Fete de la Musique

  21. junMusikkfestivalMye folk

  France's midsummer music night, with stages and amateur bands on the squares and street corners of the old town from early evening. Free, loud, and the one night the Petite Venise terraces stay full late. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: May holidays and ponts (1.–25. mai)

Toppsesong — reisende beskriver det som høysesong, Bastille Day (14 juillet)

• Festival

  Festival International de Colmar

  5.–14. julMusikkfestivalBestill tidlig

  Twenty-odd classical concerts in the Eglise Saint-Matthieu, the municipal theatre and the Koifhus over ten days in early July, including free lunchtime recitals by young players. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13.–14. julNasjonaldagMye folkStengninger

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Foire aux Vins d'Alsace

  31. jul – 9. augMat- og drikkefestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  Ten days at the Parc Expo where the wine fair is the daytime half and stadium-sized concerts are the evening one. Rooms in the old town go with it, so book before the line-up is announced. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Foire aux Vins d'Alsace, Summer holidays i France

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Foire aux Vins d'Alsace (31. jul – 9. aug)

Travelt — Colmar Jazz Festival, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Vendanges on the wine route

  1. sep – 20. okt · vanligvisInnhøsting

  Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest. Growers who normally pour at the door are out in the rows instead.

• Festival

  Colmar Jazz Festival

  21.–26. sepMusikkfestivalMye folk

  A week of jazz in the second half of September, ticketed evenings at the municipal theatre alongside free concerts around town. It lands in harvest season, so the wine villages are busy the same weekends. Kilde ↗

Travelt — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Vendanges on the wine route (1. sep – 20. okt (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Festival du livre de Colmar, Christmas markets

• Festival

  Festival du livre de Colmar

  21.–22. novKunstfestivalMye folk

  A free book festival at the Parc des Expositions on a late-November weekend, with a couple of hundred publishers and authors signing. It arrives the same weekend the Christmas markets open, so rooms tighten. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Christmas markets

  23. nov – 29. desJul og nyttårMye folk

  Six markets across the old town from the end of November, and the reason coaches queue on the ring road every December weekend. Go on a weekday morning or accept walking at the pace of the crowd. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Christmas markets, Christmas holidays i France

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Christmas markets (23. nov – 29. des)