Hva som skjer i Georgetown, Guyana gjennom året

Travelt — Christmas and Old Year's Night, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Christmas and Old Year's Night (15. des – 1. jan (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Mashramani, Phagwah

• Festival

  Mashramani

  15.–24. febKarnevalMye folk

  Republic Day on 23 February is kept as a costume-and-float parade with sound trucks working through the middle of the city. The word is Amerindian for a celebration after cooperative work, and it is the country's carnival. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Phagwah

  25. feb – 25. mar · vanligvisReligiøs høytidStengninger

  Guyana's Holi is a public holiday and is played in the open, with abeer and powder in the streets and at the mandirs on the East Bank. Wear what you are prepared to throw away. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Phagwah, Easter kite flying

• Festival

  Easter kite flying

  20. mar – 25. apr · vanligvisPåske og stillehelgMye folk

  Easter Monday in Guyana means kites. Families pack the seawall and the Botanical Gardens with picnics and homemade kites, and the sky over Georgetown fills by afternoon. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Phagwah (25. feb – 25. mar (vanligvis))

Travelt — Easter kite flying

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Easter kite flying (20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis))

Travelt — Guyana Carnival

• Fare

  Flooding in the city

  1. mai – 31. jul · vanligvisFlomsesong

  Georgetown lies below sea level and drains through canals and kokers that only open at low tide. Heavy rain at high tide floods streets in several neighbourhoods, sometimes for days. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Guyana Carnival

  18.–27. mai · vanligvisMye folkBestill tidlig

  A week of fetes and a road parade built around Independence Day on 26 May, the biggest party week of the year. Georgetown's limited hotel stock fills, so book ahead. Kilde ↗

Rolig — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i juni.

Fortsatt på gang: Flooding in the city (1. mai – 31. jul (vanligvis))

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

Ingenting nytt starter i juli.

Fortsatt på gang: Flooding in the city (1. mai – 31. jul (vanligvis))

Travelt — Emancipation festival

• Festival

  Emancipation festival

  1. augStor festivalMye folk

  The public holiday on 1 August centres on the African heritage festival in the National Park: drumming, dance, craft stalls and food villages, with concerts into the evening. Kilde ↗

Travelt — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de beste månedene værmessig

• Festival

  Amerindian Heritage Month

  1.–30. sepStor festival

  September honours Guyana's nine Indigenous nations. It opens at the Umana Yana benab in Kingston with dance, cassava bread and craft stalls, and Georgetown hosts markets and exhibitions through the month. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Diwali motorcade

• Helligdag

  Diwali motorcade

  10. okt – 20. nov · vanligvisStengninger

  Diwali is a national holiday here, and the night before it a motorcade of lit floats runs the length of the city with houses along the route in diyas. Traffic on the sea wall road stops for hours. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Diwali motorcade

Ingenting nytt starter i november.

Fortsatt på gang: Diwali motorcade (10. okt – 20. nov (vanligvis))

Travelt — Christmas and Old Year's Night, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Helligdag

  Christmas and Old Year's Night

  15. des – 1. jan · vanligvisJul og nyttårMye folkStengninger

  Stabroek Market and Regent Street are packed with shoppers in the run-up to Christmas; Boxing Day is also a holiday, and Old Year's Night ends with fireworks along the seawall. Kilde ↗