Hva som skjer i Goa (Panaji), India gjennom året

Toppsesong — redaksjonens toppmåned, Christmas and New Year peak

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis)), Christmas and New Year peak (18. des – 5. jan)

Toppsesong — redaksjonens toppmåned, Goa Carnival

• Festival

  Goa Carnival

  14.–17. febMye folk

  King Momo opens four days of float parades that move city to city, starting in Panaji. A Portuguese inheritance and the biggest street event of the season, held just before Lent. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis))

Travelt — mellom toppene, Shigmo

• Festival

  Shigmo

  1.–20. mar · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Goa's spring festival: a fortnight of evening float parades and folk troupes that move town to town, Ponda to Pernem, run by the tourism department. Panaji, Mapusa and Margao draw the biggest nights. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Goa Carnival (14.–17. feb), Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis))

Rolig — redaksjonens rolige måned, Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) i India

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis))

Rolig — redaksjonens rolige måned, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — reisende beskriver det som høysesong, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

• Regel

  Swimming banned on the beaches

  1. jun – 30. sep · vanligvisRivstrømmer og høye bølgerStengninger

  The state lifeguard service red-flags the entire coast for the monsoon and swimming is prohibited on most beaches. It is the rip currents that close them, not the rain. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  São João

  24. junReligiøs høytid

  The feast of St John the Baptist, celebrated by jumping into wells and village ponds to thank the monsoon for arriving. It happens inland in Bardez and Siolim, not on the beaches. Kilde ↗

Rolig — reisende beskriver det som rolig, skoleferie i 5 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Natur

  Waterfalls at full flow

  1. jul – 30. sep · vanligvisMonsun

  Dudhsagar and the Western Ghats streams run hard through the monsoon and the interior is the reason to be here at all in those months. Access roads and the rail-side walk are often closed.

Fortsatt på gang: Swimming banned on the beaches (1. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis))

Rolig — skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

• Festival

  Bonderam

  22. augStor festival

  The flag festival on Divar Island: a float parade and mock fights with toy slingshots, staged at the wettest point of the year and reached by a short car ferry from Old Goa. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi

  20. aug – 15. sep · vanligvisReligiøs høytidStengninger

  The household festival Goans come home for: shops and offices shut, families keep the idol for one, five or eleven days, and the immersion processions fill the river ghats. Not staged for visitors at all. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Swimming banned on the beaches (1. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis)), Waterfalls at full flow (1. jul – 30. sep (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — mellom toppene, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Swimming banned on the beaches (1. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis)), Waterfalls at full flow (1. jul – 30. sep (vanligvis)), Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi (20. aug – 15. sep (vanligvis))

Travelt — mellom toppene, Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali) i India

• Sesong

  Beach shack season

  1. okt – 15. mai · vanligvisTørrsesong

  The shacks are licensed and rebuilt from scratch every October and come down again before the rains. Between June and August there are no beach kitchens on the coast at all.

• Festival

  Narkasur night

  20. okt – 15. nov · vanligvisDiwali

  On the eve of Diwali neighbourhoods parade demon effigies built over weeks from bamboo and paper, judged for prizes and burned before dawn. Firecrackers run through the small hours in every town on the coast. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — redaksjonens toppmåned, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Festival

  Feast of St Francis Xavier

  24. nov – 3. desReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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. Buses to Old Goa run through the night. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis)), Narkasur night (20. okt – 15. nov (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — redaksjonens toppmåned, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Helligdag

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18. des – 5. janJul og nyttårMye folkBestill tidlig

  Goa's most expensive fortnight by a distance, with the Panaji and Old Goa churches full for midnight mass and the north-coast beaches full of everyone else. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Beach shack season (1. okt – 15. mai (vanligvis)), Feast of St Francis Xavier (24. nov – 3. des)