Hva som skjer i Nazaré, Portugal gjennom året

Toppsesong — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Christmas and New Year

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Out of season in town (1. nov – 31. mar), Christmas and New Year (24. des – 1. jan)

Toppsesong — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Carnival holidays i Portugal

Ingenting nytt starter i februar.

Fortsatt på gang: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Out of season in town (1. nov – 31. mar)

Toppsesong — Easter week, Tow Surfing Challenge window

• Helligdag

  Easter week

  29. mar – 5. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkStengninger

  Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches. Many Portuguese take the week around it off, so hotels fill and rates rise for the first busy spell of the year, and some shops and museums close on Friday and Sunday. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Out of season in town (1. nov – 31. mar)

Toppsesong — Easter week, Easter holidays i Portugal

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Easter week (29. mar – 5. apr)

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

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

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

• Sesong

  Beach season on the main praia

  15. jun – 20. sep · vanligvisHavet er varmt nok

  The sheltered town beach is a different ocean from the one round the headland: striped tents, sardines drying on racks, and water cold enough that most people go in twice.

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

Ingenting nytt starter i juli.

Fortsatt på gang: Beach season on the main praia (15. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Portuguese August, Summer holidays i Portugal

• Sesong

  Portuguese August

  1.–31. augSkoleferieMye folk

  This is a domestic resort before it is an international one, and in August it fills with families from Lisbon and Leiria. The funicular to Sitio queues down the street.

Fortsatt på gang: Beach season on the main praia (15. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Nazare, Summer holidays i Portugal

• Festival

  Romaria de Nossa Senhora da Nazare

  5.–10. sepReligiøs høytidMye folk

  The town's pilgrimage week up at Sitio around 8 September: processions, folk dancing, a fairground and bullfights in the square-shaped arena on the cliff. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Beach season on the main praia (15. jun – 20. sep (vanligvis))

Travelt — Tow Surfing Challenge window, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Big-wave season, Praia do Norte

  15. okt – 15. mar · vanligvisSurfesesong

  Atlantic storms funnel down the Nazare canyon and the tow-in crews chase them from the lighthouse headland. Six to ten genuinely enormous days a winter, and no way to book them in advance.

• Festival

  Tow Surfing Challenge window

  15. okt – 15. mar · vanligvisSurfesesongMye folkBestill tidlig

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Tow Surfing Challenge window, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Out of season in town

  1. nov – 31. marStengt utenfor sesongStengninger

  Half the seafront restaurants shut while the surf crowd is here for the waves rather than the town. Rooms are cheap, the wind off the Atlantic is not gentle, and the fish market carries on.

Fortsatt på gang: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Tow Surfing Challenge window, Christmas and New Year

• Helligdag

  Christmas and New Year

  24. des – 1. janJul og nyttårStengninger

  Christmas is kept at home: from the afternoon of 24 December through the 25th most restaurants, shops and museums close, and 1 January is just as quiet. Restaurants that do open on New Year's Eve usually sell set dinners that book up ahead. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Big-wave season, Praia do Norte (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Tow Surfing Challenge window (15. okt – 15. mar (vanligvis)), Out of season in town (1. nov – 31. mar)