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

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Resorts shut for winter (1. nov – 31. mar), Olive harvest (1. nov – 15. jan (vanligvis))

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: Resorts shut for winter (1. nov – 31. mar)

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

• 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), Resorts shut for winter (1. nov – 31. mar)

Toppsesong — Orthodox Easter, Cruise calls in the Old Town

• Åpning

  Resort season opens

  1. apr – 10. mai · vanligvisSommersesongen åpner

  Charter flights, the east-coast hotels and the Lindos tavernas restart around Easter. Everything is open and nothing is full, which is the case for about six weeks. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Orthodox Easter

  10.–13. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkStengninger

  Greeks travel for it, so the ferries and the island hotels fill before the foreign season starts. Midnight on Holy Saturday is fireworks and church bells everywhere at once. Kilde ↗

• Sesong

  Cruise calls in the Old Town

  15. apr – 31. okt · vanligvisCruisesesongMye folk

  Ships tie up beside the medieval walls and the Street of the Knights belongs to their tours between about ten and four. Before and after that the Old Town is a different place.

Travelt — Cruise calls in the Old Town, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Fortsatt på gang: Resort season opens (1. apr – 10. mai (vanligvis)), Orthodox Easter (10.–13. apr), Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

• Sesong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  10. jun – 31. okt · vanligvis

  The east coast is the swimmable side and stays comfortable to the end of October. The west coast has the wind and the waves, which is why the kitesurfers are all at Prasonisi.

• Natur

  Moths at Petaloudes

  15. jun – 15. sep · vanligvisDyrelivssesong

  Jersey tiger moths gather in their thousands in the shaded valley at Petaloudes for the dry months, and the site is closed to visitors outside them. Clapping to make them fly is both banned and pointless. Kilde ↗

• Fare

  Wildfire season

  15. jun – 30. sep · vanligvisRøyksesong

  The island's interior burns in the worst summers and the 2023 fires emptied the southeast coast for a week. Risk is graded daily and access to the forested middle is restricted on the high days. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

• Sesong

  The meltemi

  1. jul – 31. aug · vanligvisVindsesongRisiko

  The summer north wind gets up most afternoons and blows for days at a stretch. It makes the heat bearable, closes the west-coast beaches to swimmers and occasionally stops the small ferries.

Fortsatt på gang: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10. jun – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15. jun – 15. sep (vanligvis)), Wildfire season (15. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Assumption on 15 August

• Helligdag

  Assumption on 15 August

  12.–18. augNasjonaldagMye folkStengningerBestill tidlig

  The biggest holiday of the Greek year outside Easter. Domestic flights and ferries fill, the village churches hold panigiria with food and lyra until dawn, and shops shut on the day itself. Kilde ↗

• Sesong

  Grape harvest at Embonas

  25. aug – 30. sep · vanligvis

  The Athiri vineyards on the slopes of Attavyros are picked from late August, and the mountain villages hold their wine feasts once the presses are running. The coast is still full; the interior is not.

Fortsatt på gang: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10. jun – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15. jun – 15. sep (vanligvis)), Wildfire season (15. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis)), The meltemi (1. jul – 31. aug (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Summer holidays i Greece

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10. jun – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Moths at Petaloudes (15. jun – 15. sep (vanligvis)), Wildfire season (15. jun – 30. sep (vanligvis)), Grape harvest at Embonas (25. aug – 30. sep (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Cruise calls in the Old Town, Ohi Day

• 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: Cruise calls in the Old Town (15. apr – 31. okt (vanligvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (10. jun – 31. okt (vanligvis))

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

• Stengt

  Resorts shut for winter

  1. nov – 31. mar

  Outside Rhodes Town the island closes: hotels boarded, Lindos down to a couple of kitchens, charter flights gone. The town itself keeps working and is the only reason to come in winter. Kilde ↗

• Sesong

  Olive harvest

  1. nov – 15. jan · vanligvis

  Nets go down under the trees across the interior once the resorts have shut, and the village presses run into January. It is the one thing happening on the island in those months.

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

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Resorts shut for winter (1. nov – 31. mar), Olive harvest (1. nov – 15. jan (vanligvis))