Hva som skjer i Salvador, Brazil gjennom året

Toppsesong — Lavagem do Bonfim, Reveillon and Santa Barbara

• Festival

  Lavagem do Bonfim

  15. janReligiøs høytidMye folk

  Baianas in white wash the church steps with scented water at the end of an eight-kilometre walk from Comercio, followed by about a million people and a great many sound trucks. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Reveillon and Santa Barbara (3. des – 2. jan (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Festa de Iemanja, Carnival

• Festival

  Festa de Iemanja

  2. febReligiøs høytidMye folk

  Rio Vermelho spends 2 February taking flowers and mirrors out to sea for the goddess of the waters; the queue at the fishermen's house starts before dawn. The biggest candomble day of the year. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Carnival

  12.–18. febMye folkBestill tidlig

  The largest street carnival anywhere: six days, trios eletricos on two circuits and no stadium involved. Barra and Campo Grande are impassable, and the rest of the city more or less stops. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Helligdag

  Semana Santa long weekend

  3.–5. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folkBestill tidlig

  Good Friday is a national holiday and the Easter weekend is one of the year's busiest for domestic travel: roads and bus stations jam, beach towns and country retreats fill with Brazilian families, and prices rise. Many shops close on Good Friday. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Carnival (12.–18. feb)

Travelt — Semana Santa long weekend

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Semana Santa long weekend (3.–5. apr)

Rolig — en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Travelt — Sao Joao, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Sao Joao

  12.–30. jun · vanligvisStor festivalMye folk

  Bahia takes the June festivals as seriously as carnival, though the best of it is inland at Cachoeira and Amargosa; the city keeps forro, quadrilhas and corn in every form. It rains on all of it. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Dois de Julho, Bahia Independence, July winter break i Brazil

• Natur

  Humpback whale season

  1. jul – 31. okt · vanligvis

  Humpbacks come up the Bahian coast to calve, and they can be seen from the Farol da Barra as well as from boat trips out of the bay. August and September usually bring the most sightings. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Dois de Julho, Bahia Independence

  2. julNasjonaldagMye folk

  Bahia's own independence day: a daylong parade on foot from Largo da Lapinha to Campo Grande behind the caboclo and cabocla figures, with brass bands and politicians. It is a state holiday and feels more local than Carnival. Kilde ↗

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Humpback whale season (1. jul – 31. okt (vanligvis))

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

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Humpback whale season (1. jul – 31. okt (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Humpback whale season (1. jul – 31. okt (vanligvis))

Travelt — AFROPUNK Brasil

• Festival

  AFROPUNK Brasil

  7.–8. novMusikkfestivalMye folkBestill tidlig

  The Brazilian edition of the Brooklyn festival has made Salvador its home since 2021: two days of Black music, fashion and art at the Parque de Exposicoes, with Brazilian and international headliners. Kilde ↗

Toppsesong — Reveillon and Santa Barbara, Nossa Senhora da Conceicao da Praia

• Helligdag

  Reveillon and Santa Barbara

  3. des – 2. jan · vanligvisJul og nyttårMye folkBestill tidlig

  December opens with Santa Barbara at the Mercado and closes with the free new year concerts on the Barra seafront. Beds along the coast go months ahead at their highest rates of the year. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Nossa Senhora da Conceicao da Praia

  8. desReligiøs høytidMye folk

  The feast of Bahia's patron saint, and a city holiday: mass in the open air and a procession through Comercio below the Elevador Lacerda. It opens the run of summer street festivals that ends with Carnival. Kilde ↗