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Toppsesong — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis)), Deep winter cold (1. des – 28. feb), Christmas Day closures (24. des – 1. jan)

Travelt — Yukon Quest

• Festival

  Yukon Quest

  1.–15. feb · vanligvisSportsarrangementMye folk

  The long-distance sled dog races leave Whitehorse in early February, the longer one running 888 kilometres of trail to Dawson City. The start line downtown is the part you can watch without a snowmobile. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Available Light Film Festival

  5.–25. feb · vanligvis

  Ten days of cinema, music and panels in the darkest, coldest stretch of the northern winter, which is exactly the point of scheduling it then. It is the town's biggest indoor event of the year. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis)), Deep winter cold (1. des – 28. feb)

Travelt — March break / semaine de relâche i Canada

Ingenting nytt starter i mars.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i april.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

• Natur

  Long summer light

  25. mai – 15. jul · vanligvisMidnattssol

  It never gets properly dark around the solstice at this latitude — nineteen hours of daylight and a long blue dusk that runs into dawn. People play golf and paddle at midnight because they can.

Travelt — Summer break i Canada, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Yukon River Quest

  18. jun – 2. jul · vanligvisSportsarrangement

  Seven hundred kilometres of paddling from the Whitehorse waterfront to Dawson City, run through the round-the-clock light of the solstice. The mass start off the riverbank is the spectacle. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Long summer light (25. mai – 15. jul (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Canada Day, Summer break i Canada

• Helligdag

  Canada Day

  1. julNasjonaldagStengningerMye folk

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Long summer light (25. mai – 15. jul (vanligvis)), Yukon River Quest (18. jun – 2. jul (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer break i Canada, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Natur

  Aurora season

  20. aug – 10. apr · vanligvis

  Dark enough to see the lights from late August until the light comes back in spring, with a break either side of the solstice when it never really gets dark. Get out of the city glow and up the Klondike Highway.

Travelt — Summer break i Canada

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))

Skuldersesong — en helt vanlig måned

Ingenting nytt starter i oktober.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))

Rolig — en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

Ingenting nytt starter i november.

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Fare

  Deep winter cold

  1. des – 28. febEkstrem kulde

  Cold snaps take the territory well past minus thirty and the highways out of town become a serious undertaking rather than a drive. Block heaters are standard and the road reports are worth reading twice. Kilde ↗

• Helligdag

  Christmas Day closures

  24. des – 1. janJul og nyttårStengninger

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Aurora season (20. aug – 10. apr (vanligvis))