Hva som skjer i Zakynthos (Zante), Greece gjennom året

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

Ingenting nytt starter i januar.

Fortsatt på gang: Out of season (1. nov – 31. mar)

Rolig — reisende beskriver det som rolig, Clean Monday

• 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: Out of season (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), Out of season (1. nov – 31. mar)

Toppsesong — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) i Greece

• Helligdag

  Orthodox Easter

  10.–13. aprPåske og stillehelgMye folk

  Zakynthos keeps a Venetian-influenced Easter with brass bands behind the epitaphios, and the island opens for the season the same week the charter flights restart. Kilde ↗

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

• Natur

  Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay

  1. mai – 31. oktSkilpaddehekking

  The bay holds one of the Mediterranean's most important loggerhead rookeries. Females come ashore from late May, the first hatchlings dig out in late July and it runs to October.

• Regel

  Marine park beach rules

  1. mai – 31. oktStengninger

  Through the nesting season the park's beaches are closed from dusk to dawn, umbrellas and watersports are banned on the protected sands, and you keep to the wet strip near the water. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Orthodox Easter (10.–13. apr)

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

• Sesong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1. jun – 15. okt · vanligvis

  Ionian water is warmer and calmer than the Aegean and the meltemi barely reaches here, so the west-coast sea caves and the blue caves are swimmable from June to mid-October.

Fortsatt på gang: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1. mai – 31. okt), Marine park beach rules (1. mai – 31. okt)

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

Ingenting nytt starter i juli.

Fortsatt på gang: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1. mai – 31. okt), Marine park beach rules (1. mai – 31. okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 15. okt (vanligvis))

Toppsesong — Greek August, Agios Dionysios

• Helligdag

  Greek August

  1.–25. augSkoleferieMye folkBestill tidlig

  Domestic holidays and the 15 August feast on top of the charter season. Laganas and the boat trips to the shipwreck viewpoint are at their fullest, and the island's roads are narrow. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Agios Dionysios

  23.–25. augReligiøs høytidMye folk

  The island's patron is carried through Zakynthos town on 24 August with a fireworks finale over the harbour, repeated in a quieter form on 17 December. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1. mai – 31. okt), Marine park beach rules (1. mai – 31. okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 15. okt (vanligvis))

Travelt — Summer holidays i Greece, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i september.

Fortsatt på gang: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1. mai – 31. okt), Marine park beach rules (1. mai – 31. okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 15. okt (vanligvis))

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

• 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: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1. mai – 31. okt), Marine park beach rules (1. mai – 31. okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 15. okt (vanligvis))

Rolig — skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet, en av de dårligste månedene værmessig

• Stengt

  Out of season

  1. nov – 31. mar

  The charter flights and the resort strips stop entirely from November and this becomes a green, wet, farming island. Zakynthos town and the Kyllini ferry keep going all winter. Kilde ↗

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

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Out of season (1. nov – 31. mar)