Wat er in januari wereldwijd speelt
In januari spelen er 2601 seizoensgebeurtenissen in 1330 bestemmingen: 229 natuurspektakels, 1067 seizoenscondities, 219 festivals en culturele data, 748 massavakanties en 338 risicoseizoenen. De seizoenen die deze maand het meeste werk doen: Kerst & nieuwjaar, Seizoensluiting en Droog seizoen. Elke vermelding linkt naar de volledige klimaatuitsplitsing van die plek in januari.
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The herds drop most of their calves on the short-grass plains at Ndutu, in the conservation area's western corner, and the predators concentrate on them.
Close to half a million calves drop in a three-week burst on the short-grass plains around Ndutu, and every predator in the ecosystem is there for it.
Boats leave the harbour before dawn for the shelf edge an hour or two out, and sightings are close to routine between December and March.
Plankton in the straits brings reef mantas onto the cleaning stations around Dampier and Arborek, densest in the first months of the year.
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The overwintering colonies at El Rosario and Sierra Chincua sit two to three hours east of the city.
Sitting on the Arctic Circle, the lights are a regular event rather than a rare one from late August to April.
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Dark enough to see them from roughly September to mid-April, cloud permitting, which is the part nobody can book.
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The Glass House at Lalbagh is packed with a themed floral build for the fortnight to Republic Day.
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Okinawa's cherry is the deep pink hikanzakura and it opens in January, two months before the mainland.
The sun clears the mountains on 21 January for the first time since November and the town marks it with sun buns and people standing on the bridge at noon.
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The world's largest single flower opens in the forest above the park headquarters for three to five days at a time in the dry months.
Humpbacks calve in the shallow water round the Kerama islands from the new year, and the boats out of Naha and Zamami run daily through the season.
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Olive ridleys come ashore on the beaches north and south of town through the first months of the year.
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The Tanneron hills behind Cannes go yellow with mimosa in winter, and neighbouring Mandelieu-la-Napoule holds its Fete du Mimosa with flower parades in mid-February.
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Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve in Samana Bay, and the environment ministry opens and closes the watching season by decree each year.
Thousands of North Atlantic humpbacks calve and court in the bay and the season is fixed by law from 15 January to 30 March.
The short grass plains around Ndutu and the southern Serengeti, reached on safari from Arusha, fill with newborn wildebeest calves and the predators that follow them; camps here book out well before the February peak.
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The rock pool on the lip of the falls only opens once the river has dropped, usually from the middle of August until the rains put it back under.
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Hawksbills come up the beaches on Praslin and Curieuse through the southern summer, and unusually for turtles they do it in daylight.
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The lagoon fills with wintering waders from October: flamingos on the salt pans, spoonbills, avocets and the resident storks nesting on every chimney by February.
Tens of thousands of monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus grove at Natural Bridges from mid-October, hanging in a shape that looks like dead leaves until the sun hits them.
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Monarchs cluster in the eucalyptus at the Pacific Grove sanctuary from late October to about the start of March, peaking around the turn of the year.
Tens of thousands of starlings turn over the Palace Pier at dusk through the winter before dropping into the ironwork to roost.
The boats run out of Mirissa, three hours south, from November to April, and December to March is when the sea is calm enough to see anything.
Rain over the whole upper basin reaches the falls with a lag, and flow is usually heaviest from November to March, around February at its peak.
Palearctic migrants arrive with the short rains and stay into April, which is when the national park, the Athi plains and the Rift lakes an hour away hold the most species.
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Around three hundred black-necked cranes spend the winter on the marsh at Phobjikha, and the valley keeps its power lines underground for them.
The herring come into the fjords north-east of the city and the whales follow them, in the four hours of blue twilight that count as day.
Zebra and springbok drop their young as the new grass comes up, the plains game shifts west, and the predators go with them.
Russell lupins take the lakeshore and the river flats for about six weeks from late November.
Black-headed gulls from Siberia winter along the Qingdao shore, and feeding them from Zhanqiao Pier is the city's favourite cold-weather outing.
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European and Asian migrants arrive with the short rains and stay until April, on top of the residents in breeding plumage.
Thousands of northern elephant seals haul out on the beach at the south end of the coast road, pupping in January and moulting into spring.
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Herons, egrets, wood storks and roseate spoonbills nest through the dry months, when falling water makes fishing easy.
Thousands of elk come down out of the high country to winter on the flats north of Jackson, and horse-drawn sleighs take people out among them.
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Humpbacks come into the bays to calve from December and are usually gone by April.
Whale sharks move along the Kenyan coast through the northeast monsoon, and the boats that go looking for them run out of Diani and Watamu rather than Mombasa itself.
This is the only known calving ground for North Atlantic right whales, and a few hundred animals remain in the population.
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De staat van de plek
Moesson, droog seizoen, liften open, zee warm genoeg — wat het weer werkelijk doet.
The Zanskar river freezes hard enough to walk for a few weeks in deep winter, and permits and a registered agency are required.
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The Siq and the Treasury are lit by candle bags five evenings a week, Sunday to Thursday, ticketed separately from the day pass and not included in it.
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Operators fly at sunrise only, from around the Thadingyut full moon to the first week of April, and stand down for the rains.
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Tamil harvest festival marked across the tea estates with rice-boiling rituals, temple visits and a multi-day estate holiday; liquor shops in the district close for it and some plantation work pauses.
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The rock lip on the Zambian side is only swimmable when the river is low, roughly mid-August until the water comes back up after New Year.
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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.
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The heritage and culture festival out at Al Wathba runs from the start of November to late March, with country pavilions and fireworks most nights.
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The outdoor skating rink around a giant Christmas tree in the glass-towered PPG Place plaza opens in mid-November and stays open, weather permitting, until about the start of March.
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The vega and the road east to Jaen are picked through the winter and the mills sell the first pressing straight off.
Tarocco and moro oranges come off the volcanic plain north of the city through winter, which is the argument for eating here between January and March.
The high lakes set solid from about the turn of the year, and the road out to Pangong runs on cleared snow when it runs at all.
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Nordic tour skating on frozen lakes, Lake Malaren and, in cold winters, the archipelago.
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The spiny lobster season legally runs from 15 June to 14 February.
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The open-air pavilion park reopens in mid-October and runs to late May, which is as good a marker as any for when Dubai becomes an outdoor city again.
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The short break between the two rainy seasons.
The grapes for icewine are left on the vine and picked at night once it holds below minus eight, usually in January.
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The half-hour canal trips run daily from March to mid-November.
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Long-stay visitors from the Midwest and Canada take the condos by the month and the beaches are otherwise empty.
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The state fixes the dates: four weeks of legally regulated discounting from the second Wednesday of January.
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Two of the Messe's biggest trade fairs, Heimtextil in mid-January and Ambiente around the turn of January and February, bring tens of thousands of buyers.
A good share of the summer-house restaurants and galleries shut after New Year and do not reopen until Golden Week.
The harvest holiday empties the city as Telugu families go back to their villages for three days.
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Carvers from around Japan work through a late-January weekend in the castle park, and the finished ice sculptures are lit up in front of the keep on the Sunday morning before they soften.
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International ice carvers compete along Whyte Avenue with an ice bar and fire pits outside, an Old Strathcona tradition since 2003 recently rebranded as Chiseled.
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The world's largest toy trade fair takes the city's hotel beds for five days around the start of February.
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The plains between Delhi and Haridwar go under dense fog for days at a stretch in the cold weeks, and the overnight trains and buses run hours late.
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Dense plains fog settles over the river for weeks and takes the flights and the trains with it, with delays measured in hours rather than minutes.
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The rain comes as heavy late afternoons rather than all day, and it puts cloud into the Colca in the mornings.
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The gulf beaches and the harbour are properly swimmable from January into April, and the water is at its warmest well after the school holidays have emptied them.
The beach huts are boarded and the seafront kiosks and cafés cut their hours or close for the winter.
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The avanto — a hole cut in the ice beside a sauna — is what a Helsinki winter is actually for, and the public places are busiest now.
The overcast lifts and Lima decamps to the beach towns south of the city at weekends.
The park office shuts all six routes up the volcano for the wettest quarter every year, on landslide and lightning grounds, and reopens them in April.
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The water is only really swimmable in January and February, and it stays that way into early March once the crowds have gone.
Cold nights and dry days on the western slopes give the year's most prized picking, and the factories run it separately.
The romanesco comes into the markets after Christmas and stays until spring; it is the one thing every trattoria in the ghetto and Testaccio is judged on.
The trade-wind months, when the rain comes in short bursts rather than by the day and the lagoon on the west side is at its clearest for snorkelling and diving the Grotto.
Storms build over the altiplano through the southern summer, heaviest in February, and the roads up to El Tatio and the high lagoons are shut for a day or two when they do.
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Festivals & cultuur
De festivals waar een plek om bekendstaat, en de weken waarin de straten van hen zijn.
The Streif downhill is the hardest race on the circuit and the town takes about 100,000 people for the weekend.
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A silver chariot is walked from the city to Batu Caves and something over a million people climb the 272 steps behind it.
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Two and a half weeks of masks ending on Shrove Tuesday.
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The season opens on Twelfth Night and builds for weeks; the parades that matter run the eleven days before Fat Tuesday, and the date moves with Easter.
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Haad Rin fills once a lunar month, every month, and the island's boats and rooms price around it.
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The university relay from Tokyo to Lake Ashi and back.
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The Bergisel leg of the Four Hills tournament lands in the first days of January, inside the city rather than out in a resort.
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World Cup slalom races on Sljeme, the mountain above the city, usually in the first week of January.
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A New Year rite at Hakozakigu: two teams of loincloth-clad men wrestle for a sacred wooden ball in the afternoon, doused with water as they go.
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The tech show takes the whole convention economy for a week in early January: room rates triple, taxi queues run to an hour, and the Strip is on business hours.
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Ten days of gardens, bands and coffee from the fincas above town, on the fairground by the Caldera river.
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A week of classical concerts in the churches and theatres inside the walls in early January, with free open-air nights in the plazas.
Sixteen days of rodeo, livestock judging and a downtown cattle drive in the middle of January, running since 1906.
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On one Sunday in January all of Poland holds a charity finale, and Gdansk joins with concerts, collectors with red-heart stickers on every corner and a Light to Heaven firework at eight.
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Sweet bread shared on 6 January with a figure baked inside, and whoever finds it owes tamales in February.
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The child-Jesus icon of Marcaccocha is carried down from the Patakancha valley into Ollantaytambo on January 5, followed by a full day of folk dancing in the plaza and closing festivities through the 8th or 9th.
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Three weeks of baroque music in the buildings it was written for: St John's co-cathedral, the Manoel theatre, the auberges.
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Graceland marks the birthday with four days of tribute concerts and talks, and a proclamation on the front lawn on 8 January.
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Weeks before the street carnival, chirigotas and comparsas compete nightly at the Gran Teatro Falla from early January to a final in February.
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The Santo Nino procession on the Saturday and the grand parade on the third Sunday shut the city centre for two days and draw crowds in the millions.
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Menswear buyers fill the Fortezza and every good hotel in the city in the second week of January, and again in the second week of June.
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The state fair in Leon, about an hour away, runs from early January into February: livestock and craft halls, bullfights, fairground rides, fireworks and big-name concerts.
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A New Year market going back to the Edo period, on the second weekend of January: candy stalls from across Japan, a salt tug-of-war recalling the legend of salt sent to the town, and a costumed procession through pedestrianised streets.
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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.
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Millions of barefoot devotees pull the image through Quiapo in a procession that takes most of a day and sometimes into the night.
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Kalibo, the mainland gateway, gives over ten days to drumming and soot-painted street dancing before the third Sunday, and the island runs its own version after.
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Danilo Perez's festival fills Ciudad del Saber and the Casco theatres for a few days each January, with free outdoor concerts and a student clinic that puts instruments on every corner.
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The town's founding week in mid-January: concerts on the Plaza Mayor steps, exhibitions in the colonial houses, and everyone out on the cobbles after dark rather than in the bars.
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Three weeks of tennis in the middle of the city, and the point at which Melbourne is at its fullest and most expensive.
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The Wielka Krokiew fills with tens of thousands of Poles for a January weekend, flares and all.
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Ten days of yacht racing anchored by the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race, a roughly 90-mile circumnavigation past Holetown and Speightstown that spectators can watch from West Coast viewpoints.
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Kites over the old city all day and a dawn dip at the ghats on 14 January, the day the sun turns north.
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A week of road racing based in the city in the middle of January, with hill stages that close the Adelaide Hills roads for a morning at a time and fill every pub in Willunga.
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Two and a half weeks of folk and roots music across twenty-odd venues in the worst fortnight of the Scottish winter, which is precisely the point.
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The city spends the day on its roofs cutting each other's kite strings, and the old town shuts down around it.
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Five days, free to attend if you register, and big enough that hotel rates across the city move for it.
Four nights that shut Old San Juan to traffic and close out the island's Christmas: cabezudos in the morning, artisans on Calle Norzagaray, and cobbles packed shoulder to shoulder after dark.
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Feestdagen die een plek overspoelen
Massavakanties: volle treinen, gesloten winkels, de duurste twee weken van het jaar.
The tree and the life-size crib go up in the square in early December and stay to Epiphany.
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Bay Street closes for two all-night parades, Boxing Day and New Year's Day, judged from around two in the morning: goatskin drums, cowbells and costumes taller than the people under them.
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The street party in the centre is ticketed and fenced, so the choice is to buy in or stay out of the cordon.
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Two million people in white on the beach for midnight, offerings pushed into the sea, and no way in or out of the south zone by car for hours.
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The tree, the markets and Fifth Avenue at its most crowded, followed by a city that empties out completely for the last week of the year.
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New Year's morning in Pasadena, flower-covered floats and a hundred thousand people on Colorado Boulevard who mostly slept there.
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String bands, feathers and sequins up Broad Street on New Year's Day, a tradition older than the city's independence and unlike anything else in America.
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Ten thousand people run into the North Sea at noon on 1 January in orange hats and are handed pea soup on the way out.
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On the evening of 5 January the Three Kings land at the port and parade through the centre to the town hall, throwing sweets.
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The second Christmas of the season, on 6 and 7 January, with its own procession into the same square.
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On the evening of 5 January the Ateneo's Three Kings parade, one of the longest in Spain, spends about six hours winding through the centre, Triana and Los Remedios, its floats showering sweets on the crowds.
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On the evening of 6 January oak branches, the badnjak, are carried to church squares and burned before crowds, with church bells and sometimes gunfire at midnight; 7 January is a public holiday and many businesses close.
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Atlanta marks the King holiday where he was born, on Auburn Avenue, with a march and a week of events around Ebenezer Baptist.
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The oldest Chinatown in the world does dragon dances down Ongpin and closes the streets to traffic for the day.
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Port Louis has the oldest Chinatown in the Indian Ocean and marks it properly: firecrackers down Royal Street, wax cakes sold out of the shophouses, and a lion dance through the market.
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The lights go on at the start of December and the New Year's Eve display over the amphitheatre of the bay is the reason cruise ships and half of Portugal are here for it.
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Main Street is lit for the month and the season runs on Spanish time: the Three Kings cavalcade on 5 January matters as much as Christmas Day, and the shops close for both.
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The gardens are lit for the twelve days of Christmas with an outdoor rink and carollers, and it is the one thing that fills the ferries from the mainland in December.
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The tree by the Ellipse is lit in early December and stays up to New Year, and Congress goes home.
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Thousands of lights laid out across the terraces above Manarola, switched on every 8 December and left up into the new year.
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Stalls fill Piazza Navona until Epiphany on 6 January, when the old woman brings sweets or coal and the Christmas season formally ends.
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Toba is Christian Batak country and the diaspora comes home for it: full churches, brass bands, and every guesthouse on Samosir taken by families rather than travellers.
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School and festive holidays send Namibian families from inland to the coast: from mid-December to early January accommodation fills early, rates rise and the beachfront and restaurants are at their busiest.
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The peak of the country's long Christmas season: dawn Simbang Gabi masses run 16 to 24 December, lanterns hang everywhere, and domestic travel surges towards New Year, so book flights and ferries early.
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The weeks around Christmas and New Year are the busiest of the year here for both foreign and Thai visitors: rooms and transport sell out early and rates run at their highest.
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The year-end fortnight is a peak for Guatemalan and foreign visitors alike: hotels fill and raise rates, shuttles book up, and fireworks go off at midnight on 24 and 31 December.
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Christmas to New Year is the busiest fortnight on the coast: Kenyan families and holidaymakers from Nairobi arrive, hotels charge peak rates and book out months ahead, and beaches and restaurants are at their most crowded.
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School holidays, Christmas and New Year make the second big domestic travel peak of the year.
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The fortnight around Christmas and New Year is the busiest and dearest stretch of the dry spell between the rains.
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The week from Christmas to New Year is the busiest of the ski season: lodging and lift-ticket prices reach their highs, ski school and rentals book out and lift lines are longest.
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The fortnight from Christmas to early January is the busiest of the ski winter.
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The fortnight from Christmas to early January is the busiest of the ski winter.
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Three Christmases eight kilometres away, on 25 December, 7 January and 18 January for the Latin, Greek and Armenian churches.
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The cave quarters are used as a nativity set over the holidays, which is the one time of year the Sassi are properly lit at night.
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The week from Christmas to New Year is India's busiest holiday stretch: schools and many offices break, domestic travellers pour into hill stations, heritage towns and resorts, and hotels charge peak rates, often with a New Year's Eve dinner surcharge.
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Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day are public holidays at the start of the long summer break: many shops, cafes and tours close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day sales fill the shopping centres, and much of the country is away on holiday until late January.
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Christmas Day and New Year's Day are federal holidays: on 25 December most shops, museums and many restaurants close, and airports stay busy through the week between as families travel.
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Christmas Day, Santo Stefano (26 December), New Year's Day and Epiphany (6 January) are public holidays.
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Risicoseizoenen om te kennen
Geen voorspellingen — de seizoenen waarin het risico bestaat. De meeste weken verlopen rustig.
Once or twice a winter freezing rain shuts the interstates, the airport and the schools for a day or two.
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River-plate humidity on top of the heat, and the porteños who can afford to have gone to the coast.
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The peak of the wet season is also when the canals back up and whole districts go under for a day or two.
Arctic outbreaks off the plains can freeze the lakefront for days, and in the worst ones schools shut and buses run late.
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Six degrees of latitude off the equator and still frost on the tea in the small hours.
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Wadi Musa sits high enough to take snow in some winters, most recently in February 2024, which can shut the site for a day or two while the Siq and the Monastery steps are icy.
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A few inches closes the federal government, the schools and half the museums, and freezing rain does worse to the bridges.
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Fog settles over the plain for days at a time and closes the airport in the small hours, with flights and trains running hours late into the afternoon.
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The forty days the valley counts as the real winter: pipes freeze, parts of the Dal ice over, and heavy snow shuts the Jawahar tunnel and grounds flights for a day at a time.
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The Urubamba runs high through the wet months and a huaico takes out a stretch of track most years, usually towards Hidroelectrica.
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One or two decaying tropical systems reach the upper North Island most summers.
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The Bavarian avalanche service rates these mountains daily through the winter, and the danger on steep ground climbs again as the temperature comes up from February into April.
Phase 2 and the bowls above it shut for days after heavy snow, and a local advisory goes up most mornings through the winter.
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This is among the snowiest and windiest cities in the country, and a single storm shut it entirely for a week in 2020.
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Saharan dust blows across from Africa a few times each winter and spring, dropping visibility to a few hundred metres and occasionally grounding flights.
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Agricultural fires north and west of the city put a lid of smoke over Bangkok through the late dry season.
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Emergency pollution restrictions run from 1 October: construction bans, diesel-vehicle limits and schools moved online when it escalates.
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The whole town sits inside the national park, so a bad fire week means smoke, closed tracks and, on the worst days, a closed highway.
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North Sea storms come in from October, and a named one closes the Scheveningen pier, cancels the ferries and puts sand across the boulevard.
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Autumn and winter lows cancel the inter-island ferries, the helicopter and the flights into Vagar, sometimes for two days together.
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The city sits in a bowl with the Alps on three sides, and winter inversions trap particulates for days.
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High water comes with the autumn tides.
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The exposed coast takes named Atlantic lows from mid-autumn, and the first thing they cancel is the ferry and the fjord sailings rather than the flights.
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Rain over the mountains behind town runs off bare rock and crosses the roads out to Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea.
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Rare and violent: a storm over the mountains sends water down the wadis and across the coast road, cutting the runs to Nuweiba and St Catherine for a day.
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Storms build over the reef most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and intersections under water for an hour.
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Storms come off the Magaliesberg most summer afternoons: hail, lightning and half an hour of water the stormwater drains cannot take.
Ook in Drakensbergen in Zuid-Afrika
Bron: en.wikipedia.org
The season's first heavy downpours regularly overwhelm Baghdad's drainage and pumping stations: underpasses and main roads flood, traffic seizes up and some districts sit in water for a day or more.
Bron: shafaq.com
Stubble burning upwind, firecrackers and a cold air trap put the plains under a brown haze from Diwali onward.
Bron: en.wikipedia.org
Cold still air over the Doab holds in field smoke, brick kilns and traffic, and the monument can vanish from the far end of its own garden before ten.
Bron: urbanemissions.info
The Australian season runs November to April and the Whitsundays sit in the middle of it.
Ook in Cairns, Exmouth, Western Australia, Nationaal park Kakadu en nog 3 in Australië
Bron: bom.gov.au
The South Pacific season runs November to April, with the risk highest between December and February.
Ook in Avarua, Rarotonga in Cookeilanden
Bron: safetravel.govt.nz
Household coal and wood, old cars and a windless inversion over the confluence put Belgrade near the top of the world air-quality tables on the worst January mornings.
Bron: iqair.com
Queensland's storm season runs November to April.
Ook in Hervey Bay in Australië
Bron: getready.qld.gov.au
KwaZulu-Natal's rain comes as violent afternoon storms and, every few years, as the kind of flooding that takes out roads and closes the beaches to swimming for days on hygiene grounds.
Bron: weathersa.co.za
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