Wat er in november wereldwijd speelt
In november spelen er 2325 seizoensgebeurtenissen in 1266 bestemmingen: 318 natuurspektakels, 986 seizoenscondities, 251 festivals en culturele data, 388 massavakanties en 382 risicoseizoenen. De seizoenen die deze maand het meeste werk doen: Kerst & nieuwjaar, Seizoensluiting en Nationale feestdag. Elke vermelding linkt naar de volledige klimaatuitsplitsing van die plek in november.
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Around a thousand bears gather on the coast waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze, and the last week of October into mid-November is when they are most concentrated.
Southern rights come into Walker Bay to calve and stay close enough to the cliff path to watch without a boat.
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.
Ook in Labuan Bajo in Indonesië
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.
Ook in Levi, Rukatunturi in Finland
Dark enough to see them from roughly September to mid-April, cloud permitting, which is the part nobody can book.
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Colour starts above 1,200 metres in early October and works down to the foothills by the first week of November, so there is nearly a month of it somewhere in the park.
Ook in New York, Mammoth Cave National Park, Detroit en nog 12 in Verenigde Staten
Houghton, Killarney and the ridge roads go lilac for a few weeks from the start of October.
Larch and beech above water that is already an implausible blue, for about three weeks.
Ook in Huang Shan in Volksrepubliek China
The coast turns two or three weeks later than inland New England, so the Cliff Walk and Ocean Drive hold their colour into November.
Black oak and dogwood on the valley floor turn through late October and the aspen along Tioga go earlier and higher.
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Whole avenues turn blue for about three weeks, usually starting in the first week of November and best around the middle of the month.
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The sandstone pillars of Wulingyuan and the slopes of Tianmen Mountain are at their most colourful in November, when the leaves turn red and gold.
The maple corridor on the north shore is lit until nine each evening for most of November, with the colour usually best in the third week.
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The maples in Kenrokuen and around the castle park usually turn through November, and the garden opens free in the evening on the autumn light-up nights.
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The city turns late: ginkgo along the lake avenues goes gold around the end of November, and the red maples at Taiziwan and Jiuxi usually peak into early December, well after the northern cities are bare.
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The colony ninety minutes up the Skeleton Coast pups in November and December and swells to a couple of hundred thousand animals.
Humpbacks pass Moreton Bay from June to early November, and the day boats out of Redcliffe and Manly work inside the bay rather than in open sea, which keeps the crossing short.
Humpbacks pass close inshore on the way north and back south again with calves, and the boats out of Main Beach run daily.
Ook in Sydney in Australië
Southern rights and humpbacks work through the bay across winter and spring.
Southern rights and humpbacks pass Walvis Bay, half an hour down the coast, through winter and spring.
Large females pass the far northern rocks through the cool season.
Right whales calve along the coast just south of the island, with the best odds in September and October off Garopaba and Imbituba.
Ostional, ten minutes up the coast, takes mass arrivals of olive ridleys most months from July, usually a few days after the last-quarter moon and heaviest from September to November.
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Thousands of olive ridleys come ashore together at Escobilla, an hour east, several times a season.
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Humpbacks come up from Antarctica to calve in the lee of the islands and stay outside the reef until November.
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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The forest floor and the heath along the Cape to Cape flower from late August: orchids, kangaroo paw, banksia.
Whale sharks feed off the north of the island through the last quarter of the year, thickest in October and November.
Around seventy thousand trees, and Brooklyn, Arcadia and Hatfield disappear under a purple roof from late September.
Late autumn is when the oceanic whitetips are most reliably out on the offshore reef, hanging under the boats between dives.
Hawksbills come up the beaches on Praslin and Curieuse through the southern summer, and unusually for turtles they do it in daylight.
Ook in Victoria in Seychellen
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.
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De staat van de plek
Moesson, droog seizoen, liften open, zee warm genoeg — wat het weer werkelijk doet.
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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China's largest technology trade fair fills the convention center for a week each November, pulling exhibitors and buyers from across the country and pushing hotel rates up near Futian.
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A waiting period rather than a fixture: the contests run on the days the swell shows up, and Kamehameha Highway to the North Shore stops moving when they do.
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August to December is the full run through the gorge, starting at the first rapid below the falls.
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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Alba's white truffle season runs an hour south of the city through autumn, alongside the Barolo and Barbaresco vintage and a month of hazelnut and bagna cauda on every menu in Piedmont.
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.
The amphitheatre runs from about April to early November, with sunrise yoga and film nights filling the gaps between shows.
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Navigation opens on 10 April, and from then until the end of November a dozen bridges over the Neva raise every night for shipping.
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The interior roads out of West Yellowstone are ploughed open in stages from mid-April and close again to cars in early November, after which it is snowcoach or nothing.
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The valley opens with a ceremony in the middle of April and closes on 15 November, when the hotels shut and the road is gated.
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The monsoon pushes plankton into the western atolls and the reef mantas follow it, with Hanifaru Bay in Baa at its most reliable from late July to October.
The two high roads are ploughed open between early May and early July depending on the snowpack, and shut again with the first serious storm in autumn.
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Most of the Maine catch comes ashore between the summer shed and the end of autumn, and prices at the pounds follow the boats.
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 lifts and most mountain refuges are shut and the summer trails are past their best, so the country is down to shopping and thermal baths.
Hotels and most restaurants in the resort villages close entirely for autumn.
Families take a fortnight off to pick the terraces around Beit Jala and Battir and the presses run late into the night.
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The aspens turn, the elk bugle in the Gallatin canyon and the summer operations wind down before the snow arrives.
The rains come back for October and November, shorter and colder than the April round, with grey afternoons and the sabana flooding in the worst years.
Ook in Villa de Leyva, Guatapé in Colombia
Autumn puts porcini from the Apennines and white truffle from the hills onto every menu in the Quadrilatero, and it is the strongest argument for coming here in the fog months.
The wettest weeks of the year on this coast, delivered as heavy afternoon and evening thunderstorms rather than a steady soak.
Lifts, most hotels and half the restaurants shut for autumn, and May is the same story at the other end.
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The rain stops and the wall of rock behind the town is sharp from the terrace of every cafe.
The glacier above the valley turns lifts in October, weeks before the village runs have any snow, so early-season skiing here means a cable car up and a cable car down.
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The monsoon has washed the air and the peaks are visible from the valley rim.
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Rain from both directions at once.
The humidity finally breaks in October, the Gulf holds its summer warmth into November, and the beaches are empty.
Autumn puts porcini, chestnuts and puntarelle on every menu in the city for about six weeks, which is why Romans push October as the month.
October is when Seville reoccupies its squares: terraces reopen properly, evenings need a jacket for the first time since spring, and the light goes long and low.
Clear passes, the high trekking routes open, and a tshechu somewhere most weeks.
The glacier above the Stubai valley starts turning lifts in October, months before anything in the valleys, and it is the only skiing within reach of the city until December.
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The second mud season: the gondola drops to weekends or stops, restaurants take their annual break and the village runs on locals until the snow comes.
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The Kitzsteinhorn turns lifts from about the tenth of October, months before the valley runs.
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Dunraven Pass and the Beartooth go first in mid-October, the rest of the interior at the beginning of November, and the park then sits empty until the oversnow season starts in December.
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Festivals & cultuur
De festivals waar een plek om bekendstaat, en de weken waarin de straten van hen zijn.
The Michoacan version is the one on the postcards: candlelit graveyards on the islands of Lake Patzcuaro, an hour and a half west.
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Altars everywhere, a parade down Reforma that the city invented for a film, and the older, quieter version out in Mixquic and the southern boroughs.
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The first Sunday of November, across all five boroughs.
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The Lanna lantern festival runs alongside Loi Krathong: thousands of paper lanterns released over the old town on the same full-moon nights.
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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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Hundreds of thousands walk behind the image in purple through the centre, with the main days on 18, 19 and 28 October.
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Three and a half weeks of theatre, dance and music across thirty-odd venues from mid-October.
The second session runs the same three phases across three weeks, and does the same thing to room rates.
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Orange marigolds arrive by the truckload for the altars, and the fields at Xochimilco and Tlahuac are worth the trip out before they are cut.
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A hundred works along the Bondi to Tamarama walk for a fortnight from mid-October, free, and shoulder to shoulder on the weekends.
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The season's closing rounds at Sepang, an hour south of the city.
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A free trail of light installations along the waterfront for ten nights around the end of October, lit early because it is dark early.
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Twenty-odd thousand runners past the monuments and over the Potomac bridges on a Sunday at the end of October.
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The city's own ten-day fair around the patron's day on 29 October: barraques by the river, a fairground on the Devesa and the whole province in town after dark.
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The Creole festival runs at the end of October across Mahé, Praslin and La Digue: moutya and kamtole, food stalls, a parade and the one week the islands put their own culture in front of the beaches.
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Four days of fasting for the sun god in Kartik, and the one festival that fills the ghats twice in a day: at sunset, then again before dawn, families standing waist-deep in the river with their offerings.
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An independent film festival in McLeod Ganj since 2012, with documentaries and dramas from around the world screening as the autumn air clears and trekking peaks.
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The largest in-water boat show in the world, five days across seven marinas at the turn of October into November.
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Independent and documentary screenings around Mirror Lake each Halloween weekend, now in its third decade and one of the last quiet stretches before ski season.
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The carnival runs for a fortnight and the Cup itself, on the first Tuesday of November, is a public holiday across the metro area.
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Three days at the Autodromo at the end of October, overlapping Day of the Dead in most years.
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Longboat crews from every province race in front of the palace over three days and something like two million people come into the city for it.
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Three days at Interlagos in the first half of November, with the southern suburbs closed off and hotel rates across the city at their yearly high.
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Nine days of mountain film and books at the Banff Centre at the turn of October into November, in the quietest weeks of the year.
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Usually on the first Sunday of November, starting at Huanglong and finishing by the Olympic Sports Centre; the fun run ends beside West Lake, so lakeside roads close for the morning.
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A Ryukyu court procession in period dress down Kokusai-dori and ceremonies at the castle at the turn of October into November, while the main hall is still being rebuilt after the 2019 fire.
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The biggest film festival in south-east Europe, ten days at the start of November in the port warehouses and the old cinemas on Aristotelous.
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Altars in the university and the plazas, marigolds on the graves at the Santa Paula cemetery, and the mummy museum next door doing brisk trade.
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The Yucatec Day of the Dead: altars in the houses, cemeteries lit at night and mucbipollo baked in a pit in the ground.
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A waterfront festival across some fifteen venues brings touring Australian acts to the marina for a long weekend, filling the town's hotels right as the wet season and cyclone risk are building.
Pre-1905 cars leave Hyde Park at sunrise on the first Sunday of November and trickle onto Madeira Drive all morning, which is exactly as slow and as good as it sounds.
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An hour of fireworks over Gwangalli bridge on a Saturday in early November, watched by around a million people, with the beachfront closed to traffic.
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The only marathon that crosses between two continents: the course runs over the Bosphorus bridge, shut to traffic from the night before.
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Families build home altars for their dead with t'antawawa bread babies, sugarcane and sweets on 1 November, then carry them to the cemeteries on the 2nd, when the Cementerio General fills with music and food.
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Families spend 1 November in the cemeteries above the lake villages, repainting the graves and eating fiambre among them.
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Seventy thousand people arrive at Parque das Nacoes for four days and the whole city's hotel stock reprices around it.
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The only A-list festival in Latin America takes over the Auditorium and the old cinemas for eleven days in November, out of season and pleasantly unglamorous.
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A month of surf contests, regional dance and food nights that the town runs for itself as much as for visitors.
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Three days of music in bars, churches and the concert hall in the first week of November, which is the one thing that fills Reykjavik in the dark half of the year.
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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.
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Feestdagen die een plek overspoelen
Massavakanties: volle treinen, gesloten winkels, de duurste twee weken van het jaar.
Six markets across the old town from the end of November, and the reason coaches queue on the ring road every December weekend.
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The market Germany measures the others against: red-and-white stalls on the Hauptmarkt from the Friday before Advent, opened by a girl in gold.
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The oldest Christmas market in France, running since 1570: around three hundred chalets across eleven squares of the Grande Ile.
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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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Brickfields is strung with lights and open houses for a fortnight, and the day itself is a public holiday that shuts much of the city.
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Lamps on every balcony and a week of visiting either side of the day itself.
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Three nights of firecrackers in every layout, and the morning after is the worst air of the Bengaluru year.
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Durban has one of the largest Indian communities outside India and the festival shows in Chatsworth and Phoenix rather than downtown — lights, sweets and fireworks for the best part of a week.
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Mauritius keeps Diwali properly: clay lamps and paper lanterns down every street in the Hindu villages, sweets handed over the fence, and a public holiday the day after.
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Fiji's Indo-Fijian communities make Diwali a national public holiday: lamps and lights along the Nadi back road, sweets given between neighbours, and shops shut for the day itself.
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The five-day festival of lights comes soon after Dashain: houses are lit with oil lamps and strings of lights, crows, dogs and cows are honoured with garlands, and groups go door to door singing deusi and bhailo at night.
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Little India is lit for several weeks either side of the day and the night market runs late; the holiday itself closes Indian-run businesses for a day.
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On the eve of Diwali neighbourhoods parade demon effigies built over weeks from bamboo and paper, judged for prizes and burned before dawn.
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Altars and an all-night gathering in the Hollywood Forever cemetery on the Saturday nearest 2 November, plus nine days of processions on Olvera Street.
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For All Saints' Day families fill Mirogoj, the arcaded city cemetery, and after dark it glows with thousands of candles.
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1 November is a public holiday when shops close and families travel to their home towns to visit graves.
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On 1 November the villages half an hour up the road, Sumpango and Santiago Sacatepequez, raise barriletes the height of a house over the cemetery while families eat fiambre among the graves.
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The largest German market outside Germany and Austria runs down New Street and Victoria Square for seven weeks.
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2 November, Day of the Dead, and 3 November, Cuenca's independence day, make a national long weekend.
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On Kartik Purnima, a fortnight after Diwali, every step of every ghat is set with oil lamps and the whole river front is lit at once.
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Stalls spread across Albert Square, Piccadilly Gardens and half a dozen smaller sites from early November.
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Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route.
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About fifty chalets down the Cours Mirabeau from the middle of November, with the santon makers alongside selling nativity figures by the tray.
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Chalets fill the City Hall lawns for five weeks from mid-November.
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Sint arrives by boat in mid-November and the country counts down to the evening of 5 December, which is the real family night here rather than Christmas.
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National Day falls on 20 November and brings two days of public holiday, which the government has sometimes moved to later in the month to make a long weekend.
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Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, is the country's biggest travel holiday: airports and highways are at their busiest on the Wednesday before and the Sunday after, and on the day itself offices, banks and many shops close.
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Down Woodward on Thanksgiving morning since 1924, followed by the Lions game at noon.
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Small wooden markets in Gamla Stan and at Skansen from late November, and Lucia processions in the churches on 13 December, sung in the dark at seven in the morning.
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Workshops on making hobby horses and ugly sticks lead up to the Mummers Parade in December, when hundreds march in disguise in the old Christmas visiting tradition.
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The first weekend of December, when the cobbled centre lights up, Santa arrives by boat and the whole island opens for three days before shutting again for the winter.
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Wooden huts on Senate Square through Advent, selling glögi and food rather than novelties, with the cathedral lit above them and the market's own sauna at the back.
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In the first week of December masked Krampus groups run the streets of the villages around the city with cowbells and birch switches, ahead of St Nicholas on the sixth.
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Eight nights of lamps set in glass boxes by the front doors of Nachlaot and the Jewish Quarter, lit at dusk.
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The parade at the Garrison Savannah on 30 November opens the Christmas season, and the island is in ultramarine and gold for the whole month around it.
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At midnight on the last night of November the whole valley sets off fireworks at once for hours, an unofficial start to Christmas with an ugly history behind it.
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Carols in the malls from the first of September and four months of it.
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Risicoseizoenen om te kennen
Geen voorspellingen — de seizoenen waarin het risico bestaat. De meeste weken verlopen rustig.
Autumn brings the downpours that flattened Vernazza and Monterosso in 2011.
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Crop residue burns across Punjab and Haryana in the weeks around early November and the smoke drifts onto the city.
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The east coast faces the storms the Bay of Bengal sends west late in the year: Burevi crossed just north of town in 2020 and Ditwah flooded the district in 2025.
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Aklan sits inside the storm track.
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Barbados sits at the eastern end of the arc, ahead of most storms rather than under them, and is brushed far more often than hit.
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The Atlantic season runs June to November, with most activity between mid-August and mid-October.
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Far enough south to be missed most years, but Tomas arrived at the end of October 2010 and took the roads and the water supply with it.
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The island is barely a metre above the sea and evacuates by water taxi.
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Officially June to November, with the risk concentrated between mid-August and early October.
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Irma and Maria crossed the territory two weeks apart in September 2017 and the islands still plan around that fortnight.
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June to November on paper, with the real risk from mid-August to early October, when the island also has its cheapest rooms and its emptiest dive boats.
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The wet half of the year is called hivernage, and the storm risk sits inside it, concentrated between mid-August and early October.
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The official season runs June to November and the activity is concentrated from mid-August to mid-October.
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Havana's weak point is the Malecon: a system passing well offshore pushes the sea over the wall and floods Centro Habana for a day or two.
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The season runs June to November and most systems weaken or pass south of the islands, but Hilo is the town on the windward side and takes the rain when one does track close.
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North-east Florida is hit less often than the peninsula, but the St Johns River backs up on storm surge and floods downtown and San Marco when a system passes anywhere nearby.
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Melissa came ashore in Westmoreland at the end of October 2025 as the strongest storm on record to hit Jamaica, and the west of the island is still rebuilding.
Ook in Negril, Ocho Rios, Kingston in Jamaica
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Dorian stalled over Abaco and Grand Bahama for two days in September 2019.
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Six official months, but the risk concentrates between mid-August and mid-October.
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The wet half of the year is hivernage and the storm risk sits inside it, worst from mid-August to early October.
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Irma passed directly over the islands in September 2017.
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Hispaniola sits in the main track and the risk is loaded into the September and October half of the season.
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The island sits west of the main Caribbean track and direct hits are generational here, Mitch in 1998 being the one everyone names.
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Direct hits are rare but not unheard of here, and the season's real effect is a week of swell, rain and cancelled boats to Providencia.
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Maria came ashore in September 2017 and the island still plans around that month.
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Tobago sits at the southern edge of the belt and direct hits are rare enough that islanders name them by decade, but the tropical waves that cross it bring the wettest weeks of the year and cancel boat days.
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The Ventana wilderness burns regularly and a bad fire closes the highway, the state parks and the campgrounds at once.
Bron: inciweb.wildfire.gov
The Marianas sit in the middle of the western Pacific storm track and take a serious hit every few years.
Bron: en.wikipedia.org
The highest autumn tides put salt water over the Battery and into the lower peninsula streets on clear days, no storm required.
Ook in Miami in Verenigde Staten
Bron: weather.gov
The central coast takes the storms that cross from the Philippines, usually one or two that matter.
Ook in Hội An, Huế, Nha Trang in Vietnam
Bron: en.wikipedia.org
Bush flies arrive with the spring warmth and go for eyes and mouth all day until the first real heat kills them off.
Bron: en.wikipedia.org
Autumn is when a cut-off low over a warm Mediterranean can drop a season's rain on the coastal plain in hours.
Bron: aemet.es
Mediterranean downpours can drop months of rain in a few hours on the Vaucluse and Gard in autumn.
Bron: meteofrance.com
The upstream runoff peaks after the monsoon has moved on, and a high tide on top of it puts the riverside walkways and the low sois behind them under water for a few days at a time.
Bron: tmd.go.th
Warm sea and steep hills behind a narrow city produce autumn storms that drop a month of rain in hours.
The year's highest tides push the river back into District 7, Nha Be and Binh Chanh, usually around the new and full moons.
Bron: vietnamnet.vn
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