Wat er in oktober wereldwijd speelt
In oktober spelen er 2280 seizoensgebeurtenissen in 1244 bestemmingen: 427 natuurspektakels, 1009 seizoenscondities, 339 festivals en culturele data, 194 massavakanties en 311 risicoseizoenen. De seizoenen die deze maand het meeste werk doen: Herfstkleuren, Wandelseizoen en Zee op temperatuur. Elke vermelding linkt naar de volledige klimaatuitsplitsing van die plek in oktober.
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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.
The herds arrive from July and the crossings run through to October, thickest in August and September.
The largest green turtle rookery in this half of the world, tens of thousands of females on a strip of black sand.
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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.
Ook in Akureyri, Vík í Mýrdal, Húsavík in IJsland
Bulls bugle on the golf course and the Bow River flats through the autumn and the town fences off the school field.
The Jordan Valley is the funnel for the eastern flyway, and on an autumn morning the thermals carry streams of honey buzzards and storks down the length of it.
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Coho salmon push up the Sol Duc River each fall and leap the falls at Salmon Cascades; a short, wheelchair-accessible viewing platform off Highway 101 makes it one of the park's easiest wildlife sightings.
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The botanic garden above the city puts on its wildflower month through September, which is also when the roadsides an hour out are worth the drive.
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The autumn colour works its way down from Lapland through September.
Bulls bugle on the lawns at Mammoth through September and rangers cone off the ones that will not move.
The world's largest tidal bore peaks around the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month, usually late September or early October.
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Bulls bugle in the Moraine Park and Horseshoe Park meadows at dawn and dusk through the autumn, and the traffic jams that follow are managed by rangers.
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A million bulbs planted in Commonwealth Park for a month from mid-September.
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Larch Valley above Moraine goes gold for about a fortnight in late September, and it is the busiest trail in the Rockies for exactly those days.
Ook in Banff in Canada
The aspens and cottonwoods turn in late September, which is also when the bull elk start bugling at dawn along the Gros Ventre.
The cottonwoods along the Snake and the aspen stands on the benches go gold in the second half of September, which is also when the bulls are bugling at dawn on the park flats.
Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October.
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The stands on Independence Pass and above Maroon Creek turn in the last week of September, and the Bells reservations for those days go the moment they open.
Ook in Rocky Mountain National Park, Vail, Park City en nog 4 in Verenigde Staten
Nine evenings when Telangana women build and float tiered flower stacks on the tanks and lakes, singing round them in a circle.
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The summit turns in the last days of September and the valleys a week or so behind.
Ook in Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Burlington en nog 3 in Verenigde Staten
The birch and poplar in the Almarasan and Butakovka gorges turn before the first snow reaches the tree line, and the Charyn day trip is at its best in the same fortnight.
Three days on Walker Bay, two hours east, built around whales that are close enough to watch from the cliff path.
Ook in Hermanus in Zuid-Afrika
Something like a quarter of a million raptors funnel over the peninsula each autumn.
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The native herd in the national park is the last wild one in Ireland, and through October the stags roar across Knockreer and the Muckross oakwoods.
The hardwood on the island's interior turns in the first half of October, the day-trip crowds are gone and the carriage roads are yours.
Ook in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Boston, New York en nog 16 in Verenigde Staten
The maples across the river turn about ten days before the city trees do, usually peaking in the first week of October.
Peak is usually the first week of October and the valley books out for it a year ahead.
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.
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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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The city is named for its apples and the local Aport comes off the orchards below the mountains through September, sold by the crate at the Green Bazaar before the imports take over again.
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Kakheti brings in the harvest over about six weeks and every family with vines feeds anyone who helps.
The herds come down off the high pastures through the side valleys in September, the lead cows in headdresses, and each village makes a morning of it with a market.
Ook in Kitzbühel, Zell am See in Oostenrijk
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The herds come down from the summer pastures wearing larch and rosette headdresses, through the villages rather than around them.
Ook in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Duitsland
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One crop a year on slopes this steep, so the gold is a fortnight and no more.
On a Sunday in the second half of October, shepherds walk well over a thousand merino sheep and goats from Casa de Campo up Calle Mayor to Sol and Cibeles, defending an old droving right through the city.
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The comu's flagship autumn fair fills Central Park for a long weekend with roughly 200 exhibitors, workshops and live music, the country's biggest showcase for local business outside ski season.
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Cliff Palace, Balcony House and Long House can only be entered on a ranger tour, and those run roughly May to October.
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The highest continuous paved road in the country is ploughed open around Memorial Day and closed by the first serious October storm.
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The steam service to Mallaig over the Glenfinnan viaduct runs a summer timetable only, roughly June to late October.
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The only road into Tusheti opens around mid-June once the snow is cleared and closes with the first heavy fall in October.
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Crews plough the alpine section for months and the full road usually opens between late June and early July, closing again with the first real snow in October.
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The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end.
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August to December is the full run through the gorge, starting at the first rapid below the falls.
Latvians take foraging seriously, and from late summer the pine forests around Riga fill with pickers.
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 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 cave entrance is barely a metre high at low tide, so a boatman can only lie you flat and row you through when the sea is calm enough; rough winter seas suspend the trips for days or weeks at a stretch even though the site itself has no fixed closing date.
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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 snow-free window on the standard route, when the walk up is a long slog rather than a mountaineering day.
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The Grand Cascade is started with a ceremony in the last days of April and shut down in the second week of October.
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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.
Ook in Belize City, San Pedro Town in Belize
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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 harvest opens with the Ban des Vendanges on the first Friday of September, when the wine brotherhood in medieval dress proclaims it in the village, 20 minutes north.
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Melons, figs, grapes, pomegranates, walnuts and persimmons pile up in the bazaar from early September, and the courtyard restaurants move their tables back outside once the worst of the heat has gone out of the evenings.
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Picking runs through September and into October in the villages either side of town, and the late-harvest grapes hang on longest.
Whitebaiting runs 1 September to 30 October, and every river mouth on the coast grows a line of stands and huts for two months.
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Emir and okuzgozu come in off the volcanic soil around Urgup and Uchisar, and the small cellars open their doors.
The orchards on the drive up from Srinagar through Baramulla district are picked through September and October, and roadside stalls sell apples by the crate; the meadows at Gulmarg are quiet between the summer rush and the snow.
Plavac mali comes off the south-facing terraces above Sveta Nedjelja in September, some of it from slopes too steep to work with anything but hands.
September and October are the ones to avoid for a beach week: the heaviest rain, the roughest sea, and the highest chance of a cancelled boat trip or a closed Sky Bridge in the cloud.
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Festivals & cultuur
De festivals waar een plek om bekendstaat, en de weken waarin de straten van hen zijn.
The night race closes half the centre for a week and puts hotel rates near Marina Bay at their yearly peak, whether or not you have a ticket.
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Sixteen days from the third Saturday of September.
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The one week of the year the city stops working and walks all night between commissioned pandals, some of them serious art.
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Nine days from the first Saturday of October, with hundreds of balloons going up in waves at dawn on the two weekends and the Wednesday.
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The largest performing arts festival in Latin America takes over the city's theatres, plazas and church steps for most of October, with a guest country each year.
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.
Ook in Oaxaca, Playa del Carmen, San Miguel de Allende in Mexico
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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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A free three-day rock festival in Parque Simon Bolivar, one of the largest of its kind in the world and run by the city's arts institute; normally a June weekend, though the 30th edition moves to October.
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Five nights spread over four weeks, two displays a night from a barge in front of Macau Tower, with teams competing.
Lanterns go up over Chinatown for weeks beforehand and the mooncake stalls take Smith Street; the street celebration itself lands on the weekend nearest the full moon, and it is shoulder to shoulder after dark.
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A month of flamenco across a dozen venues, held in even-numbered years, which is the one time the art is programmed for the city rather than for visitors.
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A month of nightly open-air Ramlila staged across Ramnagar on the far bank, unamplified and lit by lanterns, with the audience walking between locations.
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Fifteen days of offerings to the ancestors, ending in a three-day national holiday when the city empties for the pagodas back home.
Ook in Siem Reap, Battambang, Kampot en nog 1 in Cambodja
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Three weeks of Hokkaido food in Odori Park through September: the island's harvest, ramen by region, and the last comfortable evenings outdoors.
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Two and a half weeks of free Franconian music, food stalls and new wine on the Insel Schuett and Hans-Sachs-Platz, with the fishermen's joust on the Pegnitz as the old spectacle.
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Three weeks of shows at the arena at the end of September, part fashion and part theatre, and the busiest the city's hotels get all year.
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The national film festival belongs to Utrecht: ten days at the end of September ending in the Golden Calf awards, with free open-air screenings on the cathedral square.
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Karnataka's state festival runs ten days and the city empties down the Mysuru road for the palace lights and the Jamboo Savari elephants.
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Eleven days of Canadian premieres, international award winners and free outdoor screenings each fall, Alberta's largest film festival and an Oscar-qualifying showcase for short films.
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Twenty-four days at Fair Park from late September, the biggest state fair in the country by attendance and the one with the deep-fried everything.
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Port Hercule is closed off and filled bow-to-stern for four days in late September.
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A month-long horse show at the Expo Center that quietly fills every hotel room within thirty miles from late September.
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Nine days when Yaowarat turns yellow with flags and every other stall sells jay food — no meat, no dairy, no garlic or onion.
Ook in Changwat Phuket in Thailand
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The country's biggest brewing competition and its public tasting, held in Denver each autumn and moved outdoors to Levitt Pavilion for 2026.
The world's largest barbecue competition, six hundred teams deep, now on a new campus by the Speedway on the Kansas side.
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Nine nights of garba in the grounds and society compounds of the northern suburbs, which is where the Gujarati half of the city keeps its calendar.
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Ten nights with the palace lit end to end, closing with the Jamboo Savari — the goddess on a golden howdah, walked five kilometres to Bannimantap behind caparisoned elephants.
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Nine days when hundreds of stalls and coffee shops switch to vegetarian, temples run processions and the Kew Leong Tong shrine burns incense round the clock.
Ook in Ipoh in Maleisië
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Independent-publishing fair at Palazzo dei Congressi since 2003, with author meetings, translator seminars and a rotating guest-country programme.
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One October night when the palaces, ministries and museums open free until dawn and the whole city walks around inside them.
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Classic and modern yachts race in the gulf for nine days at the end of September, and the town gets a second, better-tempered high season out of it.
Scotland's biggest running weekend, usually the first in October: a 10K and a half marathon along the Clyde to Glasgow Green.
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The largest arts festival programme in the country: nine days of Afrikaans theatre, music and books through the town's halls and church venues.
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Two consecutive three-day weekends in Zilker Park in early October, with the same lineup twice.
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Egypt's oldest film festival for Mediterranean cinema screens for about a week at the Alexandria Library and other downtown venues, drawing regional filmmakers and a modest crowd of local cinephiles.
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The end of Buddhist Lent, marked with candles and paper lanterns on pagoda platforms for three nights.
Ook in Yangon, Hsipaw, Mandalay en nog 1 in Myanmar
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The whole of October is a fishing tournament, with boats weighing in at AJ's on the harbour every afternoon and a crowd watching for free.
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Feestdagen die een plek overspoelen
Massavakanties: volle treinen, gesloten winkels, de duurste twee weken van het jaar.
The public holiday falls on the full moon of the eighth lunar month.
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Nepal's biggest festival, and its longest public holiday: offices and many shops close for a week or more, and long-distance buses and domestic flights sell out as people travel home.
Ook in Kathmandu, Chitwan, Lumbini in Nepal
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Seven days off nationally from 1 October and the biggest travel surge of the Chinese year.
Ook in Chengguan, Peking, Chengdu en nog 24 in Volksrepubliek China
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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.
Ook in Penang in Maleisië
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Three nights of firecrackers in every layout, and the morning after is the worst air of the Bengaluru year.
Ook in Chennai in India
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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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Diwali is a public holiday and the biggest festival of the Hindu year: homes and markets are lit, fireworks go on for several nights, many shops close on the day itself, and Indians travel to family or on holiday, so trains, flights and hotels book up early.
Ook in Mysore, Rishikesh, Udaipur en nog 9 in India
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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.
Ook in Chitwan, Gorkha, Lumbini in Nepal
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For the week before 27 October, the feast of the city's patron saint, pilgrims from across Romania queue for hours on Patriarchal Hill to venerate his relics.
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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.
Ook in Zakopane, Lublin, Sopot en nog 2 in Polen
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Carols in the malls from the first of September and four months of it.
Ook in Cebu City, Davao City in Filipijnen
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Ships call from spring, but the leaf-season sailings down from the St Lawrence stack up in September and October and several thousand passengers can land on one morning.
Booths on every balcony, the priestly blessing at the Western Wall drawing tens of thousands, and a week of school holiday that fills every site in the country.
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The autumn school holiday, and the beach is still warm enough to use, so the city fills again for a week.
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Bengal's biggest holiday and the Nepali Dashain fall together, and the whole of Kolkata seems to come up the hill.
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The first week of October is the busiest of the Macau year.
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The regional holiday: the Senyera comes down from the town hall balcony at noon and is walked to the cathedral, a mascleta goes off at two, and a Moors and Christians parade takes Calle de la Paz in the late afternoon.
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Syysloma falls in the second half of October, between the walking season and reliable snow, and the resort runs a family programme through it.
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The old city sells little but crackers for a fortnight, and the monitors spike for two or three days either side of the night itself.
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A national public holiday here, with deyas along walls and driveways after dark.
Ook in Port of Spain in Trinidad en Tobago
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Heroes' Day on 20 October, a public holiday landing in the busiest safari month of the year.
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The city takes Halloween not far short of how it takes Carnival: a night parade with floats through the Marigny and the Quarter, and Frenchmen Street in costume for the weekend either side.
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The 1956 anniversary is a public holiday with ceremonies on Kossuth Square and closed offices, museums and most shops.
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The holiday starts at one o'clock on 28 October.
Ook in Ankara, Bursa in Turkije
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Families camp overnight in the cemeteries for All Saints' and All Souls', and the rest of the country goes home for it.
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The country travels home on 1 November and the cemeteries burn with candles after dark; Rakowicki is the one to walk.
Ook in Warschau, Łódź in Polen
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Ships tender into the harbour from May, and the heaviest calls land in September and October with the leaf cruises.
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Ships tie up a ten-minute walk from the Liston and the Spianada, so the old town runs on ship hours: heaving from ten to four, and the town's own again by early evening.
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Ships anchor a hundred metres from the town gate and unload into a walled town you can cross in six minutes.
Tenders land at Giardini Naxos and Messina and the coaches come up the hairpins together, so the Corso and the cable car are worst between eleven and four and quiet by six.
The clear autumn weeks are when everyone drives up before dawn for the Kanchenjunga sunrise, and cars queue nose to tail on the single hill road in the dark to reach the viewpoint for first light.
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Most Antarctic expeditions on Earth leave from this pier between late October and March, and the town runs on their turnaround days.
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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.
Ook in Amritsar in India
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Harris County runs one of the largest mosquito control operations in the country and still sprays by air after a wet week.
Ook in Everglades National Park, Congaree National Park in Verenigde Staten
Five months over forty degrees with nights that no longer drop below thirty in July.
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From May to October the Crossing is an alpine route: ice axe, crampons and the skills to use them, or a guide.
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The city posts warnings for toxic cyanobacteria on Lady Bird Lake through the warm months.
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Rip currents on this stretch of coast are the real risk, and the red flags go up for weeks at a time.
Rip currents along Ao Nang and Nopparat Thara are the genuine danger of the low season and the flags go up for weeks at a time.
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The southwest monsoon puts swell and rip currents onto Patong, Karon and Kata; lifeguards fly red flags for days at a time and most drownings happen in these months.
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The regional fire campaign runs all summer and the worst days are the ones when the maestrale is up.
Ook in Cagliari in Italië
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The regional advisory runs through winter and into spring.
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Aklan sits inside the storm track.
Ook in Coron Eiland, El Nido, Manilla en nog 8 in Filipijnen
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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.
Ook in Holbox, Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen en nog 2 in Mexico
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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.
Ook in Placencia, Belize City, San Pedro Town in Belize
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Officially June to November, with the risk concentrated between mid-August and early October.
Ook in Clearwater, Destin, Everglades National Park en nog 9 in Verenigde Staten
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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.
Ook in Bacalar, Mérida in Mexico
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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 management board suspends all sailings when a storm is signalled, and an overnight cruise can be cut to a day trip or cancelled outright with a few hours' notice.
Ook in Hanoi, Đà Nẵng, Hội An en nog 2 in Vietnam
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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.
Ook in Trinidad, Varadero, Cayo Coco in Cuba
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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.
Ook in Honolulu, Kauai, Lahaina en nog 3 in Verenigde Staten
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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.
Ook in Key West, Naples, Orlando en nog 7 in Verenigde Staten
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Heavy rainy-season downpours bring mudslides off the volcanoes around the lake, and the steep road down from Solola to Panajachel has been cut for weeks at a time.
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In dry years smoke from land clearing across the strait drifts over the northwest coast for days at a time, flattening the view from the cable car and pushing the air index into unhealthy numbers.
Ook in Ipoh, Johor Bahru in Maleisië
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The southwest monsoon puts water across España and the low parts of Manila several times a season, and the city calls off work and school when it does.
Andalusia's declared high-risk fire period.
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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.
Ook in Exuma in Bahama's
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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.
Ook in Santa Bárbara de Samaná, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo in Dominicaanse Republiek
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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.
Ook in Utila in Honduras
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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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