Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Goa (Panaji), India

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Christmas and New Year peak

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal)), Christmas and New Year peak (18 dec – 5 jan)

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Goa Carnival

• Festival

  Goa Carnival

  14–17 febDruk

  King Momo opens four days of float parades that move city to city, starting in Panaji. A Portuguese inheritance and the biggest street event of the season, held just before Lent. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal))

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Shigmo

• Festival

  Shigmo

  1–20 mrt · meestalGroot festivalDruk

  Goa's spring festival: a fortnight of evening float parades and folk troupes that move town to town, Ponda to Pernem, run by the tourism department. Panaji, Mapusa and Margao draw the biggest nights. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Goa Carnival (14–17 feb), Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) in India

In april begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Summer vacation (north & east) in India

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal))

Topdrukte — reizigers noemen het hoogseizoen, Summer vacation (north & east) in India

• Regel

  Swimming banned on the beaches

  1 jun – 30 sep · meestalMuistromen & zware brandingSluitingen

  The state lifeguard service red-flags the entire coast for the monsoon and swimming is prohibited on most beaches. It is the rip currents that close them, not the rain. Bron ↗

• Festival

  São João

  24 junReligieus feest

  The feast of St John the Baptist, celebrated by jumping into wells and village ponds to thank the monsoon for arriving. It happens inland in Bardez and Siolim, not on the beaches. Bron ↗

Rustig — reizigers noemen het rustig, schoolvakanties in 5 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Natuur

  Waterfalls at full flow

  1 jul – 30 sep · meestalMoesson

  Dudhsagar and the Western Ghats streams run hard through the monsoon and the interior is the reason to be here at all in those months. Access roads and the rail-side walk are often closed.

Nog steeds bezig: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (meestal))

Rustig — schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen, een van de slechtste maanden qua weer

• Festival

  Bonderam

  22 augGroot festival

  The flag festival on Divar Island: a float parade and mock fights with toy slingshots, staged at the wettest point of the year and reached by a short car ferry from Old Goa. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi

  20 aug – 15 sep · meestalReligieus feestSluitingen

  The household festival Goans come home for: shops and offices shut, families keep the idol for one, five or eleven days, and the immersion processions fill the river ghats. Not staged for visitors at all. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (meestal)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 jul – 30 sep (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — tussen de pieken in, schoolvakanties in 3 van de markten die de plek vullen

In september begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (meestal)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 jul – 30 sep (meestal)), Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi (20 aug – 15 sep (meestal))

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali) in India

• Seizoen

  Beach shack season

  1 okt – 15 mei · meestalDroog seizoen

  The shacks are licensed and rebuilt from scratch every October and come down again before the rains. Between June and August there are no beach kitchens on the coast at all.

• Festival

  Narkasur night

  20 okt – 15 nov · meestalDiwali

  On the eve of Diwali neighbourhoods parade demon effigies built over weeks from bamboo and paper, judged for prizes and burned before dawn. Firecrackers run through the small hours in every town on the coast. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Festival

  Feast of St Francis Xavier

  24 nov – 3 decReligieus feestDruk

  A nine-day novena at Old Goa ending on 3 December, when pilgrims walk to the Bom Jesus basilica in tens of thousands and the lane of church ruins turns into a fairground. Buses to Old Goa run through the night. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal)), Narkasur night (20 okt – 15 nov (meestal))

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Feestdag

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 dec – 5 janKerst & nieuwjaarDrukBoek vroeg

  Goa's most expensive fortnight by a distance, with the Panaji and Old Goa churches full for midnight mass and the north-coast beaches full of everyone else. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 mei (meestal)), Feast of St Francis Xavier (24 nov – 3 dec)