Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Halifax, Canada

Topdrukte — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Canada

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Winter storm season (1 dec – 31 mrt), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Rustig — een van de slechtste maanden qua weer

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Winter storm season (1 dec – 31 mrt)

Druk — March break / semaine de relâche in Canada

In maart begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Winter storm season (1 dec – 31 mrt)

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

• Festival

  Halifax Burger Bash

  1–30 apr · meestalEet- & drinkfestival

  For about ten days each April more than a hundred restaurants put a one-off burger on the menu, and the busier downtown kitchens queue at the door; part of each sale goes to Feed Nova Scotia. Bron ↗

Druk — Blue Nose Marathon

• Festival

  Blue Nose Marathon

  12–22 mei · meestalSportevenementDruk

  Atlantic Canada's biggest running weekend, usually in mid-May: the courses cross the Macdonald Bridge and loop through Point Pleasant Park, so expect closed streets and full hotels on race days. Bron ↗

Druk — Summer break in Canada, schoolvakanties in 2 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Festival

  Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo

  1–5 julMuziekfestivalDruk

  Massed pipes and drums, military bands and gun-run races indoors at the Scotiabank Centre over the Canada Day week. Two and a half hours, two thousand performers, and it has run since 1979. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo, Canada Day

• Feestdag

  Canada Day

  1 julNationale feestdagSluitingenDruk

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Bron ↗

• Festival

  TD Halifax Jazz Festival

  7–12 julMuziekfestivalDruk

  Six days on the waterfront in early July, the oldest jazz festival in Canada and the biggest summer event in Atlantic Canada. A good share of the programme on the boardwalk stages is free. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Halifax Busker Festival

  29 jul – 3 augKunstenfestivalDruk

  Street performers take over the Halifax and Dartmouth waterfronts for the last weekend of July, free to watch and run on hat money. It coincides with the warmest water and the fullest ferries of the year. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo (1–5 jul)

Topdrukte — Halifax Busker Festival, Summer break in Canada

• Risico

  Post-tropical storm season

  15 aug – 15 okt · meestalOrkaanseizoenSluitingen

  Atlantic storms that have run north up the seaboard arrive here as post-tropical systems in late summer and autumn. Juan, Dorian and Fiona all landed in this window and all took down trees and power for days. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Halifax Busker Festival (29 jul – 3 aug)

Topdrukte — Cruise season, Summer break in Canada

• Seizoen

  Cruise season

  1 sep – 31 oktDruk

  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. The waterfront and Peggy's Cove take the brunt.

Nog steeds bezig: Post-tropical storm season (15 aug – 15 okt (meestal))

Druk — Cruise season

• Natuur

  Fall colour

  1–28 okt · meestalHerfstkleuren

  Maples on the mainland turn through the first three weeks of October, and Point Pleasant Park and the Annapolis Valley drives are what people go for. The coast holds its colour a week later than inland Nova Scotia.

Nog steeds bezig: Post-tropical storm season (15 aug – 15 okt (meestal)), Cruise season (1 sep – 31 okt)

Topdrukte — Holiday Parade of Lights, Remembrance Day closures

• Festival

  Holiday Parade of Lights

  8–22 nov · meestalKerst & nieuwjaarDruk

  A lit-up evening parade through downtown on a Saturday in mid-November that opens the Christmas season; it has run for three decades and collects toys and food for local charities along Spring Garden Road. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Remembrance Day closures

  11 novNationale feestdagSluitingen

  Nova Scotia law shuts malls, big-box stores and most grocery stores for the whole day. Restaurants and hotels stay open, but no alcohol is sold and no shows start before noon. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break in Canada

• Risico

  Winter storm season

  1 dec – 31 mrtWinterstormen & zware windSluitingen

  Nor'easters come up the coast several times a winter with wind, wet snow and power cuts, and the airport is what fails first. Between them the harbour rarely freezes and the city keeps moving. Bron ↗

• Feestdag

  Christmas Day closures

  24 dec – 1 janKerst & nieuwjaarSluitingen

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Bron ↗