Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Innsbruck, Oostenrijk

Topdrukte — Four Hills ski jumping, Christmas markets

• Festival

  Four Hills ski jumping

  2–5 jan · meestalSportevenementDrukBoek vroeg

  The Bergisel leg of the Four Hills tournament lands in the first days of January, inside the city rather than out in a resort. Beds go early and the trains from Munich are standing room. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Tyrolean Fasnacht

  20 jan – 25 feb · meestalCarnaval

  The weeks before Lent, when the valley villages bring out masked runs with bells and switches and the city holds its own parade on the Tuesday. Several of the big village processions only happen every few years. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Christmas markets (15 nov – 6 jan (meestal)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Topdrukte — reizigers noemen het hoogseizoen, Semester (winter) holidays in Oostenrijk

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Tyrolean Fasnacht (20 jan – 25 feb (meestal)), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — Easter holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Feestdag

  Easter

  4–6 aprDrukSluitingen

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and shops stay closed on Easter Sunday too, so it is a long weekend. Austrians and neighbouring Germans travel, filling hotels at higher rates, and many shops close on both days. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Topdrukte — Easter, Easter holidays in Oostenrijk

• Sluiting

  Between-seasons shutdown

  20 apr – 25 mei · meestal

  Between the last ski day and the first walking one the lifts stop, the huts are shut and a good share of the hotels close for maintenance. The same gap happens again in November. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Easter (4–6 apr), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (meestal)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (meestal))

Druk — Pentecost (Whitsun) holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Between-seasons shutdown (20 apr – 25 mei (meestal)), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen, een gewone maand

• Opening

  Alpine huts open

  20 jun – 30 sep · meestalWandelseizoenBoek vroeg

  Staffed Alpine Club huts run from about the summer solstice to late September, which is the window for anything multi-day above the treeline. Beds are reserved, not turned up for. Bron ↗

Druk — Summer holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 7 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Festival

  Festival of Early Music

  24 jul – 30 aug · meestalMuziekfestival

  Five weeks of baroque opera and concerts in the Hofburg's Giant Hall and the courtyard at Ambras, running since the 1970s. The one thing that fills the city's beds in summer for a reason other than the mountains. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (meestal))

Druk — Summer holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 7 van de markten die de plek vullen

In augustus begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (meestal)), Festival of Early Music (24 jul – 30 aug (meestal))

Druk — Summer holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 3 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Festival

  Almabtrieb cattle drives

  10 sep – 10 okt · meestalOogsttijd

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (meestal))

Druk — Autumn holidays in Oostenrijk, schoolvakanties in 4 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Seizoen

  Foehn wind

  1 okt – 31 mei · meestalWindseizoenRisico

  The valley is the textbook case: a dry downslope wind that arrives warm, strips the snow off the lower slopes in a day and turns the approach into the airport into the roughest in the Alps.

• Opening

  Stubai glacier opens

  5 okt – 30 nov · meestalSkiseizoen

  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. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Almabtrieb cattle drives (10 sep – 10 okt (meestal))

Druk — Christmas markets, schoolvakanties in 2 van de markten die de plek vullen

• Festival

  Christmas markets

  15 nov – 6 jan · meestalKerst & nieuwjaarDruk

  Six markets, the oldest of them squeezed under the Golden Roof in the medieval lanes and the largest out on the Marktplatz. Most run to Epiphany rather than stopping at Christmas. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Krampus and St Nicholas runs

  28 nov – 8 dec · meestalKerst & nieuwjaar

  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. Loud, physical, and not aimed at small children. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Stubai glacier opens (5 okt – 30 nov (meestal))

Topdrukte — Christmas markets, Christmas holidays in Oostenrijk

• Risico

  Avalanche season

  1 dec – 30 apr · meestalSluitingen

  The Tyrol bulletin runs daily all winter and a big dump shuts the side-valley roads and sometimes the Brenner for hours. Off-piste here is avalanche terrain from the top station down, not a slope apart from it. Bron ↗

• Seizoen

  Ski season

  5 dec – 15 apr · meestalBoek vroeg

  Nine areas on one pass and a cable car from the middle of town up to the Nordkette, so the skiing starts at the end of a tram line rather than a transfer. The valley resorts open in December.

Nog steeds bezig: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 mei (meestal)), Christmas markets (15 nov – 6 jan (meestal)), Krampus and St Nicholas runs (28 nov – 8 dec (meestal))