Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Vancouver, Canada

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Christmas Day closures

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (meestal)), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (meestal))

Druk — March break / semaine de relâche in Canada

• Natuur

  Cherry blossom

  15 mrt – 20 apr · meestal

  Forty thousand trees, planted street by street, and one of the longest blossom runs of any city: earliest in Kitsilano, latest in the east.

• Festival

  Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

  27 mrt – 12 apr

  Three weeks of walks, picnics and a Japan fair at VanDusen built around the trees, and the reason the city treats blossom as a season rather than a week. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — tussen de pieken in

In april begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Cherry blossom (15 mrt – 20 apr (meestal)), Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (27 mrt – 12 apr), North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — tussen de pieken in

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival

• Festival

  Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival

  15–30 jun · meestalSportevenementDruk

  A late-June weekend of racing on False Creek, hundreds of crews in the heats and a festival site along the seawall. Free to watch, and the seawall path is busy with it all weekend. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, Canada Day

• Seizoen

  The dry season

  1 jul – 10 sep · meestal

  Ten weeks of reliably dry, warm weather is the whole summer here, and it is why the city empties onto the beaches and the North Shore trails.

• Opening

  Alpine trails clear

  1 jul – 5 okt · meestalWandelseizoen

  The high trails in Garibaldi and on the North Shore only lose their snow in late June or July; before that the lakes are frozen and the routes need axes. Bron ↗

• 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 ↗

• Risico

  Wildfire smoke risk

  15 jul – 15 sep · meestalRookseizoen

  Smoke from fires in the interior can settle over the city for days at a time in a bad year, turning the best-weather month into the worst air of the year. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — de drukste maand volgens de redactie, The PNE fair

• Festival

  The PNE fair

  15 aug – 8 sep · meestalGroot festivalDruk

  The old exhibition grounds run a two-and-a-half week fair to Labour Day, which is the end of the Vancouver summer in the same way school is. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: The dry season (1 jul – 10 sep (meestal)), Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (meestal)), Wildfire smoke risk (15 jul – 15 sep (meestal))

Druk — tussen de pieken in, The PNE fair

In september begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: The dry season (1 jul – 10 sep (meestal)), Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (meestal)), Wildfire smoke risk (15 jul – 15 sep (meestal)), The PNE fair (15 aug – 8 sep (meestal))

Druk — tussen de pieken in, Vancouver International Film Festival

• Natuur

  Salmon run

  1 okt – 10 nov · meestalDierenseizoen

  Spawning salmon come up the Capilano and the Adams River east of the city through October, strongest in the years the cycle peaks.

• Festival

  Vancouver International Film Festival

  1–11 oktDruk

  Eleven days of screenings downtown at the start of October, which is when the rain comes back and the city admits it is indoors again. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie

In november begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Salmon run (1 okt – 10 nov (meestal))

Rustig — de rustige maand volgens de redactie, Christmas Day closures

• Seizoen

  North Shore ski season

  5 dec – 5 apr · meestal

  Grouse, Cypress and Seymour are twenty to forty minutes from downtown and open when the freezing level drops, usually in December. Rain at the base is part of it.

• 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 ↗