Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Winnipeg, Canada

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

• Seizoen

  Frozen river trail

  5 jan – 5 mrt · meestalIJsseizoen

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Deep cold (15 dec – 20 feb (meestal)), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Druk — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12–24 feb · meestalGroot festivalDruk

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Frozen river trail (5 jan – 5 mrt (meestal)), Deep cold (15 dec – 20 feb (meestal))

Druk — March break / semaine de relâche in Canada

In maart begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Frozen river trail (5 jan – 5 mrt (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

• Risico

  Red River flood season

  1 apr – 10 mei · meestal

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Bron ↗

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Red River flood season (1 apr – 10 mei (meestal))

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

• Risico

  Mosquito season

  10 jun – 10 aug · meestalInsecten & ziekten

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Bron ↗

Topdrukte — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• 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

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8–14 jul · meestalMuziekfestivalDrukBoek vroeg

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Mosquito season (10 jun – 10 aug (meestal))

Topdrukte — Folklorama, Summer break in Canada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2–16 aug · meestalGroot festivalDruk

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Mosquito season (10 jun – 10 aug (meestal))

Druk — Summer break in Canada

• Natuur

  Fall goose migration

  15 sep – 25 okt · meestalVogelseizoen

  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. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Bron ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26 sepKunstenfestival

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Bron ↗

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In oktober begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Fall goose migration (15 sep – 25 okt (meestal)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26 sep)

Druk — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8–22 nov · meestalKerst & nieuwjaarDruk

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Bron ↗

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

• Risico

  Deep cold

  15 dec – 20 feb · meestalExtreme kou

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. 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 ↗