Wat er het hele jaar speelt in Yellowknife, Canada

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

In januari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal)), Deep winter cold (1 dec – 28 feb), Ice road season (20 dec – 31 mrt (meestal)), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In februari begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal)), Deep winter cold (1 dec – 28 feb), Ice road season (20 dec – 31 mrt (meestal))

Druk — March break / semaine de relâche in Canada

• Festival

  Snowking Winter Festival

  1–31 mrt · meestalIJsseizoen

  A snow castle carved on the frozen surface of Yellowknife Bay, with a concert hall, a slide and a month of gigs inside it before the whole thing melts. Volunteers start building it in January. Bron ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal)), Ice road season (20 dec – 31 mrt (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In april begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In mei begint er niets nieuws.

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

In juni begint er niets nieuws.

Topdrukte — Canada Day, Summer break in Canada

• Risico

  Wildfire smoke

  1 jul – 31 aug · meestalRookseizoen

  Boreal fire season can fill the city with smoke for weeks and has emptied it altogether — the whole population was evacuated in 2023. The one highway south is the only way out by road. 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 ↗

• Festival

  Folk on the Rocks

  10–22 jul · meestalMuziekfestivalBoek vroeg

  A long-running summer music festival on the beach at Long Lake, running under a sun that barely sets. Flights and rooms into Yellowknife that weekend go early. Bron ↗

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

• Natuur

  Aurora season

  15 aug – 10 apr · meestalBoek vroeg

  It splits in two: late August to September, when the lights reflect off open lake water and the nights are mild, and the long cold half from November. The city sits under the auroral oval, so clear nights deliver more often than not.

Nog steeds bezig: Wildfire smoke (1 jul – 31 aug (meestal))

Druk — Summer break in Canada

In september begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal))

Tussenseizoen — een gewone maand

In oktober begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal))

Rustig — een van de slechtste maanden qua weer

In november begint er niets nieuws.

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal))

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

• Risico

  Deep winter cold

  1 dec – 28 febExtreme kou

  Minus forty happens most winters and the aurora tours hand out full snowsuits because standing still outside for three hours at that temperature is not a thing you improvise. Vehicles stay plugged in. Bron ↗

• Opening

  Ice road season

  20 dec – 31 mrt · meestalIJsseizoen

  Once the bay freezes thick enough, a plowed road opens across it to Dettah and the winter roads north start carrying trucks. Load limits rise through January and the whole thing melts out by April. 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 ↗

Nog steeds bezig: Aurora season (15 aug – 10 apr (meestal))