O que acontece em Winnipeg, Canadá, ao longo do ano

Lotação máxima — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break em Canadá

• Temporada

  Frozen river trail

  5 Jan – 5 Mar · normalmenteTemporada do gelo

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Deep cold (15 Dez – 20 Fev (normalmente)), Christmas Day closures (24 Dez – 1 Jan)

Movimentado — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12–24 Fev · normalmenteGrande festivalLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Frozen river trail (5 Jan – 5 Mar (normalmente)), Deep cold (15 Dez – 20 Fev (normalmente))

Movimentado — March break / semaine de relâche em Canadá

Nada novo começa em março.

Ainda em andamento: Frozen river trail (5 Jan – 5 Mar (normalmente))

Meia-estação — um mês comum

• Risco

  Red River flood season

  1 Abr – 10 Mai · normalmente

  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. Fonte ↗

Meia-estação — um mês comum

Nada novo começa em maio.

Ainda em andamento: Red River flood season (1 Abr – 10 Mai (normalmente))

Movimentado — Summer break em Canadá, férias escolares em 2 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Risco

  Mosquito season

  10 Jun – 10 Ago · normalmenteInsetos e doenças

  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. Fonte ↗

Lotação máxima — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Feriado

  Canada Day

  1 JulFeriado nacionalFechamentosLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8–14 Jul · normalmenteFestival de músicaLotadoReserve cedo

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Mosquito season (10 Jun – 10 Ago (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Folklorama, Summer break em Canadá

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2–16 Ago · normalmenteGrande festivalLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Mosquito season (10 Jun – 10 Ago (normalmente))

Movimentado — Summer break em Canadá

• Natureza

  Fall goose migration

  15 Set – 25 Out · normalmenteTemporada de aves

  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. Fonte ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26 SetFestival de artes

  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. Fonte ↗

Meia-estação — um mês comum

Nada novo começa em outubro.

Ainda em andamento: Fall goose migration (15 Set – 25 Out (normalmente)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26 Set)

Movimentado — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8–22 Nov · normalmenteNatal e Ano-NovoLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Lotação máxima — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break em Canadá

• Risco

  Deep cold

  15 Dez – 20 Fev · normalmenteFrio extremo

  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. Fonte ↗

• Feriado

  Christmas Day closures

  24 Dez – 1 JanNatal e Ano-NovoFechamentos

  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. Fonte ↗