På gång i Biarritz, France under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i France, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar), Winter shutdown (1 nov – 15 mar)

Mycket folk — Winter (February) holidays i France, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar), Winter shutdown (1 nov – 15 mar)

Mycket folk — Winter (February) holidays i France, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Easter weekend

  4–6 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtStängningar

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and the long weekend is spring's first big getaway: motorways and TGVs fill, towns that draw holidaymakers get busy and some rooms are priced up, and many shops close on the Monday. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar), Winter shutdown (1 nov – 15 mar)

Mest folk — Easter weekend, Spring holidays i France

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Easter weekend (4–6 apr)

Mest folk — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helg

  May holidays and ponts

  1–25 majNationell helgdagTrångtBoka tidigtStängningar

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Wheels and Waves, Lifeguarded beach season

• Festival

  Wheels and Waves

  10–14 junMotorsportshelgTrångtBoka tidigt

  Custom motorcycles, a hill climb on the Basque coast and surfing, held on the Cite de l'Ocean plateau. The town fills a fortnight before the summer season proper starts, so rooms go early for it. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Lifeguarded beach season

  15 jun – 15 sep · vanligtvisSommarsäsongen öppnarTrångt

  The Grande Plage and Cote des Basques are only flagged and patrolled through the summer, and the beach clubs open with them. Outside that the water is unsupervised and the rip off the Grande Plage is the local hazard. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: May holidays and ponts (1–25 maj)

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Lifeguarded beach season

• Helg

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13–14 julNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lifeguarded beach season (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Lifeguarded beach season, Summer holidays i France

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Lifeguarded beach season (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Lifeguarded beach season, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Le Temps d'Aimer la Danse

  10–21 sepKulturfestival

  A fortnight of dance in the Gare du Midi and out on the beach and the squares, running as the summer crowd thins. Free outdoor pieces make it the easiest festival here to walk into. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Atlantic swell season

  15 sep – 31 marSurfsäsongRisk

  The long-period groundswell arrives with the autumn and the beach breaks turn serious; the Belharra reef off Saint-Jean-de-Luz only breaks on the biggest of them. Summer here is a learner's ocean, winter is not. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lifeguarded beach season (15 jun – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France

• Säsong

  Winter shutdown

  1 nov – 15 marStängt mellan säsongernaStängningar

  A chunk of the seafront restaurants and the surf schools close between the Toussaint holiday and the spring, and the town returns to its residents. The thalasso spas and the Basque bars stay open through it. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i France, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swell season (15 sep – 31 mar), Winter shutdown (1 nov – 15 mar)