På gång i Brasília, Brazil under året

Mest folk — Nosso Natal on the Esplanada, Summer holidays i Brazil

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Nosso Natal on the Esplanada (1 dec – 4 jan (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Carnaval street blocos, Summer holidays i Brazil

• Festival

  Carnaval street blocos

  14–17 febKarnevalTrångt

  No samba school parades here; the capital's carnival is street blocos such as Suvaco da Asa and Galinho de Brasília, playing frevo and marchinhas in the Plano Piloto. It is a more local affair than the big carnivals on the coast. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Via Sacra at Morro da Capelinha

  3 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångt

  On Good Friday a passion play with over a thousand volunteers is staged on a hill in Planaltina, about 40 km from the centre, drawing close to a hundred thousand people. Go early and expect slow roads back. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Carnaval street blocos (14–17 feb)

Mest folk — Via Sacra at Morro da Capelinha, Brasília's birthday

• Helg

  Brasília's birthday

  19–21 apr · vanligtvisNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  The city marks its 1960 inauguration on 21 April, a holiday shared with Tiradentes day. Free concerts fill the Esplanada dos Ministérios over the long weekend and the Brasília Marathon runs the same morning. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Via Sacra at Morro da Capelinha (3 apr)

Mycket folk — Festa do Divino in Planaltina

• Festival

  Festa do Divino in Planaltina

  5 maj – 15 jun · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  Pentecost festival in Planaltina, the old town that predates Brasilia, listed as DF heritage: rural and street folias ride with the banners and meet in the Encontro das Bandeiras, drawing crowds of well over a hundred thousand. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Festa do Divino in Planaltina, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Natur

  Ipê trees in flower

  20 jun – 20 sep · vanligtvisVildblommor & blomning

  The city's street trees flower in the middle of the dry months, yellow first and then pink and white, each colour holding for a week or so before the petals carpet the superquadra pavements.

Pågår fortfarande: Festa do Divino in Planaltina (5 maj – 15 jun (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — July winter break i Brazil, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Risk

  Dry season and burn-offs

  1 jul – 30 sep · vanligtvisRöksäsong

  By August the met service is issuing low-humidity warnings most days and grass fires round the Distrito Federal put a haze over the plateau. Nosebleeds, cracked lips and a bucket of water in the bedroom are all normal here. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Ipê trees in flower (20 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Ipê trees in flower (20 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis)), Dry season and burn-offs (1 jul – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Sete de Setembro, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Sete de Setembro

  7 sepNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  Independence Day is staged here rather than anywhere else: a military parade and a flypast down the monumental axis, the road shut around it, and the ministries closed for the long weekend either side. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Festival de Brasília

  11–19 sepFilmfestival

  The country's oldest film festival, run out of the Cine Brasília in Asa Sul since 1965 and still the place where an argument about Brazilian cinema is worth sitting through. Sessions are cheap and fill up. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Ipê trees in flower (20 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis)), Dry season and burn-offs (1 jul – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Mest folk — Nosso Natal on the Esplanada, Summer holidays i Brazil

• Festival

  Nosso Natal on the Esplanada

  1 dec – 4 jan · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångt

  The government Christmas village fills the lawns of the Esplanada dos Ministerios with a giant tree, lights, free shows and children's workshops each evening through early January. Källa ↗