På gång i Chania (Crete), Greece under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Olive harvest (1 nov – 31 jan (vanligtvis)), Winter: the coast closes (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — Clean Monday, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Clean Monday

  23 febKarnevalStängningarTrångt

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Winter: the coast closes (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — Independence Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Natur

  Spring wildflowers and greens

  10 mar – 10 maj · vanligtvisVildblommor & blomning

  The hills behind the town go green and flowering for two months, and the horta the tavernas serve in spring is picked off them. It is the walking season the island does not advertise.

• Helg

  Independence Day

  25 marNationell helgdagStängningar

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Clean Monday (23 feb), Winter: the coast closes (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mest folk — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) i Greece

• Helg

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtStängningarBoka tidigt

  The biggest weekend of the Greek year: the villages fill with returning families, lamb goes on the spit on Sunday and shops shut for days around it. Domestic flights and ferries book out first. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Spring wildflowers and greens (10 mar – 10 maj (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Öppning

  Samaria Gorge open

  1 maj – 31 okt · vanligtvisLedsäsong

  The national park opens when the authority judges the riverbed safe, usually in the first half of May, and shuts around the end of October. Out of season you can only walk the last two kilometres from Agia Roumeli. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Spring wildflowers and greens (10 mar – 10 maj (vanligtvis)), Orthodox Easter (10–13 apr)

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 jun – 5 nov · vanligtvis

  Crete's water is usable a month either side of the Greek mainland's season, and the shallow lagoons at Balos and Elafonissi are warm well before the open coast.

Pågår fortfarande: Samaria Gorge open (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  The meltemi

  1 jul – 31 aug · vanligtvisVindsäsongRisk

  The northerly blows down the Aegean into high summer and this is the coast it hits. It cancels the Balos boats and closes the north-facing beaches on its worst days; the south coast stays calm.

Pågår fortfarande: Samaria Gorge open (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 5 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — August peak, Summer holidays i Greece

• Helg

  August peak

  1–31 augSkollovTrångtBoka tidigt

  Greeks take their own holiday in the same weeks as northern Europe, so the old harbour, the west coast beaches and the road to Elafonissi are all at capacity around 15 August. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Samaria Gorge open (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 5 nov (vanligtvis)), The meltemi (1 jul – 31 aug (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Samaria Gorge open (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 5 nov (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Ohi Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Ohi Day

  28 oktNationell helgdagStängningar

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Samaria Gorge open (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 5 nov (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Natur

  Olive harvest

  1 nov – 31 jan · vanligtvis

  Nets go down under the trees across the whole prefecture from November and the presses run through the winter. The new oil turns up in the markets green and cloudy.

• Säsong

  Winter: the coast closes

  1 nov – 31 marStängt mellan säsongernaStängningar

  Beach resorts, most charter flights and a good share of the harbour restaurants shut for the winter. Chania town itself keeps working, which is more than the villages around it do.

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 5 nov (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Olive harvest (1 nov – 31 jan (vanligtvis)), Winter: the coast closes (1 nov – 31 mar)