På gång i Chennai (Madras), India under året

Mest folk — Pongal, Margazhi music season

• Helg

  Pongal

  13–17 jan · vanligtvisSkördStängningar

  Four days of harvest holiday. The city empties towards the villages, offices and many restaurants shut, and every bus and train out is booked a fortnight ahead. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival

  1–3 febReligiös högtidTrångt

  Over three evenings in the Tamil month of Thai, around Thaipusam, the Mylapore temple's deities are rowed round the temple tank on a lit float; crowds line the tank steps and the streets around fill with stalls. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Margazhi music season (15 dec – 15 jan)

Mest folk — Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival, Maha Shivaratri

• Festival

  Maha Shivaratri

  10 feb – 12 mar · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  Shiva temples across the city, Kapaleeshwarar in Mylapore above all, stay open through the night with long queues for darshan and devotional music until dawn; traffic around the big temples slows to a crawl. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Kapaleeshwarar Teppam float festival (1–3 feb)

Mest folk — Maha Shivaratri, Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore

• Festival

  Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore

  10 mar – 15 apr · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  Ten days of processions round the Kapaleeshwarar temple tank in the Tamil month of Panguni, peaking with the chariot pull and the parade of the 63 Nayanmar saints. Mylapore's streets close to traffic for the big days. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Maha Shivaratri (10 feb – 12 mar (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore, Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) i India

• Regel

  East-coast fishing ban

  15 apr – 14 junPlocksäsong

  Mechanised boats stay in harbour at Kasimedu and along the Tamil Nadu coast for 61 days of the breeding season, so the catch shrinks and fish prices rise until the fleet goes out again in mid-June. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Panguni Peruvizha at Mylapore (10 mar – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer vacation (north & east) i India

• Risk

  Agni Natchathiram heat

  4–28 maj · vanligtvisExtrem värme

  The fortnight the Tamil almanac names as the hottest of the year, and the city agrees with it. Schools are out, work starts early, and nobody crosses the Marina sand between eleven and four. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: East-coast fishing ban (15 apr – 14 jun)

Mycket folk — Summer vacation (north & east) i India, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Pågår fortfarande: East-coast fishing ban (15 apr – 14 jun)

Mellansäsong — skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Aadi month at Amman temples

  17 jul – 16 aug · vanligtvisReligiös högtid

  Through the Tamil month of Aadi, goddess temples across the city hold Friday festivals and neighbourhoods cook and hand out koozh, a millet porridge offering. Aadi is thought unlucky for weddings, so the wedding halls go quiet. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Vinayaka Chaturthi, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Madras Week

  18–25 aug · vanligtvisStor festival

  The city marks its founding on 22 August with a week of heritage walks, talks, quizzes and food trails. A good excuse to see old George Town and Mylapore with people who know every lane. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Vinayaka Chaturthi

  20 aug – 25 sep · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  Ganesha idols go up in pandals across the city, and in the following days they are carried in processions down to the sea for immersion. Expect road diversions along the coast on the immersion days. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Aadi month at Amman temples (17 jul – 16 aug (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Vinayaka Chaturthi, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Vinayaka Chaturthi (20 aug – 25 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Deepavali, Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali) i India

• Risk

  Bay of Bengal cyclone season

  1 okt – 15 dec · vanligtvisStängningar

  A system or two a season comes close enough to shut the airport for a day and put the fishing fleet ashore. Warnings run several days out, so the cost is usually a lost day rather than a lost trip. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Northeast monsoon

  15 okt – 31 dec · vanligtvisRisk

  Most of Chennai's rain falls in these ten weeks, in long grey spells rather than afternoon storms, and the low parts of the city go under when a depression parks offshore.

• Helg

  Deepavali

  15 okt – 15 nov · vanligtvisDiwaliTrångt

  Tamil Nadu celebrates at dawn on the day before the new moon, with an oil bath, new clothes and firecrackers from before sunrise. T Nagar's shopping streets are packed for the fortnight before, and trains and buses out of the city sell out. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Deepavali

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Bay of Bengal cyclone season (1 okt – 15 dec (vanligtvis)), Northeast monsoon (15 okt – 31 dec (vanligtvis)), Deepavali (15 okt – 15 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Margazhi music season, Winter break i India

• Festival

  Margazhi music season

  15 dec – 15 janMusikfestivalTrångt

  A thousand-odd Carnatic concerts across the sabhas of Mylapore and T. Nagar, most of them free or a few hundred rupees, and canteens people turn up for on their own account. Stay near Luz Corner. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Bay of Bengal cyclone season (1 okt – 15 dec (vanligtvis)), Northeast monsoon (15 okt – 31 dec (vanligtvis))