På gång i Goa (Panaji), India under året

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Christmas and New Year peak

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis)), Christmas and New Year peak (18 dec – 5 jan)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Goa Carnival

• Festival

  Goa Carnival

  14–17 febTrångt

  King Momo opens four days of float parades that move city to city, starting in Panaji. A Portuguese inheritance and the biggest street event of the season, held just before Lent. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Shigmo

• Festival

  Shigmo

  1–20 mar · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  Goa's spring festival: a fortnight of evening float parades and folk troupes that move town to town, Ponda to Pernem, run by the tourism department. Panaji, Mapusa and Margao draw the biggest nights. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Goa Carnival (14–17 feb), Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) i India

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

• Regel

  Swimming banned on the beaches

  1 jun – 30 sep · vanligtvisUnderströmmar & hög sjöStängningar

  The state lifeguard service red-flags the entire coast for the monsoon and swimming is prohibited on most beaches. It is the rip currents that close them, not the rain. Källa ↗

• Festival

  São João

  24 junReligiös högtid

  The feast of St John the Baptist, celebrated by jumping into wells and village ponds to thank the monsoon for arriving. It happens inland in Bardez and Siolim, not on the beaches. Källa ↗

Lugnt — resenärer beskriver det som lugnt, skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Natur

  Waterfalls at full flow

  1 jul – 30 sep · vanligtvisMonsun

  Dudhsagar and the Western Ghats streams run hard through the monsoon and the interior is the reason to be here at all in those months. Access roads and the rail-side walk are often closed.

Pågår fortfarande: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

• Festival

  Bonderam

  22 augStor festival

  The flag festival on Divar Island: a float parade and mock fights with toy slingshots, staged at the wettest point of the year and reached by a short car ferry from Old Goa. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi

  20 aug – 15 sep · vanligtvisReligiös högtidStängningar

  The household festival Goans come home for: shops and offices shut, families keep the idol for one, five or eleven days, and the immersion processions fill the river ghats. Not staged for visitors at all. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 jul – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Swimming banned on the beaches (1 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Waterfalls at full flow (1 jul – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Chavath, Ganesh Chaturthi (20 aug – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Autumn break (Dussehra / Diwali) i India

• Säsong

  Beach shack season

  1 okt – 15 maj · vanligtvisTorrsäsong

  The shacks are licensed and rebuilt from scratch every October and come down again before the rains. Between June and August there are no beach kitchens on the coast at all.

• Festival

  Narkasur night

  20 okt – 15 nov · vanligtvisDiwali

  On the eve of Diwali neighbourhoods parade demon effigies built over weeks from bamboo and paper, judged for prizes and burned before dawn. Firecrackers run through the small hours in every town on the coast. Källa ↗

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Festival

  Feast of St Francis Xavier

  24 nov – 3 decReligiös högtidTrångt

  A nine-day novena at Old Goa ending on 3 December, when pilgrims walk to the Bom Jesus basilica in tens of thousands and the lane of church ruins turns into a fairground. Buses to Old Goa run through the night. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis)), Narkasur night (20 okt – 15 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Feast of St Francis Xavier

• Helg

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 dec – 5 janJul & nyårTrångtBoka tidigt

  Goa's most expensive fortnight by a distance, with the Panaji and Old Goa churches full for midnight mass and the north-coast beaches full of everyone else. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Beach shack season (1 okt – 15 maj (vanligtvis)), Feast of St Francis Xavier (24 nov – 3 dec)