På gång i Innsbruck, Austria under året

Mest folk — Four Hills ski jumping, Christmas markets

• Festival

  Four Hills ski jumping

  2–5 jan · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångtBoka tidigt

  The Bergisel leg of the Four Hills tournament lands in the first days of January, inside the city rather than out in a resort. Beds go early and the trains from Munich are standing room. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Tyrolean Fasnacht

  20 jan – 25 feb · vanligtvisKarneval

  The weeks before Lent, when the valley villages bring out masked runs with bells and switches and the city holds its own parade on the Tuesday. Several of the big village processions only happen every few years. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Christmas markets (15 nov – 6 jan (vanligtvis)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Semester (winter) holidays i Austria

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Tyrolean Fasnacht (20 jan – 25 feb (vanligtvis)), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Easter holidays i Austria, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Easter

  4–6 aprTrångtStängningar

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and shops stay closed on Easter Sunday too, so it is a long weekend. Austrians and neighbouring Germans travel, filling hotels at higher rates, and many shops close on both days. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Easter, Easter holidays i Austria

• Stängt

  Between-seasons shutdown

  20 apr – 25 maj · vanligtvis

  Between the last ski day and the first walking one the lifts stop, the huts are shut and a good share of the hotels close for maintenance. The same gap happens again in November. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Easter (4–6 apr), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Avalanche season (1 dec – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Ski season (5 dec – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Pentecost (Whitsun) holidays i Austria, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Between-seasons shutdown (20 apr – 25 maj (vanligtvis)), Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis))

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

• Öppning

  Alpine huts open

  20 jun – 30 sep · vanligtvisLedsäsongBoka tidigt

  Staffed Alpine Club huts run from about the summer solstice to late September, which is the window for anything multi-day above the treeline. Beds are reserved, not turned up for. Källa ↗

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

• Festival

  Festival of Early Music

  24 jul – 30 aug · vanligtvisMusikfestival

  Five weeks of baroque opera and concerts in the Hofburg's Giant Hall and the courtyard at Ambras, running since the 1970s. The one thing that fills the city's beds in summer for a reason other than the mountains. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

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

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Festival of Early Music (24 jul – 30 aug (vanligtvis))

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

• Festival

  Almabtrieb cattle drives

  10 sep – 10 okt · vanligtvisSkörd

  The herds come down off the high pastures through the side valleys in September, the lead cows in headdresses, and each village makes a morning of it with a market. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Alpine huts open (20 jun – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Autumn holidays i Austria, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Foehn wind

  1 okt – 31 maj · vanligtvisVindsäsongRisk

  The valley is the textbook case: a dry downslope wind that arrives warm, strips the snow off the lower slopes in a day and turns the approach into the airport into the roughest in the Alps.

• Öppning

  Stubai glacier opens

  5 okt – 30 nov · vanligtvisSkidsäsong

  The glacier above the Stubai valley starts turning lifts in October, months before anything in the valleys, and it is the only skiing within reach of the city until December. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Almabtrieb cattle drives (10 sep – 10 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas markets, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Christmas markets

  15 nov – 6 jan · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångt

  Six markets, the oldest of them squeezed under the Golden Roof in the medieval lanes and the largest out on the Marktplatz. Most run to Epiphany rather than stopping at Christmas. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Krampus and St Nicholas runs

  28 nov – 8 dec · vanligtvisJul & nyår

  In the first week of December masked Krampus groups run the streets of the villages around the city with cowbells and birch switches, ahead of St Nicholas on the sixth. Loud, physical, and not aimed at small children. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Stubai glacier opens (5 okt – 30 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Christmas markets, Christmas holidays i Austria

• Risk

  Avalanche season

  1 dec – 30 apr · vanligtvisStängningar

  The Tyrol bulletin runs daily all winter and a big dump shuts the side-valley roads and sometimes the Brenner for hours. Off-piste here is avalanche terrain from the top station down, not a slope apart from it. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Ski season

  5 dec – 15 apr · vanligtvisBoka tidigt

  Nine areas on one pass and a cable car from the middle of town up to the Nordkette, so the skiing starts at the end of a tram line rather than a transfer. The valley resorts open in December.

Pågår fortfarande: Foehn wind (1 okt – 31 maj (vanligtvis)), Christmas markets (15 nov – 6 jan (vanligtvis)), Krampus and St Nicholas runs (28 nov – 8 dec (vanligtvis))