På gång i La Rochelle, France under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i France, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Atlantic storm season (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Winter (February) holidays i France, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Atlantic storm season (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Winter (February) holidays i France, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Easter weekend

  4–6 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtStängningar

  Easter Monday is a public holiday and the long weekend is spring's first big getaway: motorways and TGVs fill, towns that draw holidaymakers get busy and some rooms are priced up, and many shops close on the Monday. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Easter weekend

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Easter weekend (4–6 apr), Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — May holidays and ponts, Spring holidays i France

• Helg

  May holidays and ponts

  1–25 majNationell helgdagTrångtBoka tidigtStängningar

  1 May, 8 May, Ascension Thursday and Whit Monday are public holidays, and the French bridge the gaps with a day off, the pont. Expect four-day weekends of busy trains, jammed roads and full rooms in towns that draw visitors, and near-total closures on 1 May. Källa ↗

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

• Säsong

  Atlantic swimming season

  25 jun – 20 sep · vanligtvisHavet varmt nog

  The bay only really warms up from the end of June and cools quickly after the first September gales. Locals swim either side of that in a wetsuit and think nothing of it.

Pågår fortfarande: May holidays and ponts (1–25 maj)

Mest folk — Francofolies, The Ile de Re summer

• Festival

  Francofolies

  10–14 julMusikfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Five days of French-language music on stages around the old port in the middle of July, a hundred-odd acts, and the whole town given over to it. Rooms are gone months before the line-up is out. Källa ↗

• Helg

  The Ile de Re summer

  10 jul – 25 augSkollovTrångtBoka tidigt

  Half of Paris takes the island for the school holidays and everything crosses the same toll bridge. Go over early or late in the day, and do not expect to park in the old port at all. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Bastille Day (14 juillet)

  13–14 julNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  14 July is the national holiday: towns hold fireworks on the evening of the 13th or 14th, often with a firemen's ball, a parade or a concert, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swimming season (25 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — The Ile de Re summer, Summer holidays i France

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swimming season (25 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis)), The Ile de Re summer (10 jul – 25 aug)

Mycket folk — Grand Pavois boat show, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Oyster and mussel season

  1 sep – 30 apr · vanligtvisPlocksäsong

  Marennes-Oleron oysters and the bouchot mussels of the bay run through the cold half of the year, and the market on the Place du Marche is where to eat them standing up.

• Festival

  Grand Pavois boat show

  22–27 sepStor festivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Six days at the Port des Minimes with several hundred boats afloat and tens of thousands of visitors, which is why late September here is not the cheap shoulder it looks like. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Atlantic swimming season (25 jun – 20 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — All Saints (autumn) holidays i France

• Risk

  Atlantic storm season

  1 nov – 28 feb · vanligtvis

  Depressions come in off the Atlantic all winter, and on a high spring tide the sea gets over the sea wall on the Vieux Port. Meteo-France runs the coastal and wave warnings for the department. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i France, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Oyster and mussel season (1 sep – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Atlantic storm season (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis))