På gång i Lyon, France under året

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

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

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

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

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

• Festival

  Reflets du cinema iberique

  25 mar – 5 aprFilmfestival

  A week of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American cinema at Le Zola in Villeurbanne, a tram ride from central Lyon, running for over forty years, with screenings spilling out to other venues afterwards. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Quais du Polar

  3–5 aprKulturfestivalTrångt

  Europe's big crime-fiction festival takes over the Palais de la Bourse, the city hall and venues across the Presqu'ile for a weekend in early spring: author talks, signings and a city-wide detective game, mostly free. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Quais du Polar, Spring holidays i France

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Reflets du cinema iberique (25 mar – 5 apr), Quais du Polar (3–5 apr)

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 ↗

• Festival

  Nuits Sonores

  8–20 maj · vanligtvisMusikfestivalBoka tidigt

  Warehouses and docks along the Rhone host five nights of electronic acts each May, one of Europe's larger club-and-warehouse festivals and a reason hotels fill early. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Nuits de Fourviere

  28 maj – 25 jul · vanligtvisKulturfestivalBoka tidigt

  Two months of concerts, theatre and circus in the Roman theatres on the hill, from the end of May to late July. Take a cushion for the stone and something for the wind that comes up after dark. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Fete de la Musique, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Festival

  Fete de la Musique

  21 junMusikfestivalTrångt

  Every neighbourhood gets a stage for the summer solstice: free concerts across roughly 20 sites from the Presqu'ile to Villeurbanne, standing room only by evening. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: May holidays and ponts (1–25 maj), Nuits de Fourviere (28 maj – 25 jul (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Bastille Day (14 juillet), Summer holidays i France

• Risk

  Heatwave weeks

  1 jul – 20 aug · vanligtvisExtrem värme

  The city sits in a river corridor that traps the heat, and most summers bring a run of days when the Presqu'ile is unwalkable in the afternoon. Meteo-France runs the department warnings. 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: Nuits de Fourviere (28 maj – 25 jul (vanligtvis))

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

• Stängt

  The bouchons close

  1–25 aug · vanligtvis

  The old bouchons and most neighbourhood kitchens shut for two or three weeks in August, which in this city is the thing you came for. Check the door before you plan the evening around one. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Heatwave weeks (1 jul – 20 aug (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess bästa vädermånader

• Festival

  Lyon Biennale

  19 sep – 13 decKulturfestival

  Contemporary art and dance alternate years, so one of the two takes over disused factories and the theatres from mid-September to December. The dance edition opens with a costumed parade through the centre. Källa ↗

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

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Pågår fortfarande: Lyon Biennale (19 sep – 13 dec)

Mest folk — Christmas market, All Saints (autumn) holidays i France

• Festival

  Beaujolais nouveau

  15–21 nov · vanligtvisMat- & dryckesfestival

  This is the wine's own city and the third Thursday of November is taken seriously in the bouchons, which pour from midnight. The vineyards themselves start forty minutes north. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Christmas market

  21 nov – 24 dec · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångt

  Chalets fill the Place Carnot from late November to Christmas Eve, with a smaller craft market up on the Croix-Rousse. It is the warm-up act for the lights in December. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lyon Biennale (19 sep – 13 dec)

Mest folk — Christmas market, Fete des Lumieres

• Festival

  Fete des Lumieres

  5–8 decLjus & eldTrångtBoka tidigt

  Four nights of light installations around 8 December, free, and the busiest thing that happens here all year: a couple of million people on the same few bridges. Hotels reprice by the autumn. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Lyon Biennale (19 sep – 13 dec), Christmas market (21 nov – 24 dec (vanligtvis))