På gång i Pondicherry, India under året

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, Pongal

• Natur

  Olive ridley nesting

  1 jan – 31 mar · vanligtvisSköldpaddornas äggläggning

  Olive ridleys come ashore on the beaches north and south of town through the first months of the year. Volunteers walk the sand before dawn and move the clutches to fenced hatcheries. Källa ↗

• Festival

  International Yoga Festival

  4–7 janStor festivalBoka tidigt

  Four days of asana, philosophy and music on the seafront and at the Ashram grounds every January since 1992. It lands in the best weather of the year, and the French Quarter guesthouses go early for it. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Pongal

  14–17 janSkördStängningar

  The Tamil harvest festival is four days of closed shops, kolam on every doorstep and sugarcane stacked outside the temples. Buses to Chennai and Villupuram are packed either side of it. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Christmas to New Year rush (22 dec – 2 jan (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Masi Magam, Auroville anniversary

• Festival

  Masi Magam

  20 feb – 20 mar · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  Deities from temples across the district are carried down to the sea for a ritual bath on the Magam star of the Tamil month of Masi, and the beach road fills from before dawn. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Auroville anniversary

  27 feb – 1 marStor festivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Auroville marks its founding on 28 February with a dawn gathering at the amphitheatre and the urn. Guest houses out that way and in the French Quarter fill for the week around it. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Olive ridley nesting (1 jan – 31 mar (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Masi Magam, Auroville anniversary

Inget nytt börjar i mars.

Pågår fortfarande: Olive ridley nesting (1 jan – 31 mar (vanligtvis)), Masi Magam (20 feb – 20 mar (vanligtvis)), Auroville anniversary (27 feb – 1 mar)

Mycket folk — Summer vacation (Kerala / far south) i India, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Coastal summer

  1 apr – 15 jun · vanligtvisExtrem värme

  The hottest and stickiest stretch on this coast, with the sea breeze the only relief and afternoons written off. Prices drop accordingly and the promenade only works after six.

Mest folk — Villianur Temple Car Festival, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

• Festival

  Villianur Temple Car Festival

  15 maj – 5 jun · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  A ten-day car festival at the Thirukameswarar temple in Villianur, just outside the city; on the ninth day thousands pull a 15-metre wooden chariot through the streets. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Coastal summer (1 apr – 15 jun (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Villianur Temple Car Festival, Summer vacation (north & east) i India

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Pågår fortfarande: Coastal summer (1 apr – 15 jun (vanligtvis)), Villianur Temple Car Festival (15 maj – 5 jun (vanligtvis))

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

• Festival

  Bastille Day

  14 julNationell helgdag

  The French connection is still official here: veterans in kepis, a march past the war memorial on Goubert Avenue, and the tricolour flown alongside the Indian flag on 14 July. Källa ↗

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i september.

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

• Säsong

  Northeast monsoon

  15 okt – 31 dec · vanligtvisRisk

  This coast takes its rain when the rest of India has finished with it. Storms come off the Bay of Bengal in long spells, the promenade floods, and the sea wall gets its annual test.

• Risk

  Bay of Bengal cyclone season

  15 okt – 15 dec · vanligtvisStängningar

  The Coromandel coast is on the receiving end of the post-monsoon cyclone season, and a landfall anywhere near closes the beach road and the buses for a couple of days. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Diwali

  18 okt – 15 nov · vanligtvisTrångtStängningar

  Tamil Nadu keeps Diwali to a dawn start: oil bath, new clothes, and firecrackers from four in the morning. Shops shut for a day or two and Chennai empties onto this coast for the long weekend. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Diwali

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Northeast monsoon (15 okt – 31 dec (vanligtvis)), Bay of Bengal cyclone season (15 okt – 15 dec (vanligtvis)), Diwali (18 okt – 15 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Christmas to New Year rush, Winter break i India

• Helg

  Christmas to New Year rush

  22 dec – 2 jan · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångtBoka tidigt

  The week from Christmas to New Year is India's busiest holiday stretch: schools and many offices break, domestic travellers pour into hill stations, heritage towns and resorts, and hotels charge peak rates, often with a New Year's Eve dinner surcharge. Book early. Källa ↗

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