På gång i Vancouver, Canada under året

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Christmas Day closures

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (vanligtvis)), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — March break / semaine de relâche i Canada

• Natur

  Cherry blossom

  15 mar – 20 apr · vanligtvis

  Forty thousand trees, planted street by street, and one of the longest blossom runs of any city: earliest in Kitsilano, latest in the east.

• Festival

  Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

  27 mar – 12 apr

  Three weeks of walks, picnics and a Japan fair at VanDusen built around the trees, and the reason the city treats blossom as a season rather than a week. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Cherry blossom (15 mar – 20 apr (vanligtvis)), Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (27 mar – 12 apr), North Shore ski season (5 dec – 5 apr (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival

• Festival

  Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival

  15–30 jun · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångt

  A late-June weekend of racing on False Creek, hundreds of crews in the heats and a festival site along the seawall. Free to watch, and the seawall path is busy with it all weekend. Källa ↗

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Canada Day

• Säsong

  The dry season

  1 jul – 10 sep · vanligtvis

  Ten weeks of reliably dry, warm weather is the whole summer here, and it is why the city empties onto the beaches and the North Shore trails.

• Öppning

  Alpine trails clear

  1 jul – 5 okt · vanligtvisLedsäsong

  The high trails in Garibaldi and on the North Shore only lose their snow in late June or July; before that the lakes are frozen and the routes need axes. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Canada Day

  1 julNationell helgdagStängningarTrångt

  1 July is a statutory holiday across the country, moved to 2 July when it falls on a Sunday. Banks, government offices and many shops close, towns put on daytime concerts and parades with fireworks after dark, and hotels and ferries fill when it makes a long weekend. Källa ↗

• Risk

  Wildfire smoke risk

  15 jul – 15 sep · vanligtvisRöksäsong

  Smoke from fires in the interior can settle over the city for days at a time in a bad year, turning the best-weather month into the worst air of the year. Källa ↗

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, The PNE fair

• Festival

  The PNE fair

  15 aug – 8 sep · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  The old exhibition grounds run a two-and-a-half week fair to Labour Day, which is the end of the Vancouver summer in the same way school is. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: The dry season (1 jul – 10 sep (vanligtvis)), Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (vanligtvis)), Wildfire smoke risk (15 jul – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, The PNE fair

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: The dry season (1 jul – 10 sep (vanligtvis)), Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (vanligtvis)), Wildfire smoke risk (15 jul – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), The PNE fair (15 aug – 8 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, Vancouver International Film Festival

• Natur

  Salmon run

  1 okt – 10 nov · vanligtvisDjurlivssäsong

  Spawning salmon come up the Capilano and the Adams River east of the city through October, strongest in the years the cycle peaks.

• Festival

  Vancouver International Film Festival

  1–11 oktTrångt

  Eleven days of screenings downtown at the start of October, which is when the rain comes back and the city admits it is indoors again. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Alpine trails clear (1 jul – 5 okt (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad

Inget nytt börjar i november.

Pågår fortfarande: Salmon run (1 okt – 10 nov (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Christmas Day closures

• Säsong

  North Shore ski season

  5 dec – 5 apr · vanligtvis

  Grouse, Cypress and Seymour are twenty to forty minutes from downtown and open when the freezing level drops, usually in December. Rain at the base is part of it.

• Helg

  Christmas Day closures

  24 dec – 1 janJul & nyårStängningar

  Christmas Day is a statutory holiday nationwide: most shops, museums and many restaurants close and transit runs a holiday schedule. Boxing Day brings sales crowds to the malls where it is kept, and 1 January is another quiet, mostly closed day. Källa ↗