På gång i Winnipeg, Canada under året

Mest folk — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Säsong

  Frozen river trail

  5 jan – 5 mar · vanligtvisIssäsong

  The Assiniboine and the Red are ploughed into a skating trail from The Forks, several kilometres long in a good freeze, with warming huts commissioned from architects each year. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Deep cold (15 dec – 20 feb (vanligtvis)), Christmas Day closures (24 dec – 1 jan)

Mycket folk — Festival du Voyageur

• Festival

  Festival du Voyageur

  12–24 feb · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  Ten days in the French quarter of St Boniface in the coldest part of February: snow sculpture, fiddle music in heated tents and a fur-trade past taken seriously. It is the largest winter festival in the west. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Frozen river trail (5 jan – 5 mar (vanligtvis)), Deep cold (15 dec – 20 feb (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — March break / semaine de relâche i Canada

Inget nytt börjar i mars.

Pågår fortfarande: Frozen river trail (5 jan – 5 mar (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

• Risk

  Red River flood season

  1 apr – 10 maj · vanligtvis

  Snowmelt on a flat, north-flowing river backs water up across the valley most springs, and the floodway around the city was dug for exactly this. The city itself rarely floods; the roads into it do. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Red River flood season (1 apr – 10 maj (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer break i Canada, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Risk

  Mosquito season

  10 jun – 10 aug · vanligtvisInsekter & sjukdomar

  A wet June turns the surrounding marsh into the worst mosquito ground in the country, and the city runs a fogging programme with published nightly zones. A dry June and you barely notice. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Canada Day, Winnipeg Folk Festival

• 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 ↗

• Festival

  Winnipeg Folk Festival

  8–14 jul · vanligtvisMusikfestivalTrångtBoka tidigt

  Five days of camping and stages in Birds Hill Park north of the city in early July, running since 1974 and still the reason people fly in during summer. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Mosquito season (10 jun – 10 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Folklorama, Summer break i Canada

• Festival

  Folklorama

  2–16 aug · vanligtvisStor festivalTrångt

  Two weeks of pavilions run by the city's own communities in halls all over town, each with its own food and dance show. It claims to be the largest festival of its kind anywhere. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Mosquito season (10 jun – 10 aug (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer break i Canada

• Natur

  Fall goose migration

  15 sep – 25 okt · vanligtvisFågelsäsong

  Hundreds of thousands of snow and Canada geese stop at Oak Hammock Marsh, half an hour north of the city, from late September into October. Go for sunset, when the flocks fly back in from the fields to roost. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Nuit Blanche Winnipeg

  26 sepKulturfestival

  One late-September night of free art installations and performances from dusk to midnight in the Exchange District, downtown and St Boniface, with free transit between them. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Pågår fortfarande: Fall goose migration (15 sep – 25 okt (vanligtvis)), Nuit Blanche Winnipeg (26 sep)

Mycket folk — Santa Claus Parade

• Festival

  Santa Claus Parade

  8–22 nov · vanligtvisJul & nyårTrångt

  Running since 1909, the city's oldest annual event: an evening parade down Portage Avenue on a mid-November Saturday, with block parties along the route. Dress for the cold. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Christmas Day closures, Winter / Christmas break i Canada

• Risk

  Deep cold

  15 dec – 20 feb · vanligtvisExtrem kyla

  Weeks at a time below minus twenty with a wind off the prairie behind it, which is why downtown is connected by tunnels and skywalks. Cars are plugged in overnight here as a matter of course. Källa ↗

• 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 ↗