På gång i Zakynthos (Zante), Greece under året

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Out of season (1 nov – 31 mar)

Lugnt — resenärer beskriver det som lugnt, Clean Monday

• Helg

  Clean Monday

  23 febKarnevalStängningarTrångt

  Clean Monday, the first day of Orthodox Lent and 48 days before Easter, is a public holiday. Offices and most shops close, families head outdoors to picnic and fly kites, and tavernas serve Lenten food such as seafood, bean dishes and flat lagana bread. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Out of season (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mycket folk — Independence Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Independence Day

  25 marNationell helgdagStängningar

  25 March, also the feast of the Annunciation, is a national holiday. Schoolchildren and bands parade through town centres under blue-and-white flags, banks, offices and most shops close, and fried salt cod with garlic sauce is the traditional lunch. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Clean Monday (23 feb), Out of season (1 nov – 31 mar)

Mest folk — Orthodox Easter, Easter holidays (Orthodox) i Greece

• Helg

  Orthodox Easter

  10–13 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångt

  Zakynthos keeps a Venetian-influenced Easter with brass bands behind the epitaphios, and the island opens for the season the same week the charter flights restart. Källa ↗

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

• Natur

  Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay

  1 maj – 31 oktSköldpaddornas äggläggning

  The bay holds one of the Mediterranean's most important loggerhead rookeries. Females come ashore from late May, the first hatchlings dig out in late July and it runs to October.

• Regel

  Marine park beach rules

  1 maj – 31 oktStängningar

  Through the nesting season the park's beaches are closed from dusk to dawn, umbrellas and watersports are banned on the protected sands, and you keep to the wet strip near the water. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Orthodox Easter (10–13 apr)

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 jun – 15 okt · vanligtvis

  Ionian water is warmer and calmer than the Aegean and the meltemi barely reaches here, so the west-coast sea caves and the blue caves are swimmable from June to mid-October.

Pågår fortfarande: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 maj – 31 okt), Marine park beach rules (1 maj – 31 okt)

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 maj – 31 okt), Marine park beach rules (1 maj – 31 okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 15 okt (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Greek August, Agios Dionysios

• Helg

  Greek August

  1–25 augSkollovTrångtBoka tidigt

  Domestic holidays and the 15 August feast on top of the charter season. Laganas and the boat trips to the shipwreck viewpoint are at their fullest, and the island's roads are narrow. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Agios Dionysios

  23–25 augReligiös högtidTrångt

  The island's patron is carried through Zakynthos town on 24 August with a fireworks finale over the harbour, repeated in a quieter form on 17 December. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 maj – 31 okt), Marine park beach rules (1 maj – 31 okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 15 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Greece, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 maj – 31 okt), Marine park beach rules (1 maj – 31 okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 15 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Ohi Day, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Ohi Day

  28 oktNationell helgdagStängningar

  28 October marks Greece's refusal of the 1940 Italian ultimatum. School and military parades fill town centres in the morning, flags hang from balconies, and banks, offices and many shops close for the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Loggerhead nesting in Laganas Bay (1 maj – 31 okt), Marine park beach rules (1 maj – 31 okt), Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 15 okt (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

• Stängt

  Out of season

  1 nov – 31 mar

  The charter flights and the resort strips stop entirely from November and this becomes a green, wet, farming island. Zakynthos town and the Kyllini ferry keep going all winter. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Christmas holidays i Greece, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Out of season (1 nov – 31 mar)