Albufeira (Algarve), Portekiz: yıl boyunca neler var

Çok kalabalık — Christmas and New Year, Portekiz genelinde Christmas holidays

• Doğa

  Almond blossom in the barrocal

  15 Oca – 25 Şub · geneldeKır çiçekleri ve çiçeklenme

  The almond groves in the hills behind the coast flower before anything else opens, which is the one argument for a hire car here in winter.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Low season on the Strip (1 Kas – 15 Mar), Christmas and New Year (24 Ara – 1 Oca)

Kalabalık — Portekiz genelinde Carnival holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Carnival

  14–17 Şub

  Four days of parades across the council, and the one in the village of Paderne is the older and better of them. It is the only time the off-season town fills up. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Almond blossom in the barrocal (15 Oca – 25 Şub (genelde)), Low season on the Strip (1 Kas – 15 Mar)

Çok kalabalık — Easter week, Portekiz genelinde Easter holidays

• Tatil

  Easter week

  29 Mar – 5 NisPaskalya ve Kutsal HaftaKalabalıkKapanışlar

  Good Friday is a national holiday and Easter Sunday a day for family lunches. Many Portuguese take the week around it off, so hotels fill and rates rise for the first busy spell of the year, and some shops and museums close on Friday and Sunday. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Carnival (14–17 Şub), Low season on the Strip (1 Kas – 15 Mar)

Çok kalabalık — Easter week, Portekiz genelinde Easter holidays

Nisan ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Easter week (29 Mar – 5 Nis)

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Mayıs ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Kalabalık — Portekiz genelinde Summer holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili

• Risk

  Wildfire season inland

  15 Haz – 30 Eyl · geneldeDuman sezonu

  The coast itself rarely burns, but the Monchique and Caldeirao hills behind it do, and a bad week puts smoke over the beaches and closes the back roads. Kaynak ↗

• Sezon

  Sea warm enough to swim

  25 Haz – 15 Eki · genelde

  This stretch of Algarve coast faces south and is sheltered from the Atlantic swell, so it holds its warmth weeks longer than the west-facing beaches around Sagres.

Çok kalabalık — British and Irish school holidays, Portekiz genelinde Summer holidays

• Tatil

  British and Irish school holidays

  1 Tem – 31 AğuKalabalıkErken rezervasyon

  The town runs on the northern European school calendar rather than the Portuguese one, so the fortnight either side of the end of July is the hardest to book and the dearest to fly into. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Wildfire season inland (15 Haz – 30 Eyl (genelde)), Sea warm enough to swim (25 Haz – 15 Eki (genelde))

Çok kalabalık — British and Irish school holidays, Festa do Frango (Chicken Festival)

• Festival

  Festa do Frango (Chicken Festival)

  1–10 Ağu · geneldeYeme içme festivaliKalabalık

  The inland parish of Guia, nicknamed the Algarve's chicken capital, spends a long weekend grilling piri-piri chicken at communal tables, a genuinely local food tradition rather than a beach-strip event. Kaynak ↗

• Festival

  Dia do Municipio

  20 AğuBüyük festivalKalabalık

  The town's charter day on 20 August, closed by a concert and fireworks over Praia dos Pescadores, at the exact peak of the season. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Wildfire season inland (15 Haz – 30 Eyl (genelde)), Sea warm enough to swim (25 Haz – 15 Eki (genelde)), British and Irish school holidays (1 Tem – 31 Ağu)

Kalabalık — Portekiz genelinde Summer holidays, burayı dolduran pazarların 3 tanesinde okul tatili

• Festival

  Festas do Pescador

  1–10 Eyl · geneldeBüyük festival

  The fishermen's feast in the first week of September, with tasquinhas on the old beach and the boats brought in to Praia dos Pescadores. The crowds have thinned by then. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Wildfire season inland (15 Haz – 30 Eyl (genelde)), Sea warm enough to swim (25 Haz – 15 Eki (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 4 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

Ekim ayında yeni bir şey başlamıyor.

Hâlâ sürüyor: Sea warm enough to swim (25 Haz – 15 Eki (genelde))

Ara sezon — burayı dolduran pazarların 2 tanesinde okul tatili, sıradan bir ay

• Sezon

  Low season on the Strip

  1 Kas – 15 MarSezon dışı kapanışKapanışlar

  Most of the bars and a good share of the hotels in Areias de Sao Joao shut from November, and flights drop to a handful a week. What stays open is the old town.

Çok kalabalık — Christmas and New Year, Portekiz genelinde Christmas holidays

• Tatil

  Christmas and New Year

  24 Ara – 1 OcaNoel ve yılbaşıKapanışlar

  Christmas is kept at home: from the afternoon of 24 December through the 25th most restaurants, shops and museums close, and 1 January is just as quiet. Restaurants that do open on New Year's Eve usually sell set dinners that book up ahead. Kaynak ↗

Hâlâ sürüyor: Low season on the Strip (1 Kas – 15 Mar)