塞薩洛尼基（希臘）全年活動

人潮高峰 — Christmas and New Year、希臘的Christmas holidays

1月沒有新的活動開始。

仍在進行： The vardaris（11月15日–3月15日（通常））、Christmas and New Year（12月5日–1月6日）

人多 — Clean Monday、主要客源市場中有 3 個正逢學校假期

• 假期

  Clean Monday

  2月23日嘉年華有休業人潮多

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： The vardaris（11月15日–3月15日（通常））

人少 — 旅人形容這時很清靜、Independence Day

• 節慶

  Documentary Festival

  3月1–20日 · 通常影展

  Ten days of documentary screened in the converted warehouses on the port in early March, the city's other film festival and the one that fills its cafes with argument. 來源 ↗

• 假期

  Independence Day

  3月25日國定假日有休業

  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. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： Clean Monday（2月23日）、The vardaris（11月15日–3月15日（通常））

人潮高峰 — Orthodox Easter、希臘的Easter holidays (Orthodox)

• 假期

  Orthodox Easter

  4月10–13日復活節與聖週有休業

  The city empties towards the villages and Halkidiki for the week and much of the centre closes. The Friday epitaphios processions from the Byzantine churches are the thing to stay for. 來源 ↗

人多 — 主要客源市場中有 4 個正逢學校假期、是天氣最好的月份之一

5月沒有新的活動開始。

仍在進行： Orthodox Easter（4月10–13日）

人潮高峰 — Thessaloniki Pride、希臘的Summer holidays

• 節慶

  Thessaloniki Pride

  6月15–20日 · 通常人潮多

  A week of talks, film screenings and parties along the waterfront builds to a Saturday parade at the White Tower, the country's second-largest Pride after Athens. 來源 ↗

人多 — 希臘的Summer holidays、主要客源市場中有 7 個正逢學校假期

• 風險

  Heat over the gulf

  7月1日–8月25日極端高溫

  A closed gulf and a city of concrete make July and August heavy rather than merely hot, and the still nights are the hard part. The waterfront and Ano Poli are where any breeze is. 來源 ↗

人多 — 希臘的Summer holidays、主要客源市場中有 7 個正逢學校假期

• 季節

  The city leaves for Halkidiki

  8月1–25日學校假期有休業

  Thessalonikis have a coast an hour away and they use it. Half the good tavernas and bars shut for a fortnight around 15 August and the roads out on Friday afternoons are solid.

仍在進行： Heat over the gulf（7月1日–8月25日）

人潮高峰 — Thessaloniki International Fair、希臘的Summer holidays

• 節慶

  Thessaloniki International Fair

  9月5–13日會展週人潮多要早訂

  The country's biggest trade exhibition takes over the fairgrounds for over a week and has traditionally closed with the Prime Minister's economic policy speech; hotels fill and traffic around the site gets heavy even for visitors with no reason to attend. 來源 ↗

人潮高峰 — Thessaloniki Film Festival、Ohi Day

• 節慶

  Dimitria and the city's saint

  10月1–31日藝術節

  A month of concerts and theatre across the city, closing on the feast of Agios Dimitrios on 26 October. Two days later the Ochi Day military parade shuts the waterfront. 來源 ↗

• 節慶

  Thessaloniki Film Festival

  10月28日–11月15日 · 通常人潮多要早訂

  The biggest film festival in south-east Europe, ten days at the start of November in the port warehouses and the old cinemas on Aristotelous. Hotel rooms tighten around it. 來源 ↗

• 假期

  Ohi Day

  10月28日國定假日有休業

  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. 來源 ↗

人多 — Thessaloniki Film Festival、主要客源市場中有 2 個正逢學校假期

• 季節

  The vardaris

  11月15日–3月15日 · 通常風季有風險

  A cold north wind funnels down the Axios valley into the gulf in winter, clears the air and takes several degrees off whatever the thermometer says on the waterfront.

仍在進行： Thessaloniki Film Festival（10月28日–11月15日（通常））

人潮高峰 — Christmas and New Year、希臘的Christmas holidays

• 假期

  Christmas and New Year

  12月5日–1月6日耶誕與跨年人潮多

  Lights and a market along Aristotelous down to the sea, and a city that treats the holidays as an excuse to be out. Nearly everything closes on the 25th, 26th and 1st. 來源 ↗

仍在進行： The vardaris（11月15日–3月15日（通常））