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Roof of the Grand Palais, interior, Paris Haute Couture Week

الموسم · يناير–فبراير

Winter Social Season

January and February: altitude in the Alps, sun in Palm Beach and the Gulf, and the first major of the tennis year

The winter season runs on altitude and latitude rather than on a single coast. In January the calendar splits three ways: the Alps for snow, Florida and the Gulf for sun, and Melbourne for the first tennis major of the year. The Alps come first. Davos opens the working year in the third week of January, Wengen and Kitzbühel run the two classic downhills on consecutive weekends, and St. Moritz stages polo on the frozen lake at the end of the month before White Turf takes over the same ice on the Sundays of February. The counter-season sits in Palm Beach, where the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington runs from early January to the end of March, and in Dubai, whose most comfortable weeks fall in exactly this stretch.

Fashion and film supply the second layer. Pitti Uomo in Florence and the men's shows in Milan and Paris open January; the couture shows follow in the last week of the month. Film runs from the Golden Globes in early January through Sundance, the Berlinale in February and the BAFTA ceremony, and the awards run keeps Los Angeles occupied until the Oscars in March. Frieze Los Angeles sits in the same stretch, which is why the city has a second art week to go with its film weeks.

01الوجهات

Badrutt's Palace Hotel, St. Moritz Switzerland St. Moritz The Engadine resort where Alpine winter tourism began in 1864, quiet outside two seasons. St. Niklaus Chapel, 59 Promenade, Gstaad, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, view from north Switzerland Gstaad A Bernese Oberland village built on skiing since the 1920s and music since 1957. Courchevel France Courchevel A purpose-built French resort of four villages, the best-known gate to the Three Valleys. Church of Our Lady, parish church St, Kitzbühel Austria Kitzbühel A medieval Tyrolean town known for the hardest downhill in ski racing each January. Klosters Parsenn, Klosters, Switzerland, Davos Switzerland Davos The Alpine town of 11,000 that hosts the World Economic Forum each January. The John Denver Sanctuary in Rio Grande Park, Aspen, Colorado United States Aspen A Colorado mining town, rebuilt after 1945 around skiing and ideas, busy in two seasons. Palm Beach Town Hall, looking N.W., from County Road, Palm Beach, Florida, USA United States Palm Beach An American winter resort island, in season from Thanksgiving to the U.S. Open Polo final. Taken at PortMiami United States Miami A subtropical port city, busiest for Art Week in December and the Grand Prix each May. Dubai Water Canal on the side of BusinessBay United Arab Emirates Dubai The Gulf's commercial and hospitality hub, busiest from November to April. Abu Dhabi's skyline in December 2014 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi The UAE capital: Formula 1's finale and a state-built museum island, each Gulf winter. Panorama of the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the national anthem prior to the AFL Grand Final on 30 September 2017 in Australia Melbourne Australia's sporting capital: a Grand Slam, a Grand Prix and a Cup carnival in one year. Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney Australia Sydney Australia's harbor city: a Boxing Day yacht race and one of the world's first New Year fireworks. Aerial photographs of Vienna Austria Vienna Austria's capital, its winter ball season concentrated around the February Opera Ball. Brandenburg gate in Berlin Germany Berlin Germany's capital, its February film festival and June finance week bracketing the year.

02آلية تحركه

January is the one month in which the season has no single center, so the useful way to read it is as two lines that run in parallel. The mountain line has a fixed order: the Lauberhorn at Wengen in mid-January, the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbühel the following weekend, Davos overlapping both, then the Snow Polo World Cup on the St. Moritz lake in the last days of the month and White Turf on the February Sundays that follow. The Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad fill the same weeks with chamber music in the village churches. Aspen's turn is the Winter X Games at the end of January, and Sundance falls in the same fortnight: its last Park City edition was in January 2026, and from 2027 it is held in Boulder, Colorado.

The warm-weather line is steadier. Palm Beach's equestrian season is a twelve-week fixture rather than an event; Cavallino Classic brings the Ferrari world to Florida in the second half of January; the Palm Beach Show fills the convention center in February; Miami adds its boat show in the middle of the month and the South Beach Wine & Food Festival a week later. Melbourne holds the second half of January with the Australian Open and hands the tennis year to Indian Wells in March.

By late February the calendar has tightened toward Europe again. The Vienna Opera Ball falls on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, the Venice Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday, and the BAFTAs and the Berlinale share the month's third weekend. The spring season begins, in practice, with Cheltenham and TEFAF in March.

03الفعاليات

  1. 18Jan
    DavosWorld Economic Forum Annual Meeting · 57th Annual Meeting مؤكَّد
  2. 17Jan
    MelbourneAustralian Open مؤكَّد
  3. 15Jan
    WengenLauberhorn Races · 97th International Lauberhorn Races مؤكَّد
  4. 18Jan
    KitzbühelHahnenkamm Races · 87th Hahnenkamm Races مؤكَّد
  5. 22Jan
    St. MoritzSnow Polo World Cup St. Moritz · 42nd Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz مؤكَّد
  6. 7Feb
    St. MoritzWhite Turf St. Moritz · First race day (120th White Turf) مؤكَّد
  7. 22Jan
    AspenWinter X Games Aspen · Winter X Games 31 متوقع
  8. 12Feb
    Palm Beach and Boca RatonCavallino Classic · 35th Palm Beach Cavallino Classic متوقع
  9. 6Jan
    WellingtonWinter Equestrian Festival · 2027 circuit مؤكَّد
  10. 21Jan
    BoulderSundance Film Festival · First Boulder edition مؤكَّد
  11. 18Jan
    Monte CarloRallye Monte-Carlo · 95th edition مؤكَّد
  12. 11Feb
    West Palm BeachThe Palm Beach Show · 24th annual مؤكَّد
  13. 28Jan
    DohaArt Basel Qatar مؤكَّد
  14. 18Feb
    Miami BeachFood Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival · 25th annual متوقع
  15. 4Feb
    ViennaVienna Opera Ball مؤكَّد
  16. 23Jan
    VeniceCarnival of Venice مؤكَّد
  17. 10Feb
    BerlinBerlin International Film Festival · 77th edition مؤكَّد
  18. 25Jan
    ParisParis Haute Couture Week · Spring/Summer 2027 مؤكَّد
  19. 12Jan
    FlorencePitti Immagine Uomo · Pitti Uomo 111 مؤكَّد
  20. 27Jan
    ParisRétromobile · 50th edition متوقع
  21. 10Feb
    New YorkNew York Fashion Week · Autumn/Winter 2027 متوقع
  22. 18Feb
    LondonLondon Fashion Week · Autumn/Winter 2027 متوقع
  23. 23Feb
    MilanMilan Fashion Week · Autumn/Winter 2027-2028 مؤكَّد
  24. 22Jan
    BrusselsBRAFA Art Fair مؤكَّد
  25. 3Mar
    MadridARCOmadrid · 46th edition مؤكَّد
  26. 10Jan
    Beverly HillsGolden Globe Awards · 84th Golden Globe Awards مؤكَّد
  27. 21Feb
    LondonBAFTA Film Awards · 80th British Academy Film Awards مؤكَّد
  28. 21Jan
    SingaporeART SG · 4th edition متوقع
  29. 14Jan
    ParisMaison&Objet Paris · January edition مؤكَّد
  30. 6Jan
    Las VegasCES مؤكَّد
  31. 3Feb
    Mexico CityZona Maco · 23rd edition مؤكَّد
  32. 15Jan
    MilanMilan Fashion Week Menswear · Autumn/Winter 2027-2028 مؤكَّد
  33. 7Feb
    rotatingSuper Bowl · Super Bowl LX متوقع
  34. 19Jan
    ParisParis Fashion Week Menswear · Autumn/Winter 2027-2028 مؤكَّد
  35. 8Jan
    Palm BeachInternational Red Cross Ball · 66th مؤكَّد
  36. 10Feb
    MiamiDiscover Boating Miami International Boat Show مؤكَّد
  37. 25Feb
    Los AngelesFrieze Los Angeles مؤكَّد
  38. 29Jan
    GstaadSommets Musicaux de Gstaad · 27th edition مؤكَّد
  39. 21Jan
    SingaporeSingapore Art Week مؤكَّد
  40. 7Feb
    CourchevelCourchevel International Fireworks Festival · 23rd edition متوقع
  41. 25Nov
    DubaiDubai International Boat Show · 32nd edition مؤكَّد
  42. 29Jan
    NaplesNaples Winter Wine Festival · 27th annual مؤكَّد
  43. 1Jan
    LVMH Watch Week · 8th edition التاريخ معلّق
  44. 15Feb
    ParisWine Paris مؤكَّد
  45. 26Dec
    CapriCapri, Hollywood International Film Festival النمط التاريخي
  46. 1Apr
    WellingtonU.S. Open Polo Championship متوقع
  47. 6Mar
    EngadinEngadin Skimarathon مؤكَّد

04الطقس

The Alpine resorts are in deep winter: short days, reliable snow at altitude, and temperatures well below freezing at night in the Engadin and the Tyrol. The lake at St. Moritz is only used for polo and racing once the ice has been measured, and in warm winters events have been shortened or moved, so check the organizer's notices in the week before. Palm Beach and Miami are in their dry season, with warm afternoons and cool evenings, and this is the reason the equestrian and boat-show calendars sit here. Dubai is mild and dry, and the Gulf's outdoor season is at its best. Melbourne is in high summer, and the Australian Open operates a published heat policy for a reason. Los Angeles is in its rainy months, which rarely matters for indoor ceremonies but can for outdoor Frieze weekends.

05ما التالي

March opens the spring season on three fronts: Cheltenham and TEFAF Maastricht in the second and third weeks, the Bal de la Rose in Monaco, the St. Barths Bucket in the Caribbean, and the Dubai World Cup on the last Saturday of the month. Racing then returns to the United States for the Masters in April, and Geneva's Watches and Wonders opens the watch year in the same weeks. The mountain line ends with the Engadin Skimarathon in mid-March and the Courchevel fireworks festival; after that the snow crowd is in Palm Beach for the end of the equestrian season or already in Monaco for the Masters.