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…
Spring is when the year starts to move in earnest, and it is the season with the widest geography: Maastricht, Hong Kong, Cheltenham, Dubai, Geneva, Augusta, Milan, Venice…
The European summer is the part of the year the phrase "the season" still refers to without qualification. Between the opening of Cannes in the second week of May and the final of…
In July and August the international calendar leaves the cities for the coast. The fixed events are fewer than in June, and most of them are Italian: the Palio in Siena on July 2…
Autumn is the season of the cities and the harbors, and it is the busiest quarter of the year by number of fixed events. September opens with the Venice Film Festival, the US Open…
December is a short season with a clear shape. It opens in Miami, where Art Basel Miami Beach and Design Miami turn the first week of the month into the largest art week in the…
The Caribbean season is the dry season, and the calendar follows the boats. It opens in the first half of December with the Antigua Charter Yacht Show, when the fleet that spent…
The ski season is the international calendar's only season defined by a sport rather than by a place, and it has a fixed set of dates that has barely changed in decades. The…
The British season is the oldest continuous sequence on the international calendar and the one whose dates move least. It runs from the Badminton Horse Trials and the Chelsea…
The Riviera has two seasons a year and both are on the calendar. The first runs from the Cannes Film Festival in the second half of May through the Monaco Grand Prix in the first…
The American summer runs from the mountains to the shore and back. It opens in Aspen in the middle of June with the Food & Wine Classic and continues there with the Aspen Ideas…