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…
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…
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 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 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…