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A winter festival, winter carnival, snow festival, or frost fair is an outdoor cold weather celebration that occurs in wintertime.

Winter festivals are popular in D climates (see Köppen climate classification) where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada and the northern United States. Most winter carnivals involve traditional winter pursuits such as dog sledding, ice hockey, ice carving, skating, skiing, and snow carving.

Some notable winter carnivals include:

World

Winter Olympic Games

Argentina

Snow Festival - held in Bariloche

Canada

Bon Soo Winter Carnival - held in Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
Ice on Whyte Festival - held in Edmonton, Alberta
Parc Jean Drapeau Winter Festival - held in Montreal, Quebec
Quebec Winter Carnival - held in Quebec City, Quebec
Snowking Winter Festival - held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Winter Festival of Lights - held in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Winterlude - held in the National Capital Region along the Ontario-Quebec border

Chile

Fiesta de la Nieve - held in Puerto Williams

China

Changbai Mountain International Winter Carnival - held in Erdaobaihe
Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - held in Harbin, Heilongjiang

England

River Thames frost fairs - formerly held in London, England between the 17th century and early 19th century

Estonia

Tallinn Christmas Market - held in Tallinn

France

Concours International de Sculpture sur Glace et sur Neige - held in Valloire

Japan

Asahikawa Winter Festival - held in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō
Chitose Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival - held in Chitose, Hokkaidō
Iwate Snow Festival - held in Iwate-gun, Iwate Prefecture
Lake Shikaribetsu Kotan - held on top of frozen Lake Shikaribetsu in Shikaoi, Hokkaidō
Sapporo Snow Festival - held in Sapporo, Hokkaido
Tokamachi Snow Festival - held in Tōkamachi, Niigata Prefecture

Latvia

International Ice Sculpture Festival - held in Jelgava

New Zealand

Queenstown Winter Festival - held in Queenstown, New Zealand

Norway

Holmenkollen Ski Festival - held in Holmenkollen, Oslo
Ice Music Festival - held in Geilo

Russia

International Festival-Competition of Snow and Ice Sculpture - held in Krasnoyarsk
Perm International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival - held in Perm

Sweden

Gamla stan Christmas market - held in Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden
Jul på Liseberg - held at Liseberg in Göteborg, Sweden
Skansen Christmas market - held at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Ski Games - held in Falun, Sweden

United States

Annual frost faire at Saratoga National Historical Park - held in Saratoga County, New York
Bavarian IceFest - held in Leavenworth, Washington
Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships - held in Breckenridge, Colorado
Dartmouth Winter Carnival - held in Hanover, New Hampshire
Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival - held in Houghton, Michigan
Saint Paul Winter Carnival - held in Saint Paul, Minnesota
City of Lakes Loppet - held in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saranac Lake Winter Carnival - held in Saranac Lake, New York
Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival - held in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Wintersköl™ - held in Aspen, Colorado
World Ice Art Championships - held in Fairbanks, Alaska

See also

References

Page, Stephen J. and Connell, Joanne (2020) Tourism: A Modern Synthesis Routledge ISBN 9781003005520 Page 577
Gifford, Erin (2019) 8 Exceptional Festivals to Escape to This Winter Afar magazine
Beam, Amy L. (1991) Beam's Directory of International Tourist Events Washington, DC: TTA Press ISSN 1052-3723 pg 387-388
(1984) The Official International Directory of Special Events & Festivals ISSN 0743-4170 pg 371

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