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Cologne Carnival
Feb 4-Feb 10 - confirmed
Rose Monday sends satirical floats down the route while Cologne sings, drinks Kölsch, and forgets to stop until Lent.
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Notable cultural timing - High confidence
Germany ranked Notable this window. 11 celebrations contribute to its cultural timing during February 2027.
Methodology: Top-5 cultural-timing scores averaged, with high-confidence celebration count and seasonal density as tiebreakers.
Feb 4-Feb 10 - confirmed
Rose Monday sends satirical floats down the route while Cologne sings, drinks Kölsch, and forgets to stop until Lent.
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Seafront bonfires and winter-night crowds gather in Husum for North Frisia's Biike fire.
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Haslach's children follow the costumed Storchenvater through town on February 22nd, the Stork Day a Black Forest spring welcome.
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At 19:11 on Fat Thursday Neuhausen's witches dance around the Schlossplatz bonfire, the Hexentanz opening Swabian carnival.
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Stockach puts a real politician on mock trial each carnival, the Narrengericht a centuries-old Alemannic tradition of satirical justice.
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