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Europe / Greece

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Cultural timing in Greece - Mar 1-7, 2027

Notable cultural timing - Moderate confidence

Why Greece ranked Notable this window

Greece ranked Notable this window. 10 celebrations contribute to its cultural timing during Mar 1-7, 2027.

Methodology: Top-5 cultural-timing scores averaged, with high-confidence celebration count and seasonal density as tiebreakers.

Jan 17-Mar 14 - confirmed

Patras builds floats and dances for weeks before the grand parade, Greece's biggest Carnival finally cutting loose.

Feb 21-Mar 14 - estimated

Corfu's Venetian-inflected Carnival rolls satirical floats through the old town, the Ionian island laughing before Lent.

Feb 21-Mar 15 - estimated

Zakynthos parades its Venetian masks and stages a mock wedding at Piccadilly Square, the Ionian Carnival theatrical and old.

Feb 18-Mar 15 - estimated

Xanthi runs its carnival for weeks — floats, masquerades, and dance competitions building to a Thracian crescendo that only Lent can stop.

Feb 27-Mar 15 - estimated

Sochos's Koudounoforoi fill the village streets with deafening goatskin bells and Dionysian fertility rites before Lent.