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Awinter festival,winter carnival,snow festival, orfrost fair is anoutdoor cold weather celebration that occurs in wintertime.

Winter festivals are popular inD climates (seeKöppen climate classification) where winter is particularly long or severe, such asSiberia,Scandinavia,Canada and the northernUnited States. Most winter carnivals involve traditional winter pursuits such asdog sledding,ice hockey,ice carving,skating,skiing, andsnow carving.

Some notable winter carnivals include:

World

• Winter Olympic Games

Argentina

• Snow Festival - held inBariloche

Canada

• Bon Soo Winter Carnival - held inSault Sainte Marie,Ontario
• Ice on Whyte Festival - held inEdmonton,Alberta
• Parc Jean Drapeau Winter Festival - held inMontreal,Quebec
• Quebec Winter Carnival - held inQuebec City,Quebec
• Snowking Winter Festival - held inYellowknife,Northwest Territories
• Winter Festival of Lights - held inNiagara Falls,Ontario
• Winterlude - held in theNational Capital Region along theOntario-Quebec border

Chile

• Fiesta de la Nieve - held inPuerto Williams

China

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

England

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

Estonia

• Tallinn Christmas Market - held inTallinn

Finland

• Lahti Ski Games

France

• Concours International de Sculpture sur Glace et sur Neige - held inValloire

Japan

• Asahikawa Winter Festival - held inAsahikawa,Hokkaidō
• Chitose Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival - held inChitose,Hokkaidō
• Iwate Snow Festival - held inIwate-gun,Iwate Prefecture
• Lake Shikaribetsu Kotan - held on top of frozen Lake Shikaribetsu inShikaoi,Hokkaidō
• Sapporo Snow Festival - held inSapporo,Hokkaido
• Tokamachi Snow Festival - held inTōkamachi,Niigata Prefecture

Latvia

• International Ice Sculpture Festival - held inJelgava

New Zealand

• Queenstown Winter Festival - held inQueenstown, New Zealand

Norway

• Holmenkollen Ski Festival - held inHolmenkollen,Oslo
• Ice Music Festival - held inGeilo

Russia

• International Festival-Competition of Snow and Ice Sculpture - held inKrasnoyarsk
• Perm International Snow and Ice Sculpture Festival - held inPerm

Sweden

• Gamla stan Christmas market - held inGamla stan inStockholm, Sweden
• Jul på Liseberg - held atLiseberg inGothenburg, Sweden
• Skansen Christmas market - held atSkansen inStockholm, Sweden
• Swedish Ski Games - held inFalun,Sweden

United States

• Annual frost faire atSaratoga National Historical Park - held inSaratoga County,New York
• Bavarian IceFest - held inLeavenworth,Washington
• Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships - held inBreckenridge,Colorado
• Dartmouth Winter Carnival - held inHanover,New Hampshire
• Michigan Technological University's Winter Carnival - held inHoughton,Michigan
• Saint Paul Winter Carnival - held inSaint Paul,Minnesota
• City of Lakes Loppet - held inMinneapolis,Minnesota
• Saranac Lake Winter Carnival - held inSaranac Lake,New York
• Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival - held inSteamboat Springs,Colorado
• Wintersköl™ - held inAspen,Colorado
• World Ice Art Championships - held inFairbanks,Alaska

• Christmas market
• List of Christmas markets
• List of ice and snow sculpture events
• Winter light festival

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

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