Carnival day 2025: Colorful removals and foolish highlights in Austria!

Carnival day 2025: Colorful removals and foolish highlights in Austria!

Österreich - The carnival day on March 4, 2025 is just around the corner and marks the highlight of the colorful carnival season in Austria. This festive time, often referred to as the "fifth season", is very popular in many parts of the country, especially in the western federal states such as Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Salzburg. According to the current HV Consumer Check, more than half of the population in these regions visit a carnival event. Most of the celebrations revolve around creative costumes, exuberant celebrations and traditional customs, while in Vienna only around a third of the residents take part in the festivities, as reported on baupraxis.at

carnival time and their traditions

The carnival season begins on November 11th at 11:11 a.m., but the exuberant atmosphere only develops slowly before reaching its climax on Mardi Gras. This day, also known as Veilchendienstag or Carnival Tuesday, is a real festival of joie de vivre. For many, this day is a big celebration before Ash Wednesday that signals the beginning of Lent. The traditions are diverse and include mask balls and colorful moves in which participants breathe into the street festivals in imaginative costumes. The culinary delicacies, such as the popular carnival donuts, also play a central role in this time, such as krone.at reported.

The carnival officially ends with Ash Wednesday, this year on March 5, 2025, which for many is the end of the exuberant celebrations and the beginning of a time of abstinence. While the anticipation for the carnival day is increasing, people are already preparing for the celebrations and are looking forward to the festive moves and the cheerful hustle and bustle that this particularly colorful period of the year brings.