What's on in Hermosillo, Mexico through the year

Peak crowds — Naranjeros baseball season, Winter season at Bahia de Kino

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Naranjeros baseball season (10 Oct – 31 Jan (usually)), Winter season at Bahia de Kino (1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually))

Peak crowds — Candelaria in Villa de Seris, Winter season at Bahia de Kino

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  Candelaria in Villa de Seris

  1–2 FebReligious feastCrowded

  The old southern barrio of Villa de Seris honours the Virgin of Candelaria with processions and masses, and a street fair where tamales are the point of going. Source ↗

Still on: Winter season at Bahia de Kino (1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually))

Busy — Winter season at Bahia de Kino, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

Nothing new starts in March.

Still on: Winter season at Bahia de Kino (1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually))

Busy — Expogan Sonora

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  Expogan Sonora

  20 Apr – 20 May · usuallyMajor festivalCrowded

  The northwest's biggest livestock fair runs for about four weeks from late April, with cattle shows, fairground rides, food stalls and big-name concerts in the palenque most nights. Source ↗

Peak crowds — Expogan Sonora, Fiestas del Pitic

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  Fiestas del Pitic

  21–24 MayMajor festivalCrowded

  Four days of free stages across the old centre marking the founding of the settlement in May 1700, with more than a thousand performers and a crowd in the hundreds of thousands. It lands just before the heat makes evenings outdoors hard work. Source ↗

Still on: Expogan Sonora (20 Apr – 20 May (usually))

Quiet — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

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  The summer heat

  1 Jun – 15 SepExtreme heat

  Sonora's capital sits in a desert basin and spends its summer indoors: business shifts early, the plazas are empty until dark, and anyone with the option leaves for Kino Bay or San Carlos at the weekend.

Quiet — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

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  Las aguas storms

  1 Jul – 15 Sep · usuallyMonsoonRisk

  The North American monsoon reaches Sonora in July and gives the city a couple of months of violent late-afternoon storms, often with a dust wall ahead of them. They pass in an hour and flood the underpasses while they last. Source ↗

Still on: The summer heat (1 Jun – 15 Sep)

Quiet — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: The summer heat (1 Jun – 15 Sep), Las aguas storms (1 Jul – 15 Sep (usually))

Shoulder season — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: The summer heat (1 Jun – 15 Sep), Las aguas storms (1 Jul – 15 Sep (usually))

Busy — Naranjeros baseball season

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  Naranjeros baseball season

  10 Oct – 31 Jan · usuallySporting eventCrowded

  The Naranjeros, the most successful club in the Mexican Pacific League, play winter ball at Estadio Fernando Valenzuela from mid-October, with playoffs in January. Major leaguers turn up on the rosters and home games are a night out. Source ↗

Peak crowds — Naranjeros baseball season, Winter season at Bahia de Kino

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  Winter season at Bahia de Kino

  1 Nov – 31 Mar · usuallyWinter-sun seasonCrowded

  Bahia de Kino on the Sea of Cortez, about an hour and a half west, fills with American and Canadian snowbirds in RVs through the winter; the seafood stands and RV parks are busiest from December. Source ↗

Still on: Naranjeros baseball season (10 Oct – 31 Jan (usually))

Peak crowds — Naranjeros baseball season, Winter season at Bahia de Kino

Nothing new starts in December.

Still on: Naranjeros baseball season (10 Oct – 31 Jan (usually)), Winter season at Bahia de Kino (1 Nov – 31 Mar (usually))