What's on in Huatulco, Mexico through the year

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in January.

Still on: Humpback whale season (1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually))

Busy — one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Humpback whale season (1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually))

Busy — Semana Santa, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

• Holiday

  Semana Santa

  28 Mar – 12 Apr · usuallyEaster & Holy WeekCrowdedBook early

  Huatulco is a domestic resort first, and Easter is when the rest of Oaxaca arrives. La Entrega and Santa Cruz fill from breakfast and the bay boats run all day. Source ↗

Still on: Humpback whale season (1 Dec – 31 Mar (usually))

Busy — Semana Santa

Nothing new starts in April.

Still on: Semana Santa (28 Mar – 12 Apr (usually))

Busy — Huatulco marlin tournament

• Festival

  Huatulco marlin tournament

  1–3 MayMajor festivalCrowded

  Three days out of Santa Cruz harbour at the start of May, run on catch-and-release for the billfish, and the one weekend of the year the marina is genuinely full. Source ↗

• Hazard

  Pacific hurricane season

  15 May – 30 Nov

  The eastern Pacific season opens a fortnight before the Atlantic one. Storms here usually track away from the coast, but the ones that don't come ashore fast on this stretch of Oaxaca, and September is the peak. Source ↗

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

Nothing new starts in June.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov)

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

• Nature

  Olive ridley nesting

  1 Jul – 15 Dec · usuallyTurtle nesting

  Olive ridleys nest along the beaches west of the bays through the wet half of the year, and the camps run hatchling releases at dusk from about September. The big arribadas happen further up the coast.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov)

Shoulder season — school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it, an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in August.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov), Olive ridley nesting (1 Jul – 15 Dec (usually))

Quiet — school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it, one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in September.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov), Olive ridley nesting (1 Jul – 15 Dec (usually))

Quiet — one of its worst months for weather

Nothing new starts in October.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov), Olive ridley nesting (1 Jul – 15 Dec (usually))

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in November.

Still on: Pacific hurricane season (15 May – 30 Nov), Olive ridley nesting (1 Jul – 15 Dec (usually))

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

• Nature

  Humpback whale season

  1 Dec – 31 Mar · usually

  Humpbacks come into the bays to calve from December and are usually gone by April. The boats out of Santa Cruz go looking most mornings; the water is calmest before ten.

Still on: Olive ridley nesting (1 Jul – 15 Dec (usually))