What's on in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico through the year

Busy — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4–23 JanMajor festivalCrowded

  Three weeks of Parachico dancers in carved wooden masks and blond headdresses processing between the churches of Chiapa de Corzo, an hour down the valley. UNESCO lists it, and it is still a village doing it for itself. Source ↗

Still on: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Apr)

Busy — one of its best months for weather

Nothing new starts in February.

Still on: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Apr)

Busy — Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz, school holidays in 2 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

  25 Mar – 30 Apr · usuallyMajor festivalCrowded

  The town's own fair, held the week after Holy Week: fairground on the edge of town, food stalls, dances and a bullring. Rooms are tight for a fortnight because Semana Santa runs straight into it. Source ↗

Still on: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Apr)

Busy — Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

Nothing new starts in April.

Still on: Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz (25 Mar – 30 Apr (usually)), Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Apr)

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

Nothing new starts in May.

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

Nothing new starts in June.

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

Nothing new starts in July.

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

Nothing new starts in August.

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

Nothing new starts in September.

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

• Festival

  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20 Oct – 5 Nov · usuallyMajor festival

  A week of music and theatre in the courtyards and churches of the centre at the end of October, mostly free and mostly indoors, which matters when the highland evenings are cold and damp. Source ↗

Shoulder season — an ordinary month

• Season

  Highland dry season

  1 Nov – 30 Apr

  The months the unpaved roads out to the Lagunas de Montebello and the Tzotzil villages are reliable and the afternoons stay clear. Nights at two thousand two hundred metres are cold enough for the wood smoke to hang in the streets.

Still on: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20 Oct – 5 Nov (usually))

Busy — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, school holidays in 3 of the markets that fill it

• Festival

  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1–12 DecMajor festivalCrowded

  Runners carrying torches come in from the highland villages for twelve days, and the barrio around the Guadalupe church stays up all night on the eleventh. Traffic in the centre stops for it. Source ↗

Still on: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Apr)