Qué hay en Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (16 Dic – 1 Ene)

Máxima afluencia — Lenten processions, Dry season

• Festival

  Lenten processions

  15 Feb – 27 Mar · normalmenteSemana Santa y PascuaMucha gente

  Each Sunday of Lent one of the churches walks its own procession, with a velacion in the days before it. Slower and far less crowded than Holy Week, and the town is still yours in the evening. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Lenten processions, Semana Santa

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  Semana Santa

  29 Mar – 5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Carpets of dyed sawdust are laid through the night and destroyed within minutes by the men carrying the andas over them. The centre closes to traffic, hotels are booked a year out, and Good Friday is when everything converges. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Lenten processions (15 Feb – 27 Mar (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa, Dry season

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Semana Santa (29 Mar – 5 Abr), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Tranquilo — uno de sus peores meses por clima

• Festival

  Corpus Christi carpets

  21 May – 27 Jun · normalmenteFiesta religiosa

  The Corpus Christi procession leaves the churches over streets laid with sawdust and flower carpets, the tradition Holy Week borrowed. Smaller and far less crowded than Semana Santa. Fuente ↗

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

En junio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Corpus Christi carpets (21 May – 27 Jun (normalmente))

Concurrido — Feast of Santiago, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Feast of Santiago

  1–25 Jul · normalmenteFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The city keeps its patron saint through July with processions, concerts and fireworks, building to 25 July, a local holiday when many offices shut. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Canícula, the midsummer dry spell

  1 Jul – 20 Ago · normalmenteTemporada seca

  A few weeks in the middle of the rainy season when the afternoon storms ease off and skies clear, usually from early July into August. Its length varies a lot from year to year. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Canícula, the midsummer dry spell (1 Jul – 20 Ago (normalmente))

Concurrido — Independence Day, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Independence Day

  14–15 SepFiesta nacionalMucha gente

  Torch relays run down the highway from the capital on the night of the 14th and school bands parade the next morning. Firecrackers from dawn, and most of the country is off work. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Festival

  Month of the Rosary

  1–31 Oct · normalmenteFiesta religiosa

  October belongs to the Virgin of the Rosary at Santo Domingo: dawn processions and bells open the month, and her image is carried through the streets on the first Sunday. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Dry season, Giant kites for All Saints

• Temporada

  Dry season

  1 Nov – 30 Abr · normalmenteMucha gente

  Mornings clear enough to watch Fuego smoke from the plaza, and cobbles dry enough to walk in anything. It is also the busiest half of the year, and the dust off the streets gets into everything.

• Festival

  Giant kites for All Saints

  1 NovFiesta nacionalMucha gente

  On 1 November the villages half an hour up the road, Sumpango and Santiago Sacatepequez, raise barriletes the height of a house over the cemetery while families eat fiambre among the graves. The buses out go early and full. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

• Festival

  Quema del Diablo

  7 DicLuces y fuego

  At six in the evening on 7 December households burn their rubbish and a paper devil in the street to clear the year out. The smoke settles into the valley and stays there most of the night. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Christmas and New Year

  16 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteReserva pronto

  Posadas move house to house from 16 December, and Christmas Eve ends in a wall of firecrackers at midnight rather than a quiet mass. Families come up from the capital and fill the hotels. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))