Qué hay en Cusco (Cuzco), Perú, a lo largo del año

Tranquilo — el mes tranquilo según el editor, Summer / year-end holidays en Perú

• Norma

  Machu Picchu circuits and time slots

  1 Ene – 31 DicReserva pronto

  Entry is a numbered circuit at a fixed hour, capped daily and sold online well ahead; Huayna Picchu and the mountain add-ons go first. There is no ticket office at the gate worth queueing at. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Andean rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer / year-end holidays en Perú, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Cierre

  Inca Trail closed

  1–28 Feb

  The Ministry of Culture shuts the whole route for February every year for maintenance of the steps, bridges and campsites. Machu Picchu itself stays open, and the Salkantay and Lares treks run. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — entre los picos, Señor de los Temblores

• Apertura

  Inca Trail reopens

  1 MarTemporada de senderos

  The trail opens again on 1 March, into the greenest and least crowded weeks of the year. The rain has not quite finished, which is the trade. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Señor de los Temblores

  16 Mar – 19 Abr · normalmenteSemana Santa y PascuaMucha gente

  On Holy Monday, the day that opens Holy Week, the blackened Christ is carried around the Plaza de Armas under showers of red ñucchu petals, the one procession in Cusco that is entirely for the city itself. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean rainy season (1 Dic – 31 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — entre los picos, Señor de los Temblores

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Señor de los Temblores (16 Mar – 19 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — entre los picos, Andean dry season

• Temporada

  Andean dry season

  1 May – 30 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de polvoMucha gente

  Bright still days, hard frost at night at 3,400 metres, and dust on the trails by August. It is the reliable half of the year and everybody knows it.

• Festival

  Qoyllur Rit'i

  30 May – 4 JunFiesta religiosa

  Tens of thousands walk up to a glacier sanctuary above 4,600 metres for three days and nights of dancing in the cold, in the week before Corpus Christi. A pilgrimage rather than a spectacle, and altitude no visitor should take lightly. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Corpus Christi

  3–11 JunFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Fifteen saints and virgins are carried in from the parish churches to the cathedral square and stay for a week, and the city eats chiriuchu on the steps. It opens Cusco's month of festivals. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic)

Máxima afluencia — el mes de más afluencia según el editor, Andean dry season

• Festival

  Inti Raymi

  24 JunGran festivalMucha genteReserva pronto

  The Inca festival of the sun re-enacted at Sacsayhuamán above the city on the winter solstice, in front of a paying grandstand and a hillside of everyone else. The city is full and priced for it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), Qoyllur Rit'i (30 May – 4 Jun), Corpus Christi (3–11 Jun)

Máxima afluencia — el mes de más afluencia según el editor, Andean dry season

• Norma

  Inca Trail permits sell out

  1 Jul – 31 AgoTemporada de senderosReserva pronto

  Only 500 people a day may start the trail, guides and porters included, and the June to August dates go five or six months ahead. Machu Picchu's own timed circuits sell out in the same window. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Fiestas Patrias

  25 Jul – 2 AgoFiesta nacionalMucha genteReserva pronto

  Peru's national holidays fall inside the driest, busiest weeks and put domestic travellers on top of the foreign ones. Lima-Cusco flights and Machu Picchu slots both go early. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — el mes de más afluencia según el editor, Andean dry season

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), Inca Trail permits sell out (1 Jul – 31 Ago), Fiestas Patrias (25 Jul – 2 Ago)

Concurrido — entre los picos, Andean dry season

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Andean dry season (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — entre los picos, October break en Perú

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic)

Tranquilo — el mes tranquilo según el editor

En noviembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic)

Máxima afluencia — el mes de más afluencia según el editor, Santurantikuy

• Temporada

  Andean rainy season

  1 Dic – 31 Mar · normalmenteMonzónRiesgo

  Heavy afternoon rain and low cloud over the ruins, with the mountains greener than at any other point and the trails close to empty. Landslides close the rail line to Machu Picchu occasionally, usually for a day or two.

• Festival

  Santurantikuy

  24 DicNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  On Christmas Eve the Plaza de Armas becomes a market of hand-carved nativity figures brought down from the villages, and it runs from dawn until the small hours. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Machu Picchu circuits and time slots (1 Ene – 31 Dic)