Qué hay en Georgetown, Guyana, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Christmas and Old Year's Night, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Christmas and Old Year's Night (15 Dic – 1 Ene (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Mashramani, Phagwah

• Festival

  Mashramani

  15–24 FebCarnavalMucha gente

  Republic Day on 23 February is kept as a costume-and-float parade with sound trucks working through the middle of the city. The word is Amerindian for a celebration after cooperative work, and it is the country's carnival. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Phagwah

  25 Feb – 25 Mar · normalmenteFiesta religiosaCierres

  Guyana's Holi is a public holiday and is played in the open, with abeer and powder in the streets and at the mandirs on the East Bank. Wear what you are prepared to throw away. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Phagwah, Easter kite flying

• Festival

  Easter kite flying

  20 Mar – 25 Abr · normalmenteSemana Santa y PascuaMucha gente

  Easter Monday in Guyana means kites. Families pack the seawall and the Botanical Gardens with picnics and homemade kites, and the sky over Georgetown fills by afternoon. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Phagwah (25 Feb – 25 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Easter kite flying

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Easter kite flying (20 Mar – 25 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — Guyana Carnival

• Riesgo

  Flooding in the city

  1 May – 31 Jul · normalmenteTemporada de inundaciones

  Georgetown lies below sea level and drains through canals and kokers that only open at low tide. Heavy rain at high tide floods streets in several neighbourhoods, sometimes for days. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Guyana Carnival

  18–27 May · normalmenteMucha genteReserva pronto

  A week of fetes and a road parade built around Independence Day on 26 May, the biggest party week of the year. Georgetown's limited hotel stock fills, so book ahead. Fuente ↗

Tranquilo — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus peores meses por clima

En junio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Flooding in the city (1 May – 31 Jul (normalmente))

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Flooding in the city (1 May – 31 Jul (normalmente))

Concurrido — Emancipation festival

• Festival

  Emancipation festival

  1 AgoGran festivalMucha gente

  The public holiday on 1 August centres on the African heritage festival in the National Park: drumming, dance, craft stalls and food villages, with concerts into the evening. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus mejores meses por clima

• Festival

  Amerindian Heritage Month

  1–30 SepGran festival

  September honours Guyana's nine Indigenous nations. It opens at the Umana Yana benab in Kingston with dance, cassava bread and craft stalls, and Georgetown hosts markets and exhibitions through the month. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Diwali motorcade

• Festivo

  Diwali motorcade

  10 Oct – 20 Nov · normalmenteCierres

  Diwali is a national holiday here, and the night before it a motorcade of lit floats runs the length of the city with houses along the route in diyas. Traffic on the sea wall road stops for hours. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Diwali motorcade

En noviembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Diwali motorcade (10 Oct – 20 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Christmas and Old Year's Night, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Christmas and Old Year's Night

  15 Dic – 1 Ene · normalmenteNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteCierres

  Stabroek Market and Regent Street are packed with shoppers in the run-up to Christmas; Boxing Day is also a holiday, and Old Year's Night ends with fireworks along the seawall. Fuente ↗