Qué hay en Iquique, Chile, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays en Chile

• Temporada

  Chilean summer season

  1 Ene – 28 FebVacaciones escolaresMucha gente

  Cavancha and Brava fill with Chilean and Bolivian families for the two months the schools are out, the seafront restaurants queue and the Zofri duty-free car park is full all day.

• Temporada

  Altiplanic winter inland

  1 Ene – 15 Mar · normalmenteRiesgo

  Summer storms over the altiplano send flash floods down the ravines inland, cutting the roads to Mamiña, Pica and the high parks. The coast stays dry, but check before any day trip up from town. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays en Chile

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Chilean summer season (1 Ene – 28 Feb), Altiplanic winter inland (1 Ene – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Chile, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festivo

  Semana Santa

  3–5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend. Offices close, long-distance buses and domestic flights fill, and hotels in coastal, lake and desert towns see one more busy weekend after the summer. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Altiplanic winter inland (1 Ene – 15 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Semana Santa

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Semana Santa (3–5 Abr)

Concurrido — Glorias Navales

• Temporada

  Camanchaca grey mornings

  15 May – 30 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de niebla

  In the southern winter the coastal fog bank, the camanchaca, sits over the city most mornings and only burns off around midday. Beach days start late and the promenade is quiet until the sun comes through.

• Festivo

  Glorias Navales

  21 MayFiesta nacionalMucha gente

  The city where Arturo Prat's Esmeralda went down in 1879 marks the anniversary with a parade at Plaza 21 de Mayo, a flotilla out to the Esmeralda buoy and a 21-gun salute at 12:10, the hour she sank. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Winter holidays en Chile

En junio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Fiesta de La Tirana, Winter holidays en Chile

• Festival

  Fiesta de La Tirana

  10–20 JulFiesta religiosaMucha genteReserva pronto

  A village 70 km inland takes a quarter of a million people and two hundred masked dance societies for the Virgen del Carmen on 16 July. Iquique is where they all sleep, so its beds go months ahead. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

• Festival

  San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

  1–11 Ago · normalmenteFiesta religiosaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Pilgrims from Chile, Peru and Bolivia pour into a desert village about a hundred kilometres inland for the miners' saint on 10 August, with dance societies playing through the night. Iquique is the base. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Fiestas Patrias, Fiestas Patrias recess en Chile

• Festivo

  Fiestas Patrias

  18–19 SepFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  Fondas go up behind the beach and the mining camps inland empty into town for two days of public holiday. Shops and offices shut and the road to the altiplano is busy both ways. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Concurrido — Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

  28–30 NovFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The oasis town of Pica, a day trip inland, honours its patron saint with the uncorking of the chicha on the 28th, a 5:30 am drum-and-dynamite wake-up on the 29th, candlelit processions and religious dance troupes. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Summer holidays en Chile, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.