Qué hay en Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (18 Dic – 2 Ene)

Concurrido — Dry season

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

• Festival

  Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan

  29 Mar – 5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva pronto

  Santiago Atitlan brings Maximon out of the cofradia house and carries him through the town in Holy Week, alongside the Catholic processions. The lanchas across the lake run late and the villages fill before Panajachel does. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan (29 Mar – 5 Abr), Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Tranquilo — uno de sus peores meses por clima

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

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

• Riesgo

  Landslide season

  1 Jun – 31 Oct · normalmente

  Heavy rainy-season downpours bring mudslides off the volcanoes around the lake, and the steep road down from Solola to Panajachel has been cut for weeks at a time. Leave slack in travel days. Fuente ↗

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

• Festival

  Santiago Atitlan town fiesta

  19–27 Jul · normalmenteFiesta religiosa

  Santiago Atitlan celebrates its patron saint in the week around 25 July with processions, dances and a market, and fireworks each night that carry across the lake. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Feast of the Assumption at Solola, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Feast of the Assumption at Solola

  7–16 Ago · normalmenteFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The department capital on the ridge above Panajachel holds its fair for the Virgin of the Assumption in mid-August, ending with a dawn of fireworks and a procession on the 15th. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente))

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

• Festival

  Independence Day

  14–15 SepFiesta nacionalMucha gente

  Torch relays come round the lake road through the night of the 14th and every school in Solola parades the next morning. Firecrackers from before dawn and the boats keep their own hours. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

• Festival

  San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

  1–7 Oct · normalmenteFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Panajachel's patron saint fair in the first days of October brings school parades, the Dance of the Conquest, a funfair and fireworks, with 4 October as the main day. Rooms fill with visitors from nearby towns. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Dry season

• Festival

  Todos Santos

  1 NovFiesta religiosa

  Families spend 1 November in the cemeteries above the lake villages, repainting the graves and eating fiambre among them. The Solola market beforehand is at its busiest of the year. Fuente ↗

• Temporada

  Xocomil on the lake

  1 Nov – 30 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de vientoRiesgo

  The xocomil gets up over the water around midday and turns the crossings into a soaking. Boatmen do the long runs in the morning, and the last lanchas back leave earlier than visitors expect.

• Temporada

  Dry season

  1 Nov – 30 Abr · normalmenteMucha gente

  Clear mornings with all three volcanoes out, and dust on every road down to the water. The villages are busiest around Christmas and Holy Week; February is the quiet middle of it.

Máxima afluencia — Dry season, Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

• Festival

  Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

  13–21 DicFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  An hour and a half up from the lake, Chichicastenango spends the week to the 21st in masked dances, copal smoke on the church steps and the palo volador in the square. Day trips leave Panajachel early. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Christmas and New Year

  18 Dic – 2 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteReserva pronto

  The year-end fortnight is a peak for Guatemalan and foreign visitors alike: hotels fill and raise rates, shuttles book up, and fireworks go off at midnight on 24 and 31 December. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))