Qué hay en Málaga (Costa del Sol), España, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Calle Larios lights, Christmas holidays en España

En enero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Calle Larios lights (25 Nov – 6 Ene)

Concurrido — Carnaval de Malaga, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Carnaval de Malaga

  5 Feb – 10 Mar · normalmenteCarnavalMucha gente

  A week of satirical singing groups in the centre before Lent, ending with the burial of the anchovy on the beach at Malagueta. It is a local carnival rather than a tourist one. Fuente ↗

Máxima afluencia — Carnaval de Malaga, Festival de Malaga

• Riesgo

  Calima dust

  1 Mar – 31 Ago · normalmenteTemporada de polvo

  Saharan dust rides in on a southerly and turns the sky orange and the parked cars brown for a day or two at a time, most often in spring and again at the height of summer. The met agency warns for it. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Festival de Malaga

  5–25 Mar · normalmenteFestival de cineMucha gente

  The Spanish-language film festival takes over the Cervantes and the Albeniz for ten days in March, with a red carpet on Calle Larios and the city's hotels full of Madrid. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Semana Santa

  29 Mar – 5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  Malaga's processions are the heaviest in Spain — thrones carried by two hundred men, moving through the centre from afternoon into the small hours all week. Streets close on a published route and the city fills. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Carnaval de Malaga (5 Feb – 10 Mar (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa, Cruise calls at the port

• Temporada

  Cruise calls at the port

  1 Abr – 31 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de crucerosMucha gente

  The port takes several hundred calls a year and the passengers walk straight into the centre, so Calle Larios, the cathedral and the Alcazaba are thickest between ten and four on a two-ship day. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Calima dust (1 Mar – 31 Ago (normalmente)), Semana Santa (29 Mar – 5 Abr)

Concurrido — Cruise calls at the port, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Calima dust (1 Mar – 31 Ago (normalmente)), Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls at the port, Summer holidays en España

• Temporada

  Sea warm and espetos lit

  1 Jun – 15 Oct · normalmenteMar templado

  The chiringuitos run their sardine boats aground on the sand and grill on them from early summer to autumn. The Alboran is swimmable long before and after the school holidays.

• Temporada

  The terral

  15 Jun – 15 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de vientoRiesgo

  Instead of the sea breeze, a dry wind comes down off the mountains behind the city and sits for two or three days. It is what turns an ordinary Malaga summer week into an unbearable one.

• Riesgo

  Wildfire season

  15 Jun – 15 Oct · normalmenteTemporada de humo

  The Sierra de las Nieves and the hills behind the Costa burn in most bad summers, and a fire inland puts smoke over the coast and closes the mountain roads for a day or two. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Calima dust (1 Mar – 31 Ago (normalmente)), Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls at the port, Summer holidays en España

• Riesgo

  Jellyfish on the beaches

  1 Jul – 15 Sep · normalmenteInsectos y enfermedades

  Warm water and an easterly push mauve stingers onto the city beaches in some summers and the lifeguards fly the flag for a day or two. Which years are bad is not something anyone can tell you in advance. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Calima dust (1 Mar – 31 Ago (normalmente)), Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm and espetos lit (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), The terral (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls at the port, Feria de Malaga

• Festival

  Feria de Malaga

  15–22 AgoGran festivalMucha gente

  A week with two fairs: the day one in the historic centre, which is impassable from noon, and the night one out at Cortijo de Torres. Nobody in the city is working and few places are quiet. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Calima dust (1 Mar – 31 Ago (normalmente)), Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm and espetos lit (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), The terral (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Jellyfish on the beaches (1 Jul – 15 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cruise calls at the port, Summer holidays en España

• Riesgo

  Autumn storms and flash floods

  1 Sep – 30 Nov · normalmenteTemporada de inundaciones

  A cut-off low over a warm Mediterranean can drop a season's rain in a few hours, and the dry riverbeds inland are what carry it into the towns. One or two days a year, and they are severe ones. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm and espetos lit (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), The terral (15 Jun – 15 Sep (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Jellyfish on the beaches (1 Jul – 15 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — Cruise calls at the port, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En octubre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Cruise calls at the port (1 Abr – 31 Oct (normalmente)), Sea warm and espetos lit (1 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Wildfire season (15 Jun – 15 Oct (normalmente)), Autumn storms and flash floods (1 Sep – 30 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Calle Larios lights, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Calle Larios lights

  25 Nov – 6 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  The main street is roofed in lights that run to music several times an evening from late November, and the crowd for it comes from across Andalusia. Larios is closed to traffic for the show. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Autumn storms and flash floods (1 Sep – 30 Nov (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Calle Larios lights, Christmas holidays en España

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Calle Larios lights (25 Nov – 6 Ene)