Qué hay en Phoenix, Estados Unidos, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Barrett-Jackson collector car week, Christmas and New Year

• Festival

  Barrett-Jackson collector car week

  17–26 Ene · normalmenteGran festivalMucha genteReserva pronto

  A week of collector-car auctions at WestWorld in Scottsdale in late January, drawing a crowd in the hundreds of thousands. Scottsdale rooms are priced accordingly. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (24 Dic – 1 Ene), Fiesta Bowl week (26 Dic – 2 Ene (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — WM Phoenix Open, Cactus League spring training

• Festival

  WM Phoenix Open

  4–16 Feb · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha genteReserva pronto

  The loudest week in golf, at TPC Scottsdale in the second week of February, with crowds over half a million across the tournament. Scottsdale hotel rates roughly treble. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Cactus League spring training

  19 Feb – 25 Mar · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha genteReserva pronto

  Fifteen major league clubs play a month of exhibition baseball at ten small parks around the valley, all within an hour of each other. It fills every hotel in Mesa and Scottsdale. Fuente ↗

• Naturaleza

  Desert wildflowers

  20 Feb – 10 Abr · normalmenteFlores silvestres

  Poppies and lupine on the slopes north and east of the city in March, and the saguaro flower at the end of April. How much of it there is depends entirely on the winter rain.

Sigue en marcha: Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Cactus League spring training, Spring break en Estados Unidos

En marzo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Cactus League spring training (19 Feb – 25 Mar (normalmente)), Desert wildflowers (20 Feb – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Desert wildflowers (20 Feb – 10 Abr (normalmente)), Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Riesgo

  Extreme heat

  1 May – 5 Oct · normalmente

  Five months over forty degrees with nights that no longer drop below thirty in July. The city is genuinely dangerous outdoors in the afternoon, and it is getting longer every decade. Fuente ↗

• Norma

  Heat-day trail closures

  1 May – 30 Sep · normalmenteCierres

  On excessive heat warning days the city shuts the Camelback, Piestewa and South Mountain trails from eleven to five and fines people who go anyway. Expect several dozen such days a summer. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Summer break en Estados Unidos, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  North American monsoon

  15 Jun – 30 SepRiesgo

  Storms build over the mountains most afternoons from mid-June and break over the valley with an hour of wind and rain. It takes the edge off the heat and puts the humidity up instead.

Sigue en marcha: Extreme heat (1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)), Heat-day trail closures (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Independence Day, Summer break en Estados Unidos

• Riesgo

  Haboobs

  1 Jul – 10 Sep · normalmenteTemporada de polvoCierres

  Thunderstorm outflows lift a wall of dust hundreds of metres high across the valley in minutes, grounding flights and dropping visibility to nothing. A few a summer, mostly in July and August. Fuente ↗

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  3–5 JulFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  The Fourth of July is a federal holiday: banks and government offices close, fireworks draw large crowds to parks and waterfronts after dark, and roads and flights are busy over the long weekend. Claim a viewing spot early. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Extreme heat (1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)), Heat-day trail closures (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), North American monsoon (15 Jun – 30 Sep)

Concurrido — Summer break en Estados Unidos, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Extreme heat (1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)), Heat-day trail closures (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), North American monsoon (15 Jun – 30 Sep), Haboobs (1 Jul – 10 Sep (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Arizona State Fair, Summer break en Estados Unidos

• Festival

  Arizona State Fair

  25 Sep – 31 Oct · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  Five weekends at the fairgrounds west of downtown from late September, which is the first stretch of the year the evenings are bearable outdoors. Light rail is the sane way in. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Extreme heat (1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)), Heat-day trail closures (1 May – 30 Sep (normalmente)), North American monsoon (15 Jun – 30 Sep), Haboobs (1 Jul – 10 Sep (normalmente))

Concurrido — Arizona State Fair

• Temporada

  Desert hiking season

  15 Oct – 15 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de senderos

  Camelback, South Mountain and the Superstitions are only sensible between mid-October and mid-April, which is also when the resorts charge the most. Half the country's snowbirds are here for it.

Sigue en marcha: Extreme heat (1 May – 5 Oct (normalmente)), Arizona State Fair (25 Sep – 31 Oct (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving break en Estados Unidos

• Festivo

  Thanksgiving

  25–29 NovFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday of November, is the country's biggest travel holiday: airports and highways are at their busiest on the Wednesday before and the Sunday after, and on the day itself offices, banks and many shops close. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente))

Máxima afluencia — Christmas and New Year, Fiesta Bowl week

• Festivo

  Christmas and New Year

  24 Dic – 1 EneNavidad y Año NuevoCierresMucha gente

  Christmas Day and New Year's Day are federal holidays: on 25 December most shops, museums and many restaurants close, and airports stay busy through the week between as families travel. New Year's Eve fills bars and restaurants, many at set-menu prices. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Fiesta Bowl week

  26 Dic – 2 Ene · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha genteReserva pronto

  College football brings two bowl games and their travelling fans to Glendale between Christmas and New Year, on top of the winter residents already here. Resort rates spike for the fortnight. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Desert hiking season (15 Oct – 15 Abr (normalmente)), Thanksgiving (25–29 Nov)