Qué hay en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, México, a lo largo del año

Concurrido — Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo

  4–23 EneFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Three weeks of Parachico dancers in carved wooden masks and blond headdresses processing between the churches of Chiapa de Corzo, an hour down the valley. UNESCO lists it, and it is still a village doing it for itself. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr)

Concurrido — uno de sus mejores meses por clima

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr)

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

• Festivo

  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29 Mar – 12 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  Holy Week and the Easter week after it are Mexico's main spring break: schools close, domestic travellers fill hotels and long-distance buses, rates rise, and many offices and shops shut on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

  25 Mar – 30 Abr · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  The town's own fair, held the week after Holy Week: fairground on the edge of town, food stalls, dances and a bullring. Rooms are tight for a fortnight because Semana Santa runs straight into it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr)

Máxima afluencia — Semana Santa and Pascua, Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz

En abril no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Semana Santa and Pascua (29 Mar – 12 Abr), Feria de la Primavera y de la Paz (25 Mar – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr)

Temporada media — un mes normal

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Concurrido — San Juan Bautista in Chamula, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  San Juan Bautista in Chamula

  23–24 JunFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  San Juan Chamula, a short drive from town, honours its patron saint on 24 June with pilgrims, music, fireworks and the handover of flowers by the traditional authorities. Photography inside the church is forbidden and is taken seriously. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Cristóbal Mártir

  17–25 JulFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  The town's patron-saint fiesta runs through the week before 25 July, with night processions lit by pine torches up the long stairway to the San Cristóbal church on its hill, stalls of local sweets and bands. Fuente ↗

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

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

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

• Festivo

  Independence Day

  15–16 SepFiesta nacionalMucha genteCierres

  On the night of 15 September thousands gather in the main square for the Grito from the balcony of the old municipal palace, followed next morning by a parade. Central streets close to traffic for both. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Festival

  Festival Cervantino-Barroco

  20 Oct – 5 Nov · normalmenteFestival de artes

  A week of music and theatre in the courtyards and churches of the centre at the end of October, mostly free and mostly indoors, which matters when the highland evenings are cold and damp. Fuente ↗

Temporada media — un mes normal

• Temporada

  Highland dry season

  1 Nov – 30 Abr

  The months the unpaved roads out to the Lagunas de Montebello and the Tzotzil villages are reliable and the afternoons stay clear. Nights at two thousand two hundred metres are cold enough for the wood smoke to hang in the streets.

Sigue en marcha: Festival Cervantino-Barroco (20 Oct – 5 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Virgen de Guadalupe processions, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Virgen de Guadalupe processions

  1–12 DicFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Runners carrying torches come in from the highland villages for twelve days, and the barrio around the Guadalupe church stays up all night on the eleventh. Traffic in the centre stops for it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Highland dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr)