Qué hay en Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego), Argentina, a lo largo del año

Máxima afluencia — Antarctic sailing season, Argentine summer holidays

• Norma

  Tierra del Fuego park entry fee

  1 Ene – 31 DicReserva pronto

  The national park charges per person per day at the gate, with a higher foreign rate, and it is bought online or at the entrance rather than in town. The end-of-the-world train is a separate ticket again. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente)), Antarctic sailing season (20 Oct – 31 Mar), Trekking season (1 Dic – 15 Mar), Argentine summer holidays (20 Dic – 31 Ene)

Máxima afluencia — Antarctic sailing season, Summer holidays en Argentina

En febrero no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente)), Antarctic sailing season (20 Oct – 31 Mar), Trekking season (1 Dic – 15 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Antarctic sailing season, Summer holidays en Argentina

• Festivo

  Semana Santa

  2–5 AbrSemana Santa y PascuaMucha genteReserva prontoCierres

  Holy Thursday and Good Friday make one of the year's biggest long weekends. Banks and public offices close, long-distance buses and domestic flights sell out, and hotels in popular towns fill at higher rates, so book ahead. Fuente ↗

• Naturaleza

  Lenga forests turn

  25 Mar – 5 May · normalmenteColores de otoño

  The southern beech around the town and up the Martial valley goes red and copper through April, with the first snow on the peaks above it. The quietest and, for a photographer, the best few weeks of the year here.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente)), Antarctic sailing season (20 Oct – 31 Mar), Trekking season (1 Dic – 15 Mar)

Concurrido — Semana Santa

• Cierre

  Between the seasons

  15 Abr – 15 Jun

  The Antarctic fleet has gone and the lifts have not opened: hotels drop their rates, several restaurants close for the weeks, and the excursions run on demand rather than a timetable. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Semana Santa (2–5 Abr), Lenga forests turn (25 Mar – 5 May (normalmente)), Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente))

Temporada media — un mes normal

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Lenga forests turn (25 Mar – 5 May (normalmente)), Between the seasons (15 Abr – 15 Jun)

Concurrido — Fiesta de la Noche mas Larga, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Fiesta de la Noche mas Larga

  19–23 Jun · normalmenteGran festivalMucha gente

  The town makes a three-day national festival out of the winter solstice, with torch processions and events across the sports halls and cultural centres. The sun clears the horizon for about seven hours and then gives up. Fuente ↗

• Apertura

  Cerro Castor ski season

  25 Jun – 5 Oct · normalmente

  The southernmost resort in the world and the longest season in Argentina, running from late June into early October, with cheaper promotional weeks at each end. Northern-hemisphere race teams train here in August. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Between the seasons (15 Abr – 15 Jun)

Máxima afluencia — Argentine winter holidays, Winter recess en Argentina

• Festivo

  Argentine winter holidays

  1–31 Jul · normalmenteVacaciones escolaresMucha genteReserva pronto

  The two-week national school break lands somewhere in July and Ushuaia sells itself as the snow city for the whole month around it, with Castor, the husky camps and the Marcha Blanca ski crossing all inside it. Flights from Buenos Aires are at their dearest. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Cerro Castor ski season (25 Jun – 5 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — uno de sus mejores meses por clima

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Cerro Castor ski season (25 Jun – 5 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan, uno de sus mejores meses por clima

En septiembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Cerro Castor ski season (25 Jun – 5 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Antarctic sailing season

• Naturaleza

  Penguins on Isla Martillo

  1 Oct – 5 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de avesReserva pronto

  Magellanic penguins come ashore in the Beagle Channel from about October and are gone by early autumn, peaking between November and February. Landings on the island are capped and permit-only; the gentoos stay all year.

• Temporada

  Antarctic sailing season

  20 Oct – 31 MarTemporada de crucerosMucha genteReserva pronto

  Most Antarctic expeditions on Earth leave from this pier between late October and March, and the town runs on their turnaround days. Hotel rooms and the good restaurants go with the sailing schedule, not the weekend.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Cerro Castor ski season (25 Jun – 5 Oct (normalmente))

Tranquilo — los viajeros lo describen como tranquilo, Antarctic sailing season

En noviembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente)), Antarctic sailing season (20 Oct – 31 Mar)

Máxima afluencia — Antarctic sailing season, Argentine summer holidays

• Temporada

  Trekking season

  1 Dic – 15 MarTemporada de senderos

  Laguna Esmeralda, the Martial glacier and the coastal paths in Tierra del Fuego park are walkable and the light lasts past ten at night. Snow lingers on the high ground into December, so the passes come good last.

• Festivo

  Argentine summer holidays

  20 Dic – 31 EneNavidad y Año NuevoMucha genteReserva pronto

  The rest of the country takes January off and a good share of it comes to the end of the world, on top of the peak of the sailing season. Flights from Buenos Aires and the trail car parks are both at their limit. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Tierra del Fuego park entry fee (1 Ene – 31 Dic), Penguins on Isla Martillo (1 Oct – 5 Abr (normalmente)), Antarctic sailing season (20 Oct – 31 Mar)