O que acontece em Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala, ao longo do ano

Lotação máxima — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

Nada novo começa em janeiro.

Ainda em andamento: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Christmas and New Year (18 Dez – 2 Jan)

Movimentado — Dry season

Nada novo começa em fevereiro.

Ainda em andamento: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

• Festival

  Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan

  29 Mar – 5 AbrPáscoa e Semana SantaLotadoReserve cedo

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))

Lotação máxima — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

Nada novo começa em abril.

Ainda em andamento: 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 — um dos piores meses em clima

Nada novo começa em maio.

Tranquilo — férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um dos piores meses em clima

• Risco

  Landslide season

  1 Jun – 31 Out · 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. Fonte ↗

Meia-estação — férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes, um mês comum

• Festival

  Santiago Atitlan town fiesta

  19–27 Jul · normalmenteFesta 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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Out (normalmente))

Movimentado — Feast of the Assumption at Solola, férias escolares em 3 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Festival

  Feast of the Assumption at Solola

  7–16 Ago · normalmenteFesta religiosaLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Out (normalmente))

Movimentado — Independence Day, férias escolares em 2 dos países que mais mandam visitantes

• Festival

  Independence Day

  14–15 SetFeriado nacionalLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Out (normalmente))

Movimentado — San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

• Festival

  San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

  1–7 Out · normalmenteFesta religiosaLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Landslide season (1 Jun – 31 Out (normalmente))

Movimentado — Dry season

• Festival

  Todos Santos

  1 NovFesta 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. Fonte ↗

• Temporada

  Xocomil on the lake

  1 Nov – 30 Abr · normalmenteTemporada de ventoRisco

  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 · normalmenteLotado

  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.

Lotação máxima — Dry season, Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

• Festival

  Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

  13–21 DezFesta religiosaLotado

  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. Fonte ↗

• Feriado

  Christmas and New Year

  18 Dez – 2 JanNatal e Ano-NovoLotadoReserve cedo

  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. Fonte ↗

Ainda em andamento: Xocomil on the lake (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente)), Dry season (1 Nov – 30 Abr (normalmente))