På gång i Cancún (Riviera Maya), Mexico under året

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Dry season

• Regel

  Visitor tax and park fees

  1 jan – 31 dec

  Quintana Roo charges every foreign visitor a state tourism fee, paid online before you fly out, and the marine parks off Isla Mujeres and Cozumel add their own per-day charge on the boat. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: The nortes (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis)), Dry season (15 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Christmas and New Year peak (18 dec – 5 jan)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, US spring break

• Helg

  US spring break

  25 feb – 5 apr · vanligtvisSkollovTrångt

  American universities empty into the hotel zone for most of March. The beach clubs run at capacity, the flights are full, and the quieter Yucatán towns behind Cancún are barely affected. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), The nortes (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis)), Dry season (15 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, US spring break

• Helg

  Semana Santa and Pascua

  29 mar – 12 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtBoka tidigtStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

• Natur

  Equinox at Chichén Itzá

  20–21 marStor festivalTrångt

  Late on the equinox afternoon the stepped edge of El Castillo throws seven triangles of light down the north stairway, finishing at the serpent's head. Tens of thousands come for it over three days. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), US spring break (25 feb – 5 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (15 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, US spring break

• Säsong

  Sargassum season

  1 apr – 30 sep · vanligtvisRisk

  Rafts of brown seaweed pile up on the east-facing beaches, worst between May and August. It rots fast and smells, hotels rake it at dawn, and the north-facing beaches at Isla Mujeres usually escape it. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), US spring break (25 feb – 5 apr (vanligtvis)), Semana Santa and Pascua (29 mar – 12 apr), Dry season (15 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna

• Natur

  Sea turtle nesting

  1 maj – 31 okt · vanligtvis

  Loggerheads and greens come up the hotel-zone beaches at night through the summer and the hatchlings run from August. Beach lighting is dimmed and the nests are fenced; the releases are run by the hotels. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sargassum season (1 apr – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en av dess sämsta vädermånader

• Risk

  Hurricane season

  1 jun – 30 nov

  The Atlantic season runs June to November, with most activity between mid-August and mid-October. Källa ↗

• Natur

  Whale sharks off Isla Mujeres

  15 jun – 15 sepDyksäsongBoka tidigt

  Hundreds of whale sharks gather to feed north of Isla Mujeres and the permitted swim season runs from mid-June to mid-September, July being the densest. It is a three-hour boat day in open water, often a rough one. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sargassum season (1 apr – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Sea turtle nesting (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Mexican summer holidays

• Helg

  Mexican summer holidays

  15 jul – 31 aug · vanligtvisSkollovTrångt

  Domestic school holidays fill the hotel zone with Mexican families, which is a different and cheaper crowd than spring break but the same queue at Xcaret. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sargassum season (1 apr – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Sea turtle nesting (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Whale sharks off Isla Mujeres (15 jun – 15 sep)

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Mexican summer holidays

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sargassum season (1 apr – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Sea turtle nesting (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Whale sharks off Isla Mujeres (15 jun – 15 sep), Mexican summer holidays (15 jul – 31 aug (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — resenärer beskriver det som högsäsong, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sargassum season (1 apr – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Sea turtle nesting (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Whale sharks off Isla Mujeres (15 jun – 15 sep)

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna

• Festival

  Hanal Pixán

  31 okt – 2 novReligiös högtid

  The Yucatán's own Day of the Dead: altars in the houses, cemeteries lit at night, and mucbipollo baked in a pit oven. Mérida and the inland towns do it properly; the hotel zone does a version. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Sea turtle nesting (1 maj – 31 okt (vanligtvis)), Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Dry season

• Säsong

  The nortes

  1 nov – 28 feb · vanligtvisVindsäsongRisk

  Cold fronts push down the Gulf every couple of weeks through the winter and bring two or three grey, blustery days with a chopped-up sea and the ferries to Isla running rough. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Dry season

  15 nov – 30 apr · vanligtvisTrångt

  The trade winds settle, the water goes clear over the reef, and the beaches are free of weed. It is also when everything costs the most and the reef sites are busiest.

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), Hurricane season (1 jun – 30 nov), Hanal Pixán (31 okt – 2 nov)

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Dry season

• Helg

  Christmas and New Year peak

  18 dec – 5 janJul & nyårTrångtBoka tidigt

  The most crowded and most expensive fortnight of the year, booked out months ahead. Restaurants run set menus and the transfer roads from the airport back up all afternoon. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Visitor tax and park fees (1 jan – 31 dec), The nortes (1 nov – 28 feb (vanligtvis)), Dry season (15 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))