På gång i Iquique, Chile under året

Mest folk — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays i Chile

• Säsong

  Chilean summer season

  1 jan – 28 febSkollovTrångt

  Cavancha and Brava fill with Chilean and Bolivian families for the two months the schools are out, the seafront restaurants queue and the Zofri duty-free car park is full all day.

• Säsong

  Altiplanic winter inland

  1 jan – 15 mar · vanligtvisRisk

  Summer storms over the altiplano send flash floods down the ravines inland, cutting the roads to Mamiña, Pica and the high parks. The coast stays dry, but check before any day trip up from town. Källa ↗

Mest folk — Chilean summer season, Summer holidays i Chile

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Chilean summer season (1 jan – 28 feb), Altiplanic winter inland (1 jan – 15 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Chile, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Helg

  Semana Santa

  3–5 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtBoka tidigtStängningar

  Good Friday and Holy Saturday are public holidays, giving an autumn long weekend. Offices close, long-distance buses and domestic flights fill, and hotels in coastal, lake and desert towns see one more busy weekend after the summer. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Altiplanic winter inland (1 jan – 15 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Semana Santa

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Semana Santa (3–5 apr)

Mycket folk — Glorias Navales

• Säsong

  Camanchaca grey mornings

  15 maj – 30 sep · vanligtvisDimsäsong

  In the southern winter the coastal fog bank, the camanchaca, sits over the city most mornings and only burns off around midday. Beach days start late and the promenade is quiet until the sun comes through.

• Helg

  Glorias Navales

  21 majNationell helgdagTrångt

  The city where Arturo Prat's Esmeralda went down in 1879 marks the anniversary with a parade at Plaza 21 de Mayo, a flotilla out to the Esmeralda buoy and a 21-gun salute at 12:10, the hour she sank. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Winter holidays i Chile

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Pågår fortfarande: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Fiesta de La Tirana, Winter holidays i Chile

• Festival

  Fiesta de La Tirana

  10–20 julReligiös högtidTrångtBoka tidigt

  A village 70 km inland takes a quarter of a million people and two hundred masked dance societies for the Virgen del Carmen on 16 July. Iquique is where they all sleep, so its beds go months ahead. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

• Festival

  San Lorenzo de Tarapacá

  1–11 aug · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångtBoka tidigt

  Pilgrims from Chile, Peru and Bolivia pour into a desert village about a hundred kilometres inland for the miners' saint on 10 August, with dance societies playing through the night. Iquique is the base. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Fiestas Patrias, Fiestas Patrias recess i Chile

• Helg

  Fiestas Patrias

  18–19 sepNationell helgdagTrångtStängningar

  Fondas go up behind the beach and the mining camps inland empty into town for two days of public holiday. Shops and offices shut and the road to the altiplano is busy both ways. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Camanchaca grey mornings (15 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — en helt vanlig månad

Inget nytt börjar i oktober.

Mycket folk — Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

• Festival

  Fiesta de San Andres in Pica

  28–30 novReligiös högtidTrångt

  The oasis town of Pica, a day trip inland, honours its patron saint with the uncorking of the chicha on the 28th, a 5:30 am drum-and-dynamite wake-up on the 29th, candlelit processions and religious dance troupes. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Summer holidays i Chile, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.