På gång i Lake Atitlán (Atitlán), Guatemala under året

Mest folk — Dry season, Christmas and New Year

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Xocomil on the lake (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Christmas and New Year (18 dec – 2 jan)

Mycket folk — Dry season

Inget nytt börjar i februari.

Pågår fortfarande: Xocomil on the lake (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

• Festival

  Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan

  29 mar – 5 aprPåsk & stilla veckanTrångtBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Xocomil on the lake (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan, Dry season

Inget nytt börjar i april.

Pågår fortfarande: Semana Santa at Santiago Atitlan (29 mar – 5 apr), Xocomil on the lake (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — en av dess sämsta vädermånader

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

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

• Risk

  Landslide season

  1 jun – 31 okt · vanligtvis

  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. Källa ↗

Mellansäsong — skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Santiago Atitlan town fiesta

  19–27 jul · vanligtvisReligiös högtid

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Landslide season (1 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Feast of the Assumption at Solola, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Feast of the Assumption at Solola

  7–16 aug · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Landslide season (1 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Independence Day, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Independence Day

  14–15 sepNationell helgdagTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Landslide season (1 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

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  San Francisco fiesta, Panajachel

  1–7 okt · vanligtvisReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Landslide season (1 jun – 31 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Dry season

• Festival

  Todos Santos

  1 novReligiös högtid

  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. Källa ↗

• Säsong

  Xocomil on the lake

  1 nov – 30 apr · vanligtvisVindsäsongRisk

  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.

• Säsong

  Dry season

  1 nov – 30 apr · vanligtvisTrångt

  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.

Mest folk — Dry season, Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

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  Santo Tomas at Chichicastenango

  13–21 decReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

• Helg

  Christmas and New Year

  18 dec – 2 janJul & nyårTrångtBoka tidigt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Xocomil on the lake (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis)), Dry season (1 nov – 30 apr (vanligtvis))