Best time to visit Mexico

Three Kings Day marks the traditional gift-giving holiday in Mexico, celebrated with rosca de reyes sweet bread shared among families and public gatherings in Mexico City's Alameda Central park.

One of Mexico's oldest and largest Carnaval celebrations features nine days of parades, live music, dancing in the streets, and the traditional burning of bad humor before Lent begins.

Thousands gather at the ancient Maya pyramid to witness the serpent-shadow phenomenon on Kukulkán's staircase, a spectacular light effect designed by Maya astronomers over a thousand years ago.

Holy Week features dramatic passion plays, most famously the Iztapalapa reenactment in Mexico City drawing over two million viewers, alongside processions and religious ceremonies throughout colonial towns like Taxco and San Miguel de Allende.

Commemorates the 1862 Mexican victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla, celebrated most authentically in Puebla city with military parades, historical reenactments, and traditional mole poblano feasts.

Mexico's largest and oldest state fair concludes in early June with bullfights, cockfights, charreadas, concerts, and agricultural exhibitions attracting millions across its month-long run through central Mexico.

Indigenous communities from Oaxaca's eight regions gather at the Cerro del Fortín amphitheater to perform traditional dances in elaborate regional costumes, sharing produce and crafts in one of Mexico's most authentic cultural celebrations.

Famous for La Noche que Nadie Duerme when residents create elaborate sawdust and flower carpets covering six kilometers of streets overnight, followed by the running of the bulls known as La Huamantlada.

El Grito de Independencia is reenacted from the National Palace balcony in Mexico City on the 15th, followed by military parades on the 16th commemorating the 1810 start of the war against Spanish rule.

Latin America's premier performing arts festival transforms the colonial city with theater, dance, opera, and music from dozens of countries across three weeks, honoring Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes.