Your experience in our feasts will increase the beauty of our celebrations and you will learn new ways to see life.

Date		National Feasts in Guatemala.
January 1		New Year
March / April		Holy Week
May 1		Labor Day
June 30		Day of the Army
August 15		Day of the Virgin of the Asuncion. Is the patron of Guatemala.
September 15		Independence Day
October 20		Revolution Day
November 1		Day of all the Saints.
December 24		Christmas Eve.
December 25		Christmas
December 31		New Year's Eve.

There are also local celebrations in each municipum and public holidays of pre Hispanic tradition, where an explosion of color, happiness and cultural expressions of old customs are produced. Some of them are:

• January 15: peregrination to Esquipulas (Chiquimula). Pilgrims of Central America visit the Basilica to venerate the famous Cristo Negro [Black Christ].
• January: Rabinal, Baja Verapaz. Feast in honor to the Apostle San Pablo.
• February: Carnival of Suchitepequez.
• February: First Friday of Lent in Antigua, Guatemala.
• May 3: titular feast of Santa Cruz (Amatitilan). Masses and aquatic processions.
• May 8: Feast of San Isidro Labrador in Livingston (Izabal). Folkloric dances like the Yancunu are performed.
• June 25: San Juan Bautista (patron of San Juan in Atitlan). Processions, traditional dances and fair are performed.
• June: Corpus Christi in Patzun and Tecpan Guatemala.
• July 12: feasts Julias in Huehuetenango.
• July 25: title feast in Santiago, Atitlan (Solola).
• August 6: traditional feast in Coban. Probably it is the most native important feast. A feast with traditional dances like the Dances of the Deer, Jaguar, Moro and the Paabanc are performed. Also, the native festival of Rabin Ajau is celebrated, with the election of the Tezulutlan queen.
• September 29: titular feast of San Miguel Totonicapan. Processions, special masses and traditional dances are celebrated.
• October 4: San Francisco de Asis, titular Feast of Panajachel (Solola).
• December 7: Celebration of the Virgin de Conception in San Cristobal (Totonicapan) and devils run. In some communities, men dress like devils and pursue the children. In all the country is a tradition to burn trash in the streets at night so that the devil does not enter in the houses the next year.
• December 21: titular feast of Chichicastenango (El Quiche). They celebrate with processions from the different brotherhoods of the community, traditional dances as the Dance of the Conquest and the Bull, special masses and fireworks.
• December 28: Feast in honor to the Virgin of the Rosary with folkloric dances and special masses. (Livingston, Izabal).