The year in Mexico: festivals month by month

November

• Día de Muertos (1 November, 2 days) — The first days of November, when families build an altar for their dead, spend a night in the cemetery, and nobody is sad: the dead are back for a visit.

December

• Las posadas and the Christmas season (16 December, 9 days) — From 16 December, nine nights of candlelit processions, a song at the door asking for shelter, hot ponche, tamales and a seven-pointed piñata, ending with…