News
Openings, closures, festival dates and beach notices for Cozumel. Every item is dated, says where the facts came from, and points back at the pages that explain the practical side.
Front page
Festival
Neither of these is programmed for visitors, which is exactly why they are worth planning around. One moves with the church calendar. One does not.
October 31 – November 2
Travel alert
The season is six months long and the real risk sits in three of them. Cozumel is one of the first calls a cruise line drops, and that is the system working.
Beach update
The island shelters its own developed coast. That single geographic fact is the most useful thing anyone choosing between Cozumel and the mainland can know.
Travel alert
A daily wristband, no gloves, no touching coral, and the starfish at El Cielo stay in the water. Four rules that decide what the reef looks like in twenty years.
Travel alert
Everyone plans around hurricanes. Far more visitors get caught out by the winter wind event that stops the ferry for two days in February.
Archive
Seasonal
The difference between a February week and a September week here is not only money. It is how many ships are in, how busy Palancar is, and what is shut.
Seasonal
They aggregate off Isla Mujeres and Holbox from roughly mid-May to mid-September. From Cozumel that is a fourteen-hour day with a ferry at both ends.
Seasonal
The sea here never gets cold. It does get cold enough, in February, that divers who packed a rash guard and nothing else regret it on the second tank.