Antigua Guatemala in November 2026: Dates and Logistics

Antigua’s Flower Festival is confirmed for November 14 and 15, 2026; Prensa Libre places the Festival del Níspero in San Juan del Obispo on November 21 and 22. Sumpango’s giant-kite tradition falls on November 1, which the government’s 2026 calendar lists as Sunday and Día de Todos los Santos. The dated calendar below connects those outings without treating old parking plans or an undated shuttle listing as current guarantees.

Quick summary

• November 1: Sumpango giant kites and the Día de Todos los Santos holiday. The festival website describes the recurring date but still displays an older edition.
• November 14 and 15: the Antigua Flower Festival, confirmed by its organizer in La Antigua Guatemala.
• November 21 and 22: the Festival del Níspero at the Plazuela Central de San Juan del Obispo, according to Prensa Libre.
• Transport: Atitrans lists an Antigua–Sumpango round trip, but its descriptive and booking prices disagree and the listing has no edition year.
• Weather: historical model averages indicate rain remains part of November; they do not predict the weather on an event day.

November 2026 calendar, day by day

The table lists the days covered by the announcements below. Dates without a verified listing are omitted; that does not mean nothing happens on those days. Flower Festival satellite dates and the Níspero dates come from Prensa Libre, while the Flower Festival’s main dates come directly from the organizer. See the linked event guides for their programmes.

For the wider calendar, use Antigua festivals. This month view keeps the dates together; the individual event pages carry the event-specific detail.

Getting to the events from Antigua

Sumpango: confirm the shuttle price and date

Atitrans’ Antigua–Sumpango listing, read 25 October 2026, states Round trip transportation US$25.00 per person. Its booking area instead displays $ followed by 30.00. These are conflicting amounts on the same operator page, not interchangeable quotes or a confirmed payable fare.

The published timing is Departure time: 08:00 am Return time: 14:00 pm. That is the operator’s wording, including the unusual return-time format. The page refers to November 1st but does not state an edition year. A booking therefore needs confirmation of the travel date, final price, meeting point and return arrangements from Atitrans.

The checked operator and event pages do not state a sourced road distance from Antigua to Sumpango or San Juan del Obispo. This guide consequently gives neither a distance nor an estimated festival-day drive time. The Sumpango event guide separates festival details from transport listings.

Flower Festival: the event is in Antigua

The organizer places the festival in La Antigua Guatemala, across its streets, parks and plazas. The Flower Festival guide carries the event details; it is a different outing from travelling to Sumpango or San Juan del Obispo.

The checked municipal and organizer pages do not establish the current road closures, parking changes or local shuttle schedules. Confirm vehicle access and the unloading point directly with your accommodation before fixing an arrival plan around the festival.

San Juan del Obispo: a separate festival date

Prensa Libre places the Níspero event at the Plazuela Central de San Juan del Obispo, La Antigua Guatemala, on November 21 and 22, with free admission. The checked announcement and municipal page do not establish current bus or taxi fares and timetables. Arrange the outward and return journey separately from admission; the Níspero event guide explains the event-specific information and schedule caveats.

November 1: holiday status and closures

The government news agency’s 2026 holiday calendar lists Día de Todos los Santos on Sunday November 1. The Labor Code includes November 1 among paid holidays for private-sector workers.

Neither fact establishes whether an individual restaurant, museum, bank branch or shop opens. The checked municipal information does not provide a business-by-business closure list or a daily crowd forecast. Confirm any essential appointment or timed visit with the venue itself; this guide makes no attendance or traffic-delay prediction.

November weather: historical averages, not a forecast

Our historical calculation uses the Open-Meteo Historical Weather API, with ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis for 1996-01-01..2025-12-31, downloaded 24 September 2026. It averages daily maximum and minimum temperatures by calendar month, monthly precipitation totals and the count of days with precipitation >= 1.0 mm.

These are gridded model results downscaled to the reported point elevation, not observations from an Antigua weather station. The INSIVUMEH pages checked do not establish November station normals and their reference period. The model averages leave room for rain during a November stay; they cannot tell you whether the parade, the flower weekend or your Sumpango trip will be wet. Our Antigua weather guide provides broader weather context.

The planning trade-off is between the dated event windows and flexibility between them. Staying for both the flower and Níspero dates requires being in the area for their separately announced dates; it does not establish room availability, a package price or a festival premium.

Related

• Giant Kite Festival in Sumpango
• Antigua Flower Festival
• Festival del Níspero in San Juan del Obispo
• Antigua festivals calendar
• Antigua weather

Sources

• Flower Festival organizer — main dates and host city; checked 25 October 2026.
• Prensa Libre: Flower Festival agenda — gardens, kit collection, race and parade dates; checked 25 October 2026.
• Prensa Libre: Festival del Níspero 2026 — dates, place and admission; checked 25 October 2026.
• Sumpango festival organizer — recurring November 1 date; its displayed edition is older; checked 25 October 2026.
• Atitrans Antigua–Sumpango shuttle — conflicting prices and undated timing; redirects to its Antigua listing; checked 25 October 2026.
• AGN: 2026 holidays — Día de Todos los Santos; checked 25 October 2026.
• Labor Code hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports — paid-holiday text; checked 25 October 2026.
• Municipalidad de Antigua Guatemala — checked for current transport and closure details, 25 October 2026.
• INSIVUMEH station page and INSIVUMEH information page — checked for November station normals, 25 October 2026.
• Antigua weather guide — related weather context. The historical Open-Meteo calculation used above was downloaded 24 September 2026 and rechecked locally 25 October 2026; it is model reanalysis, not station normals.