Guatemalan Consulate Saturday Openings 2026: Which Consulates Open on Which Saturday

The cross-consulate view no single city page can give you

Every consulate page on this site already lists its own Saturday dates. What none of them can answer is the question people actually ask: “which consulates are open this Saturday?” and “when is the next open Saturday anywhere near me, even at a different consulate?” This page pivots the table — instead of one city with its dates, here is each date with its cities.

In short: MINEX scheduled 24 distinct Saturdays in 2026 across the 26 Guatemalan consulates in the United States, for 324 openings in total. Eight of those dates open all 26 consulates at once. All remaining variation comes from eight consulates — Chicago, Denver, Lake Worth, Miami, Philadelphia, Riverhead, San Bernardino and San Francisco — plus the January split. 20 of the 26 consulates have exactly 12 Saturdays; Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia have 13; San Bernardino and San Francisco have 14; Lake Worth has 17. (Calendario Sábados Consulares 2026, MINEX; retrieved September 21, 2026.)

Master table: every 2026 Saturday and who opens

All 24 dates fall on a Saturday. That check matters, because four cells in the MINEX PDF do not. San Bernardino’s May cell reads 2 y 13-May, and May 13, 2026 is a Wednesday. San Francisco’s July cell reads 11, 25 y 26-Jul and its August cell 1, 15 y 16-Ago; Lake Worth’s September cell reads 12, 19 y 20-Sep — and July 26, August 16 and September 20 are all Sundays. We publish none of those four. They may be typos, or two-day weekend sessions printed inside a Saturday-only calendar; MINEX does not say, so we record them as unverified rather than list a Saturday that is not one.

What is left of 2026

The exceptions: extra dates versus moved dates

This is the distinction that disappears when you only read your own city’s list. A consulate with 12 dates may not have the same 12 as its neighbour.

Denver and Riverhead are the confusing case: they do not have additional Saturdays, they have different ones. If you live in Colorado and read that “the consulates open on October 3”, Denver is shut that day.

All 26 consulates and their Saturday totals

The January split looks non-random — the six January 3 consulates are Dallas, Del Rio, McAllen, Oklahoma City, Phoenix and Los Angeles, all in the south and west — but MINEX publishes no criterion, so we do not assign one.

What your consulate is called in the MINEX document

If you open the PDF and cannot find your city, it is probably labelled differently:

Outside the United States

The calendar version current on September 21, 2026 adds five non-US rows:

We have no dedicated pages for any of those five. And London is not in the programme: the 2026 Saturday calendar contains no European post at all. For consular work from the UK or Ireland the reference is the Guatemalan Embassy in London, during ordinary hours.

A published date can disappear

Between our capture on July 22, 2026 and our capture on August 11, 2026, the MINEX calendar changed: the Lake Worth row no longer includes August 15. It went from 17 dates to 16. We corrected our Lake Worth page the same day.

That is not an administrative footnote. Anyone holding the July calendar would have driven to Lake Worth on a Saturday the consulate had no extraordinary opening scheduled. Confirm with the consulate before travelling, even when the date is published.

The document also moves. It has been published at three different paths this year — /adj/2026/6/, /adj/2026/7/ and, since our September 21, 2026 reading, /adj/2026/9/ — always under the same file name. A bookmark to last month’s URL is not a bookmark to the current calendar.

And our own reading can be wrong. The September 21 capture carries six dates our August reading did not: Miami August 15, San Bernardino July 25 and August 29, San Francisco July 25 and August 15, Lake Worth September 19. Every one of them sits in a cell the PDF breaks across two lines — exactly the shape a text extraction loses. We cannot tell from the document whether MINEX added them or our August reading dropped them, so we say that rather than pick the flattering answer. All six are already in the past; the calendar from October onward is unchanged.

What MINEX does not publish in this calendar

Worth stating rather than filling in:

• Hours. The document carries consulate and date. It carries no opening or closing time.
• Capacity. It does not say how many appointments open per Saturday or per service.
• Which services run that day. There is no per-date service list.
• Addresses. The calendar does not repeat each post’s address.
• The reason for the January split, or for the Denver and Riverhead moves.

For all of that the source is your own consulate: find yours in the state-by-state consulate lookup and read how appointment booking works.

Saturday service is not a mobile consulate

Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (AGN), the state news agency, describes the two programmes this way while reporting MINEX’s figures on December 17, 2025. The quoted wording is AGN’s, not a direct quote from MINEX — what that dispatch does publish as the ministry’s own words are the warnings further down:

If your city has no consulate, the programme that serves you is the other one: mobile consulates — what they are and how to find yours.

And one warning MINEX repeats in its communiqués: “La cita es gratuita. No permita que intermediarios le cobren por el servicio” — the appointment is free; do not let intermediaries charge you for it.

Sources

• Calendario Sábados Consulares 2026 — Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Guatemala (MINEX). PDF: https://www.minex.gob.gt/adj/2026/9/adj_1306.pdf · page: https://www.minex.gob.gt/din/25-consulados-moviles-y-sabados-consulares — retrieved September 21, 2026 (previous captures: August 11 at /adj/2026/7/, July 22 at /adj/2026/6/). minex.gob.gt answers 403 to every automated request, so the PDF is read in a real browser session; the verbatim text is kept at data/captures/minex-sabados-consulares-2026-09-21.txt and parsed by scripts/import_saturday_capture.py.
• “Minex brindó más de 26 mil servicios en Consulados Móviles y Sábados Consulares en noviembre 2025” — Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias (AGN), December 17, 2025, https://agn.gt/minex-brindo-mas-de-26-mil-servicios-en-consulados-moviles-y-sabados-consulares-en-noviembre-2025/ — retrieved August 11, 2026. Source for the warning about intermediaries (that one is quoted from the ministry: “la cancillería recuerda…”) and for the descriptions of both programmes (AGN’s own wording).
• MINEX consular appointment portal — https://minex-gob-gt.my.site.com/pc/s/citas-consulares — reachable (August 11, 2026) but serving no appointment form for US consulates (September 9, 2026); Saturday slots are booked by phone with each consulate.

This page reports the calendar as published by MINEX. It is not legal or immigration advice.