Día de los Muertos 2026: Dates, Meaning & Celebrations

By Kimi · October 28, 2026 · 18 min read

Key takeaways

Día de los Muertos 2026 falls on Sunday, Nov. 1 and Monday, Nov. 2, the Catholic feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Observance often starts earlier: Mexico’s agriculture ministry describes a traditional cycle that opens on Oct. 28, and many communities keep their own days.
It is a family holiday for welcoming back the souls of the dead, which the Smithsonian’s American Indian museum describes as a celebration rather than a period of mourning. Families build ofrendas with water, food, photos, candles, marigolds and pan de muerto, and keep vigil at graves. UNESCO proclaimed it in 2003 and inscribed it as intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
Mexico City’s free Gran Desfile starts on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. local time (4 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. PDT) and runs along Paseo de la Reforma to the Zócalo, where a monumental ofrenda with a 32-meter Catrina stands from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2.
US celebrations still ahead include the Smithsonian’s free festivals in Washington and New York on Oct. 31, and Grand Park in Los Angeles, Pearl in San Antonio and Albuquerque’s Marigold Procession on Nov. 1.
⚠️ At least three US events were canceled, with organizers citing immigration enforcement or the safety of immigrant communities: San Antonio’s Woodlawn Lake festival, Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s event and the Nov. 7 festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey. In Michoacán, Janitzio’s island cemetery is closed to tourists on Nov. 1 and 2 for repairs.
It is not a US federal holiday. In Mexico, preschools, primary and secondary schools on the federal SEP calendar have no classes from Friday, Oct. 30 through Monday, Nov. 2, and bank branches close on Nov. 2, although federal labor law does not make Nov. 1 or 2 a mandatory day off.

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2026 falls on Sunday, Nov. 1 and Monday, Nov. 2, though many communities begin earlier, from Oct. 28 in the traditional calendar described by Mexico’s agriculture ministry. It is a family holiday that welcomes back the souls of the dead with ofrendas (offerings set out on altars), marigolds, food and cemetery vigils. Mexico City’s free Gran Desfile (grand parade) starts on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. local time, which is 4 p.m. EDT.

This guide is current as of 2:10 p.m. EDT (12:10 p.m. in Mexico City) on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. Times are local unless marked otherwise.

When is Día de los Muertos 2026?

The main days of Día de los Muertos 2026 are Sunday, Nov. 1 and Monday, Nov. 2. They are All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day on the Catholic calendar, and UNESCO notes that the season, from late October into early November, also marks the end of the yearly maize-growing cycle. Mexican government pages usually call the holiday Día de Muertos, while most of the US organizers listed below use Día de los Muertos; both names refer to the same observance.

The season is already under way. Mexico City’s events began in mid-October, and pupils at preschools, primary and secondary schools that follow the calendar of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) get a four-day weekend starting Friday, Oct. 30.

Why do some families start on Oct. 28?

Many communities remember different groups of the dead on different days, so observance can begin in late October. Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) describes the traditional calendar below; the columns give the date, its weekday in 2026 and who is remembered.

Date	Day	Honored
Oct. 28	Wed.	Those who died by violence or accident
Oct. 30–31	Fri.–Sat.	Children who died unbaptized
Nov. 1	Sun.	Children, the muertos chiquitos
Nov. 2	Mon.	Adults

Practice varies widely. UNESCO says the dead are grouped by cause of death, age, sex and, in some cases, profession, with a day set aside for each group. Three examples from Mexican government sources:

The Huasteca: Xantolo, as the festival is known in the region, now begins on Oct. 29. Children are received on Nov. 1 and adults on Nov. 2, and the dead are said to stay among the living until late November, when St. Andrew is believed to return them to the world of the dead (Secretariat of Culture).
Cuanajo, Michoacán: Oct. 31 is for the angelitos, meaning children and people who died unmarried up to age 25. Nov. 1 is for adults, and on Nov. 2 the souls are sent off with a fiesta of food and fireworks (Secretariat of Culture).
San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico City: the ritual cycle opens on Sept. 29, when families clean the graves. Children’s souls are received on Oct. 31 and adults on Nov. 1, and the cycle ends on the night of Nov. 2 with La Alumbrada, when thousands of candles light the cemetery (Mexico City’s official tourism guide).

What does Día de los Muertos mean?

Día de los Muertos commemorates what UNESCO calls the transitory return to Earth of deceased relatives and loved ones, and families prepare offerings, flowers and favorite foods to welcome them home. In UNESCO’s description, families help the souls find their way by laying flower petals, candles and offerings along the path from the cemetery to the house, and they cook the dead person’s favorite dishes for the home altar and the grave. Preparations are made with great care, UNESCO adds, because the dead are believed able to bring their families good fortune, such as an abundant maize harvest, or misfortune, depending on how well the rituals are carried out.

Sources describe the mood of the days in different ways. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian calls the holiday an occasion for celebrating with family, both living and dead, rather than a period of mourning, and National Geographic says its point is to honor the dead with love and respect. The Catholic feasts that share its dates are more somber: an essay published by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) notes that Nov. 1 and 2 are marked with special Masses for the dead and are days of mourning for Christians.

UNESCO first proclaimed the Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead in 2003, a date Mexico’s Secretariat of Culture gives as Nov. 7, 2003, and inscribed it on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.

Where does the holiday come from?

Its origins are debated: UNESCO describes a fusion of pre-Hispanic rites and Catholic feasts, while an essay published by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) argues that the Nov. 1 and 2 feasts are Catholic in origin, with Indigenous practices folded in after the Spanish conquest.

Pre-Hispanic roots: UNESCO says the fusion brings together two universes, one shaped by Indigenous belief systems and the other by worldviews that Europeans brought in the 16th century. National Geographic goes further, tracing the holiday back several thousand years to the Aztec, Toltec and other Nahua peoples, for whom death was a natural part of life.
A Catholic calendar: the INAH essay, by archaeologist Victor Joel Santos Ramírez, argues a view it credits to the late researcher Elsa Malvido. In its account, Pope Gregory IV fixed All Saints’ Day on Nov. 1 around the year 835, Odilo, abbot of Cluny, instituted All Souls’ Day on Nov. 2 in 998, and both feasts reached Mexico in the 16th century, soon after the conquest. The Mexica’s own feasts for the dead, Miccailhuitontli and Huey Miccailhuitl, were held in August and September. Once those ceremonies were banned, the essay says, ancestral practices moved into the Nov. 2 observance, a process the author calls a synthesis. It adds that many features now seen as distinctly Mexican, from sugar skulls to the bread of the dead, have European antecedents.

The disagreement is about where the holiday began, not about what it is now: all three sources describe an observance in which Indigenous beliefs and the Catholic calendar are bound together.

What goes on an ofrenda?

An ofrenda is an offering, usually set out on an altar at home or at the grave, and it is built to welcome the spirits back rather than for worship. National Geographic and UNESCO describe these common elements:

Water for souls thirsty after the long journey, plus food, often the dead person’s favorite dishes.
Photos and candles, often a candle for each relative who has died.
Small toys when one of the dead is a child.
Copal, a tree-resin incense whose smoke is meant to carry praise and prayers and purify the space around the altar.
Papel picado, layers of tissue paper cut into designs, which represent the wind and the fragility of life.
Marigolds, known in Mexico as cempasúchil, the main flower on the altar.

SADER’s own list of essentials adds salt, fruit, pan de muerto and small skulls made of sugar, chocolate or amaranth.

Marigolds carry special meaning. SADER says their scent and color are believed to help souls reach their ofrenda, and the Smithsonian’s American Indian museum explains that their petals are used to mark a path between the cemetery and the family home. Mexico City’s tourism guide notes that in Nahuatl poetry the flower stands for suns that descend to light the way for the dead.

Pan de muerto, the bread of the dead, is a sweet bread often flavored with anise and topped with bones and skulls made of dough, according to National Geographic. SADER says its shape represents the cycle of life and death.

What do sugar skulls, calaveras and La Catrina mean?

Calavera means skull, and on Day of the Dead the word covers both decorated sugar skulls and short satirical poems, while La Catrina is the elegant skeleton who has become the holiday’s best-known symbol.

Sugar skulls come from a sugar-art tradition that National Geographic says 17th-century Italian missionaries brought to Mexico. They are pressed in molds and decorated in bright colors.
Literary calaveras are short, humorous verses. National Geographic dates them to the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when newspapers printed mock epitaphs poking fun at the living, and they are still written, read aloud and broadcast today.
La Catrina began as La Calavera Garbancera, an early 20th-century etching by José Guadalupe Posada, an engraver born in Aguascalientes. Posada meant it as social commentary on Mexicans who emulated European sophistication, according to National Geographic, and the original shows the skull only from the shoulders up, in a French hat with feathers, according to El Universal. In his 1947 mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central,” Diego Rivera painted the figure in elegant dress, in the foreground beside Posada himself. That turned the Calavera Garbancera into La Catrina, a name drawn from catrín, a word for an elegant, well-dressed man.

What happens at cemetery vigils?

Families clean and decorate the graves of their relatives and keep vigil beside them with candles, flowers and food. UNESCO describes offerings laid at the tomb as well as at the home altar, and National Geographic describes community members in Mixquic cleaning and decorating the graves of their loved ones. There, the colonial cemetery goes dark on the night of Nov. 2 and is lit by thousands of candles on the graves, amid prayers and songs, during La Alumbrada, according to Mexico City’s tourism guide.

These are family spaces. The same guide asks visitors to:

ask permission before taking photos;
keep a respectful silence during La Alumbrada;
avoid sitting or stepping on graves; and
arrive hours early, because traffic is heavy.

How is Day of the Dead different from Halloween?

Day of the Dead is a separate holiday from Halloween, with different dates, roots and purpose.

Dates: Halloween is Oct. 31, while the main Day of the Dead observances are Nov. 1 and 2.
Tone: National Geographic contrasts Halloween’s fright and mischief with Day of the Dead’s color and joy, a celebration meant to honor dead relatives with love and respect.
Roots: the INAH essay traces Halloween’s customs to Samhain, a Celtic festival held on Oct. 31 in Ireland, Wales and Scotland that later traveled from Ireland to the United States. Day of the Dead grew from the Catholic feasts of Nov. 1 and 2 and from Indigenous traditions, as described above.

This year Halloween falls on a Saturday, the same day as Mexico City’s parade.

Is Día de los Muertos a public holiday?

Día de los Muertos is not a US federal holiday, and Mexico’s federal labor law does not make Nov. 1 or 2 a mandatory day off, although Mexico’s preschools, primary and secondary schools on the SEP calendar close from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, and bank branches close on Nov. 2.

United States: the Office of Personnel Management’s 2026 holiday list does not include Nov. 1 or 2. The nearest federal holidays are Columbus Day (Oct. 12) and Veterans Day (Nov. 11).
Mexico, schools: for preschool, primary and secondary pupils at public schools and SEP-registered private schools, Thursday, Oct. 29 is the last day of classes. Friday, Oct. 30 is set aside for teachers’ technical council meetings, Monday, Nov. 2 is a day without classes on the SEP calendar, and pupils return on Tuesday, Nov. 3, according to Infobae.
Mexico, work: Infobae reports that the Federal Labor Law does not list Nov. 1 or 2 among mandatory rest days, so each employer decides.
Mexico, banks: the calendar of the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), published in Mexico’s official gazette, lists Monday, Nov. 2 as a day bank branches close. ATMs, card payments and mobile banking keep working, Expansión and UnoTV report.

When and where is Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade?

Mexico City’s Gran Desfile de Día de Muertos starts on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. local time and travels along Paseo de la Reforma to the Zócalo, the city’s main square. The date, start time and route come from the city’s official tourism guide. Chilango, quoting the city’s Historic Center Authority, says entry is free and gives the full route: from the Glorieta de la Diana Cazadora along Reforma to Avenida Juárez, on past Eje Central and along 5 de Mayo to the Zócalo. Infobae estimates that the parade will take about four and a half hours, ending between 6:30 and 7 p.m. local time.

Mexico City stays on UTC-6 all year, and US clocks are still on daylight time on Oct. 31. The table converts the 2 p.m. start into US time zones.

Time zone	Start
Mexico City	2 p.m.
Eastern (EDT)	4 p.m.
Central (CDT)	3 p.m.
Mountain (MDT)	2 p.m.
Arizona (MST)	1 p.m.
Pacific (PDT)	1 p.m.
Alaska (AKDT)	Noon
Hawaii (HST)	10 a.m.

What to expect this year:

Floats and figures: the city’s guide lists bands, dancers, mojigangas (giant papier-mâché figures) and dozens of huge floats, with pieces honoring singer Juan Gabriel, film director Emilio “El Indio” Fernández and the Red Queen of Palenque, plus lucha libre-themed vehicles and a UNICEF contingent, which Infobae says is new this year.
Tributes: Chilango, citing the city’s culture secretariat, lists “Amor Eterno: Juan Gabriel,” six papier-mâché figures up to 4 meters (about 13 feet) tall, along with a float for Fernández’s film María Candelaria and a float representing Pátzcuaro, Michoacán.
Getting around: expect street closures along the route. In 2025 the Metrobús closed stations on four lines for the parade, Infobae reported.

The parade itself is young. Mexico City first staged it in 2016, and the idea grew out of the 2015 James Bond film Spectre, which opened with a Day of the Dead parade through the city. Such a spectacle had never been part of the traditional celebrations, an Associated Press report published by The Hollywood Reporter noted at the time.

What else is happening in Mexico this year?

Mexico City’s Zócalo hosts a monumental ofrenda from Thursday, Oct. 29 through Monday, Nov. 2, and other cities and states run their own festivals. The Mexico City listings come from the city’s tourism guide:

Zócalo Ofrenda Monumental, Oct. 29–Nov. 2: this year’s centerpiece honors Posada’s Catrina with a 32-meter (about 105-foot) papier-mâché sculpture, alongside sawdust carpets, thousands of marigolds and free concerts. Expansión reports that the city government is seeking a Guinness World Record with the sculpture. The square’s decorative lighting stays up through Nov. 4.
Community ofrendas, Oct. 29–Nov. 2: 12 sites across the city, including the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco.
Chapultepec, Oct. 29–Nov. 4: the festival “La Puerta entre dos mundos” (The Door Between Two Worlds), with altars, music, dance and a nighttime drone show.
Paseo de la Reforma: a marigold fair with 140 growers from Tláhuac, Milpa Alta and Xochimilco runs through Nov. 1, and the “El Camino” light installation stays up through Nov. 8.
Mixquic, Oct. 31–Nov. 2: described by the guide as the city’s most traditional celebration, ending with La Alumbrada on the night of Nov. 2.

Elsewhere in Mexico:

Aguascalientes: Posada’s home state holds its Festival Cultural de Calaveras from Oct. 30 to Nov. 8, opening with the Desfile de Calaveras on Friday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. in the historic center. Many events are free, the state government says.
Michoacán: the state’s third Noche de Muertos week runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 2, with more than 700 activities, Excélsior reports.
Janitzio, Michoacán: the island’s cemetery, in the municipality of Pátzcuaro, is closed to tourists on Nov. 1 and 2 for repair work after a landslide beside it in August, La Crónica de Hoy reports. Island families can still hold their vigils there, and visitors can watch from a panoramic walkway and viewpoint. Michoacán’s tourism secretary, Roberto Monroy García, said the closure is temporary and the work should be finished by the end of 2026, El Congresista reports.

Already past this season: Mexico City’s monumental alebrijes parade (Oct. 17), its Day of the Dead night bike ride (Oct. 24) and the Mega Procesión de Catrinas (Oct. 25).

Where can you celebrate Day of the Dead in the US?

Several big US celebrations are still ahead, mostly on Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday, Nov. 1, and most of them are free. The dates and times below come from the organizers’ own pages and are local. Most US clocks fall back an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1.

Los Angeles: Gloria Molina Grand Park’s free community ofrendas are on view through Monday, Nov. 2, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., and the Noche de los Muertos closing celebration runs on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 3 to 7 p.m. No ticket is needed.
San Antonio: Pearl’s free Día de los Muertos week runs through Tuesday, Nov. 3, with a celebration in Pearl Park on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 5 to 9 p.m., featuring ofrendas by local artists, a community altar and live performances.
Albuquerque: the 34th South Valley Día de los Muertos Celebration and Marigold Procession is on Sunday, Nov. 1, with the parade at noon and the celebration from noon to 5 p.m. at the Westside Community Center, 1250 Isleta Blvd. SW.
San Diego: Fiesta de Reyes in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park keeps its free “Día de los Muertos – La Experiencia” displays up through Monday, Nov. 2.
Chicago: the National Museum of Mexican Art’s 40th annual Day of the Dead exhibition, “Where Memory Lives: 40 Years of Día de Muertos,” is free and runs through Nov. 29. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., so it is closed on Monday, Nov. 2. Gallery tours on Saturday, Oct. 31 are at 9:30 a.m. in English and 10:30 a.m. in Spanish.
Washington, D.C.: the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian holds a free Día de los Muertos celebration on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
New York: the same museum’s Heye Center holds its free celebration on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tucson: the All Souls Procession’s 37th All Souls Weekend comes after the holiday this year, from Friday, Nov. 6 to Sunday, Nov. 8.

Already past: the 27th Día de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles (Saturday, Oct. 24) and San Antonio’s Muertos Fest (Oct. 23–25).

Which Day of the Dead events were canceled this year?

At least three US events were canceled for 2026, with organizers citing immigration enforcement or the safety of their immigrant communities.

San Antonio, Woodlawn Lake Park: the lakeside festival, scheduled for Nov. 2 and in its 20th year, was canceled by its organizer, Planet K, which cited current political and economic challenges tied to immigration enforcement, KSAT and Texas Public Radio reported on Oct. 15. It is the festival’s second cancellation in two decades, after one during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Planet K said it hopes to return in 2027.
Fresno, California, Fresno Chaffee Zoo: the zoo canceled its Día de los Muertos event after consulting community partners, saying its immigrant community was top of mind. It is still marking the holiday with decorations, an art display from Arte Américas and two ofrendas, open from Oct. 27 through Nov. 2, where visitors may bring photos of loved ones or pets.
Asbury Park, New Jersey: organizers canceled this year’s festival, which had been set for Saturday, Nov. 7, saying in a social media post that they were concerned immigration enforcement officers could target the public event. They had discussed a smaller gathering with city officials and community members before deciding that any version posed too much risk, and they plan to bring the tradition back, News12 New Jersey reported on Oct. 24.

Other San Antonio celebrations, including the events at Pearl, are going ahead.

What could still change before Nov. 2?

Parade details, street closures and individual events can still change, and several US cancellations were announced only in October, so check the organizer’s page before you go. Most of the events listed here end by Monday, Nov. 2; a few run later, including Pearl (Nov. 3), Tucson’s All Souls Weekend (Nov. 6–8), Aguascalientes (Nov. 8) and the Chicago exhibition (Nov. 29).

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How we verified this

Pinned time. Every time-sensitive point on this page was last re-checked between 17:45 and 18:10 UTC on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, ending at 2:10 p.m. EDT (12:10 p.m. in Mexico City); nothing material had changed. Weekdays come from the 2026 calendar. Time conversions use the IANA time-zone database: Mexico City is on UTC-6 all year, and US daylight time ends at 2 a.m. local on Sunday, Nov. 1, so the Oct. 31 parade conversions use EDT, CDT, MDT and PDT.

Dates and the traditional calendar. The Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 calendar, the list of essential ofrenda items (including pan de muerto) and the marigold and bread meanings come from an article by Mexico’s agriculture ministry (SADER) dated Nov. 1, 2021. The Huasteca (Xantolo) and Cuanajo examples come from a Secretariat of Culture press release of Oct. 31, 2014. That release says the dead stay until Nov. 29, which it calls St. Andrew’s Day, although the saint’s feast falls on Nov. 30, so this page says only late November. The Mixquic cycle and the cemetery etiquette come from Mexico City’s official 2026 tourism guide. UNESCO’s element page gives the grouping of the dead by cause of death, age, sex and profession. A popular calendar circulating in Mexican media this week, which adds days for pets and other groups, is not used because it could not be traced to an official source and varies by region.

Meaning and origins. UNESCO’s page for the Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead gives the transitory-return wording, the 2003 proclamation, the 2008 inscription and the description of a fusion of pre-Hispanic rites and Catholic feasts; the Secretariat of Culture dates the proclamation to Nov. 7, 2003. The description of a celebration rather than a period of mourning is the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s and is attributed to it, alongside National Geographic’s love-and-respect wording and the INAH essay’s note that Nov. 1 and 2 are days of mourning for Christians. National Geographic’s explainer (last updated Oct. 27, 2025) supplies the thousands-of-years view and most of the tradition details. The opposing argument comes from an essay on INAH’s website by archaeologist Victor Joel Santos Ramírez (spelled as in the byline), which credits it to the late researcher Elsa Malvido. Both views are attributed, and this page does not rule on which is right.

Traditions. Ofrenda contents, sugar skulls, literary calaveras, grave cleaning in Mixquic and the Halloween comparison rest on National Geographic; the marigold path on the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s event pages; the Nahuatl-poetry meaning of the marigold on Mexico City’s tourism guide; and the Catrina’s history on National Geographic and El Universal, which agree on Posada’s Calavera Garbancera and Rivera’s 1947 mural. The Italian-missionary origin of sugar skulls is National Geographic’s alone. The Samhain detail is from the INAH essay.

Holidays, schools and banks. The US point rests on the Office of Personnel Management’s 2026 holiday list. School closures come from Infobae (Oct. 19, updated Oct. 26), citing the SEP calendar, and cover only preschool, primary and secondary pupils at public and SEP-registered private schools. The labor-law point is Infobae’s alone; the statute itself was not read. The Nov. 2 bank closure rests on the CNBV calendar published in Mexico’s official gazette, as reported by Expansión and UnoTV on Dec. 10, 2025, and repeated by several outlets this week.

Mexico City parade. The date, 2 p.m. start, Reforma-to-Zócalo route and featured pieces come from the city’s official tourism guide. The Diana Cazadora start and the Avenida Juárez, Eje Central and 5 de Mayo legs come from Chilango (Oct. 19), which quotes the Historic Center Authority saying entry is free, and Infobae (Oct. 21), which cites the city government for the route and free entry. Infobae alone gives the four-and-a-half-hour estimate and says the UNICEF contingent is new; its 8 km route length and its name for one Reforma roundabout do not match the route and current street names, so neither is used. Float and broadcast details reported by single outlets that conflict with the city’s guide are left out. The 2016 origin story is from an Associated Press report by Mark Stevenson, published by The Hollywood Reporter on Nov. 1, 2016. Official street and transit closures for Oct. 31 were not in any report that could be read, so none are listed.

Other Mexico listings. The Zócalo, Chapultepec, Reforma, community ofrenda and Mixquic dates and the 32-meter Catrina height come from the city’s tourism guide. Expansión (Oct. 23) reports that the city government is seeking a Guinness World Record with the sculpture; no certified record had been reported when this page was checked, so none is claimed here. Aguascalientes rests on the state government’s Oct. 20 notice, and Michoacán’s festival week on Excélsior (Sept. 30) alone. The Janitzio closure rests on La Crónica de Hoy (Oct. 22) and El Congresista (Oct. 21), which quotes Michoacán’s tourism secretary on the timeline, and matches reports from several national outlets through Oct. 28. A few headlines say Janitzio will open for the holiday; the reports that could be read describe the island as open to visitors while its cemetery is closed to tourists.

US events and cancellations. Every date and time for US events still going ahead was read on the organizer’s own page and re-checked on Oct. 28: Grand Park, Pearl, Muertos y Marigolds, Fiesta de Reyes, the National Museum of Mexican Art (event page and homepage hours), the Smithsonian’s two event pages and the All Souls Procession. Hollywood Forever and Muertos Fest, both past, were also read on their own pages. Where a news listing differed (one San Diego listing ends Old Town’s displays on Nov. 1), the organizer’s Nov. 2 date is used, and events that appear only in news guides are left out. The dates of the canceled Woodlawn Lake and Asbury Park events come from news reports rather than organizer pages: KSAT and Texas Public Radio (both Oct. 15) quote the Woodlawn Lake organizer’s statement, and News12 New Jersey (Oct. 24) quotes the Asbury Park organizers’ Instagram statement, matching headlines from NJ.com, the Asbury Park Press and Hoodline. The Fresno item rests on the community update on the zoo’s own website.

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