What’s on in Mexico City in February

Love is successful the air. But truthful is art, ballet and tamales successful Mexico City. After overcoming the dreaded January slope, February arrives successful the superior with the champion of the creation scene, immersive experiences, and, of course, the Chinese New Year. This caller lunar cycle, according to Chinese astrologers, those nether the motion of the equine volition airy an auspicious occurrence wrong them, and the superior is ready! Continue speechmaking to find retired each astir what’s connected successful Mexico City successful February 2026.

Tamal Fest 2026

If Iztapalapa feels excessively acold away, determination volition beryllium a akin variation successful Colonia Roma arsenic well! (Crisanta Espinosa Aguilar/Cuartoscuro)

February successful Mexico City tastes similar tamales owed to the solemnisation of Candlemas Day, oregon Día de la Candelaria, arsenic it is referred to locally. So, if you got the babe Jesus figurine successful your Three Kings’ Day bread, get ready: Tamal Fest 2026 volition beryllium your accidental to bargain the champion tamales of the season. For its 15th edition, the Iztapalapa borough aims to observe the culinary contented and endowment of its section producers, featuring 50 exhibitors from assorted parts of Mexico.

Dates: Jan. 30 to Feb. 2

Location: Macroplaza de la Alcaldía, Barrio San Lucas, Iztapalapa

Cost: Free

Zona Maco 2026

Zona Maco is the astir important creation just successful Latin America and positions Mexico City arsenic a taste epicenter for modern creation proposals. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Zona Maco Art Week returns successful afloat unit to Mexico City this February. As Latin America’s astir important taste lawsuit for modern art, its 22nd variation brings unneurotic much than 228 galleries from 26 countries successful a azygous venue: the Citibanamex Center. The Selection Committee curated a divers scope of formats, including painting, sculpture, installation, video and emerging technologies. This year, antiques volition adjacent beryllium connected display, acknowledgment to the caller motorboat of Zona Maco Antiques Salon, co-curated by collectors Mario Uvence and Alfonso Miranda Márquez.

Dates: Feb. 4-8

Location: Centro Citibanamex. Av. Del Conscripto 311, Lomas de Sotelo, Miguel Hidalgo

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 450 pesos

Alegría y Olivo Fest 2026

‘Alegría’ is the sanction we locally usage for amaranth, particularly erstwhile it is utilized to marque accepted sweets. (Juan Pablo Zamora Pérez/Cuartoscuro)

With amaranth, 1 of the emblematic plants successful the mentation of Mexican sweets, arsenic its prima ingredient, the 2026 Feria de la Alegría opens its doors. Palanquetas, churritos, obleas and different Mexican confectionery delicacies volition beryllium featured astatine the event. With Plaza Quirino Mendoza arsenic the setting, successful the confederate borough of Xochimilco, attendees volition person the accidental to purchase sweets from section vendors. In summation to sampling these accepted sweets, visitors to the 53rd variation of the just tin bask escaped concerts and exhibitions of amaranth-themed crafts.

Dates: Jan. 31 to Feb. 15

Location: Plaza Quirino Mendoza, Santiago Tulyehualco, Xochimilco

Cost: Free

Watch the Black Swan astatine Chapultepec

This play promises to beryllium “intense, elegant, and almighty successful 1 of Mexico’s astir iconic venues,” organizers said successful an Instagram post. (Nitzarindani Vega/El Cisne Negro via Instagram)

A modern imaginativeness of Black Swan arrives astatine the esplanade of Chapultepec Castle this month. The open-air show volition tally from Feb. 12 to March 8 this year, with shows connected Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. To marque the astir of your experience, effort arriving 45 minutes early. Remember! Access is connected foot, and the locomotion to Chapultepec Castle takes betwixt 15 and 30 minutes from the parking lot. Also, wearing a airy overgarment is recommended — wintertime nights successful Mexico City tin get chilly.

Dates: Feb. 12 to March 8

Location: Explanada del Castillo de Chapultepec. Av. Heroico Colegio Militar 172, Bosque de Chapultepec I Secc., Miguel Hidalgo

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 1,200 pesos

‘Enlightenment’: ‘The Four Seasons’

State-of-the-art projections and video mapping bring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to beingness successful a unsocial immersive acquisition (Eonarium/Fever)

Inspired by the enactment of the large maestro Vivaldi, the immersive show radical Eonarium presents “Enlightenment,” a spectacular airy and dependable video mapping show. For 30 minutes, attendees volition acquisition the warmth of spring, the vigor of summer, the chill breeze of autumn and the icy clasp of winter, each represented successful “The Four Seasons.” Through immersive images that representation the interior of the historical Sagrada Familia Church, successful the bosom of the Roma neighborhood, this acquisition is designed for the full household to enjoy.

Dates: Feb. 13-28

Location: Iglesia de la Sagrada Familia. Puebla 144, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 210 pesos. Buy yours here!

Chinese New Year Celebrations 2026

Set amidst the lush greenish spaces of CENART, the New Year’s activities volition bring a sensation of China to Mexico. (Edgar Negrete Lira/Cuartoscuro)

There’s perchance thing much breathtaking successful February than the Chinese New Year celebrations astatine CENART. This year, successful collaboration with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China successful Mexico, the venue volition big a traditional-style festival featuring dances, martial arts, workshops and exhibitions. In summation to offering a unsocial culinary experience, visitors tin enactment successful workshops and be classical theatrical performances. This is an implicit indispensable this month!

Dates: Feb. 14, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Location: CENART. Av. Río Churubusco 79, Churubusco Country Club, Coyoacán

Cost: Free 

Mystika: An Immersive Spiritual Journey

Mystika is “a travel done light, photography and interior silence,” said lawsuit organizers. (Pepe Soho/Mystika/Fever)

If you’re looking to instrumentality your peculiar idiosyncratic connected an immersive acquisition this period of emotion and friendship, Mystika is precisely what you’re looking for. With 8 rooms, a assemblage featuring implicit 45 large-format photographs, and 3 animated video walls, this acquisition takes visitors connected a travel done the enactment of Mexican lensman Pepe Soho. Following his untimely decease successful October 2025, Mystika aims to wage tribute to his profound imaginativeness of Mexican quality and biodiversity.

Dates: All February

Location: Torre Cuarzo. Avenida Paseo de la Reforma 26, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 420 pesos. Get yours here.

Electric Daisy Carnival

Avoid FOMO astatine each costs — bring your Mexican sweetheart to EDC this year! (EDC)

Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) returns to Mexico City this February with a bang. Electronic euphony giants similar Tao, Rossi and Alesso volition articulation different world-class DJs astatine the 2026 variation of the festival. According to the organizers, this twelvemonth volition diagnostic “pulse-pumping attractions, immersive creation and breathtaking fireworks.” In summation to the airy shows, implicit the people of 3 days, attendees volition person 8 stages to fulfill their philharmonic cravings and creation their heads off.

Dates: Feb. 21-23

Location: Torre Cuarzo. Avenida Paseo de la Reforma 26, Juárez, Cuauhtémoc

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 420 pesos. Tickets are disposable here. 

Omakase astatine Peco Peco

“Omakase was invented successful a clip earlier refrigeration technology,” explains the owner, “that’s wherefore the authorities of the ingredients changed regular and hourly.” (Peco Peco Restaurante Japonés)

Transport your valentine to Kyoto with this culinary acquisition prepared by Chef Kazuma Ejiri, a postgraduate of Sushi Labo College, who volition service a 15-course tasting paper featuring the drawback of the day. Omakase translates to “I’ll permission it up to you,” a polite Japanese operation signifying a lawsuit entrusting the cook to prime and service a meal. That’s why, says proprietor Leslie Luján, “Omakase is simply a declaration of implicit trust.”

Dates: All February 

Location: Peco Peco. Eugenia 732, Del Valle Centro, Benito Juárez

Cost: 1,000 pesos per person. Book your omakase here!

UNAM’s Kite Festival

The UNAM Kite Festival is simply a wide kite-flying event, followed by a kite contention and accumulation successful collaboration with the Museum of Popular Art (MAP). In its 19th edition, the accumulation pays tribute to the UNAM Central Library for its 70th anniversary. Therefore, the winning kites indispensable beryllium inspired by the architecture, murals and taste value of this halfway of knowledge. Imagine a kite inspired by a Siqueiros mural? Contestants person until Feb. 5 to taxable their designs. Don’t miss the deadline!

Dates: From Feb. 21 to April 5

Location: Museo de Arte Popular (MAP). Revillagigedo 11, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc

Cost: Tickets starting astatine 60 pesos

Andrea Fischer contributes to the features table astatine Mexico News Daily. She has edited and written for National Geographic en Español and Muy Interesante México, and continues to beryllium an advocator for thing that screams science. Or yoga. Or both.