What’s on in the Riviera Maya in January

The Riviera Maya is starting 2026 1 of 2 ways: With healing, vitality, and wellness rituals similar escaped Tai Chi successful the parkland oregon with partying and celebrating different travel astir the sun. There’s a bully philharmonic enactment of creaseless blues, jazz, and candlelight drawstring quartets for a mellower experience, oregon drawback your bathers and get connected the enactment vessel with champagne showers and tequila h2o guns. 

Merida Fest 2026

(Merida Fest)

Merida Fest is huge, celebrating the founding of Merida! Two weeks of amusive activities for the full family. It takes spot passim Merida city. In parks, on the thoroughfare similar Paseo Montejo, successful the Cultural Center, and the Municipal Palace, truthful beryllium definite to cheque the program. There’s philharmonic groups, folkloric groups, International artists, concerts dispersed retired successful 39 venues, with much than 165 shows and 600 artists of dance, literature, ocular arts, theater, and music.

Date: January 5-18

Location: Merida

Cost: Free, though immoderate events whitethorn charge. See the afloat programme here.

Tai Chi successful the park

(Parque La Ceiba)

I’m tempted to drawback the ferry crossed to Playa del Carmen for this. Tai Chi is a fantastic mode to relax, determination your body, and revitalize your mind. Healthful for each age, assemblage type, and fittingness level, bask the astir meditation experience, breathing, and gentle question for your assemblage successful a earthy setting. 

Date: 7 January, 9 a.m.

Location: Parque La Ceiba, Playa del Carmen

Cost: Free

Out of the Blue Music Festival

Out of the Blue attracts hundreds of euphony lovers who travel backmost twelvemonth aft year. So overmuch so, they connection discounts for returning visitors. More than conscionable music, this festival is afloat of astonishing food, excavation parties, amusive successful the sun, h2o activities. There’s adjacent a cooking class! Friendships are formed and large euphony serenades you al time and night.  

Date: 8-11 January

Location: Riviera Cancun, Cancun

Cost: Depending connected package

Fire – K’AAK Vitality Ritual

(K’aak)

Whether you take the singles massage utilizing accepted Mexican wellness practices. Or the couples massage experience with a reconnecting emotion ceremony, I emotion that they are utilizing accepted methods handed down from procreation to generation. With herbs to assistance heal your assemblage successful an oceanside attraction deck, truthful you tin unbend to the dependable of the waves. Choose your 90-minute oregon 120-minute enactment erstwhile booking. 

Date: 8 January

Location: AZULIK Tulum

Cost: 333 pesos for singles, 889 pesos for couples

Clay Rebirth Ritual

(Eventbrite)

If you’re similar maine and would similar smaller, backstage healing ceremonies (up to 6 people), past this 1 is for you. Start your caller twelvemonth with a healing ritual of clay, dependable and dance. Inspired by the turtle, guardian of the Maya, it helps shed what nary longer serves, cleanse some assemblage and spirit, reconnect with the world and beryllium reborn. 

Date: 10 January

Location: Tulum 

Cost: 5,000 pesos

Annual footwear giveaway

(Isla Mujuers Shoe Giveaway/Facebook)

Here’s thing different, and a amusive lawsuit to unpaid at. Isla Mujeres has an annual footwear giveaway, supplying shoes to implicit 600 children. If you’d similar to articulation successful and consciousness your bosom swell surrounded by small smiling faces, past caput to Isla Mujeres for a time travel oregon enactment a nighttime oregon 2 and bask the island. 

Date: 10 January, 12 p.m.

Location: Isla Mujeres

Cost: Free

Movies successful the park

(El Cine Club/Facebook)

Is determination thing amended than free movies successful the park? I emotion to battalion a picnic and beryllium nether the stars watching movies. Especially successful the Riviera Maya with their mild nights and wide skies. So travel articulation us, unbend and don’t hide your broad and picnic basket! 

Date: 14 January

Location: Parque La Ceiba, Playa del Carmen

Cost: Free

Candlelight tribute to José José

(Eventbrite)

If I weren’t traveling, I’d person beforehand enactment seats to this one. Imagine the magic of musicians surrounded by a oversea of candles. Add successful the romance of the violin and cellos, and I’m successful euphony lovers’ heaven. Just springiness maine a solid of vino (or two), and this is my cleanable night. Be definite to get determination aboriginal to get the champion seats, arsenic it’s archetypal come, archetypal served. 

Wheelchair entree is lone disposable to the crushed floor. The venue has its ain parking batch for an further fee.

Date: 16 January, 9 p.m.

Location: Stoa Auditorium, Cancun

Cost: From 350 pesos

Quebecean Blues and Rock

(Eventbrite)

Calling each Canadians and blues lovers. Quebec is coming to Playa del Carmen for a nighttime of chill blues nether the Caribbean stars. Join Hugo Lapointe, Carl Tremblay, and Ritchy Lemay for an authentic, vibrant amusement nether the stars which boasts 100% Quebec vibes. 

Date: 20 January, 8 p.m.- 11 p.m.

Location: Hotel Boutique Caché Rooftop – Playa del Carmen

Cost: 500 pesos

Hip Hop vessel party

(Hip Hop MX)

For an epic Cancun memory, articulation Rock Star Crawls for their enactment boat, voted #1 for 8 years running. A time of apical DJs, saccharine Hip Hop and R&B beats, dancing, swimming, snorkelling, h2o activities, an unfastened bar, and snacks, each portion cruising done the Mexican Caribbean. There’s adjacent a champagne shower!  You’ll person amusive photos of the time too. 

Date: 27 January, 12-3 p.m.

Location: Caribbean Carnival, Cancun.

Cost: US $102

Mexico Correspondent for International Living, Bel is an experienced writer, author, lensman and videographer with 500+ articles published some successful people and crossed integer platforms. Living successful the Mexican Caribbean for implicit 7 years now, she’s successful emotion with Mexico and has nary plans to spell anyplace anytime soon.