💀where to be for day of the dead this year

noon start at Chapultepec, ends hours later at the Zócalo. get to Reforma early, the crowd at the finish is a wall

goes up before the parade and stays most of november. go on a weekday morning if you want to actually see it

closest to what this looked like before the parade. night of nov 1, candles everywhere. get there before dark, trust me on this

brass band street processions through a different barrio each night starting late october. ask your hotel which one's on, it moves around

families canoe out to the island cemetery the night of nov 1. go by early evening for a boat, it gets loud logistically once it's dark

cash only, obviously, and go for the cempasúchil not the plastic stuff by the metro exit