Mexico, Pampanga festival calendar
From Mexico Day in April to the Christmas Lubenas: when Mexico celebrates, and what happens.
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Discover Pampanga Editors · October 2026
Mexico keeps a full calendar of feasts.
- April 24: Mexico Day, the anniversary of the town and parish founded in 1581.
- May: the Mais Festival for the town's corn growers.
- May 4: the Feast of Santa Monica, the town fiesta.
- September 4: the Feast of the Virgen de la Consolacion y Correa, with blessed cinctures.
- September 10: the Sanikulas Festival, when San Nicolas cookies are blessed and shared.
- December 14 to 24: Lubenas Pascu, nine nights of lanterns and decorated carrozas before Christmas.
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Travel Guides
Where to stay near Mexico, Pampanga
Mexico has one budget hotel on Jose Abad Santos Avenue; San Fernando's hotels are minutes away.
Getting Around
How to get to Mexico, Pampanga
Mexico sits just north of San Fernando: NLEX exits, jeepneys from San Fernando and buses along Jose Abad Santos Avenue.
Things to do nearby
Attractions
Mexico Public Market
Town market on Jose Abad Santos Avenue in Parian, in the heart of Mexico's old commercial district.
Attractions
Maximino Hizon Monument
Monument to General Maximino Hizon, Mexico's revolutionary hero who died in exile in Guam in 1901.
Attractions
Bale Mi (Sandico Ancestral House)
The Sandico family's 1827 colonial house in Parian, now an events venue open Monday to Saturday.
Where to eat nearby
Bakeries
Dandy's San Nicolas Cookies
Mexico bakery known for San Nicolas cookies, buttery arrowroot shortbread pressed with the image of the saint.
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Kusinang Matua
Atching Lillian Borromeo's reservation-only heirloom Kapampangan kitchen in her ancestral home in Mexico.
Where to stay nearby
Budget Stays
Hotel Sogo Mexico, Pampanga
Budget short-stay hotel of the Hotel Sogo chain on Jose Abad Santos Avenue, across from SM Pampanga.