The Best Season for a Machu Picchu Elopement
A clear, busy dry season against a green, quieter wet one, with the Inca Trail closed each February. What each window gives the citadel and the Andes.
You plan Machu Picchu around your calendar and hope for clear skies.
The Andes have a dry season and a wet one, and they are genuinely different citadels.
Machu Picchu has a dry season and a wet season, and the choice is clear-and-busy against green-and-quiet.
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May through September is the dry season: clear skies, the best odds of an unclouded citadel, and reliable sun, but the most visitors and the hardest permits to secure. It is the dependable window, and it needs booking months ahead.
The dry season
May through September is the dry season: clear skies, the best odds of an unclouded citadel, and reliable sun, but the most visitors and the hardest permits to secure. It is the dependable window, and it needs booking months ahead.
The wet season
November through March brings cloud and afternoon rain but a green, dramatic landscape, mist drifting through the ruins, and far fewer people. The mornings often stay clear, though the Inca Trail closes each February for maintenance. I plan a day that works with the weather.
Pick clear-and-busy or green-and-quiet, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I plan the trip around the season, secure the permits early, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the season decides how much of the citadel you share with a crowd.
