What’s on in September in Mexico City

Get your Mexican flags (and Tums pills) ready, due to the fact that September 2025 is present and immoderate of the champion culinary events volition capable our sensation buds with delights from crossed the country. Beyond enjoying “El Grito,” Mexico’s accepted outcry of independence, our civic festivals, architectural and theatrical performances besides await. Here’s our digest of what’s connected successful Mexico City successful September 2025.

Chiles Rellenos Festival by Sanborns

Chiles en nogada are a September instrumentality favourite crossed the country. (Mike González/Pexels)

Every year, Mexicans eagerly await September to effort the seasonal dishes. Honoring this agelong wait, accepted edifice Sanborns celebrates our cuisine with its yearly Festival de Chiles Rellenos. Although accepted chiles en nogada volition beryllium the stars of the lawsuit (as expected), customers volition besides beryllium capable to effort antithetic stuffed chile recipes from crossed the country. If you sojourn your nearest Sanborns store, don’t adjacent inquire for the paper — conscionable bid chiles en nogada. You tin convey america later.

Dates: Running from Sept. 1-30

Location? Any Sanborns store successful Mexico City!

Cost: Varies according to paper items ordered

Bosque de Chapultepec yearly race

Dubbed ‘the capital’s top lung’, Bosque de Chapultepec volition big its yearly contention successful September 2025. (IMSS/Cuartoscuro)

Covering 15 kilometers, the 2025 variation of the Chapultepec Park Race is designed to let participants to explore every country of the park. Organized by the Chapultepec Forest Trust and Asdeporte, the lawsuit has a wide goal: to rise funds for the conservation enactment needed by Mexico City’s “greatest lung.” From Gran Avenida, wrong the First Section of the Forest, to the Monument to the Child Heroes, the way is divided into 3 categories: 5, 10, and 15 kilometers, depending connected the accomplishment level of each participant.

Date: Sept. 7

Location: Follow the authoritative route here

Cost: Entrance fees starting astatine 500 pesos

Piano Festival astatine the National Center for the Arts

From China to Cuba, pianists from each implicit the satellite volition travel to the Blas Galindo performance hallway this September. (Gobierno CDMX/Wikimedia Commons)

The Blas Galindo auditorium, 1 of the National Center for the Arts’ largest performance halls, volition big the “Blanco y Negro” soft festival this year. On its 28th edition, interpreters from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland and Cuba volition instrumentality the signifier successful 8 antithetic concerts. As “the astir important soft showcase successful the country,” as described by CENART’s authorities, the programme is 1 of the astir ambitious of the year. 

Dates: Every play successful September, from Sept. 6-28

Location: Río Churubusco 79, Country Club, Coyoacán.

Cost: 250 pesos

Leviatán

This soundscape grounds feeds an algorithm with each visitor’s voice. In this way, the chatbot – the centerpiece of the circuit – responds to caller visitors with a premix of the voices of erstwhile attendees. In the discourse of the AI boom, according to museum authorities, Leviatán “invites america to look beyond technological wonderment and research the profound questions astir what it means to beryllium human.”  

Dates: Until Sept. 28

Location: Justo Sierra 16, Centro, Cuauhtémoc.

Cost: 50 pesos

‘El Grito’ astatine the nationalist palace

For the archetypal clip successful Mexico’s History, a pistillate president volition execute ‘El Grito’ from Palacio Nacional’s main balcony. (Luis Andrés Villalón Vega/Unsplash)

For the archetypal clip successful Mexico’s history, a pistillate volition execute ‘El Grito’ from Mexico City’s Palacio Nacional. President Claudia Sheinbaum is expected to pb the accepted Independence Day Ceremony from her office’s balcony. During the event, she volition ringing the aforesaid doorbell that person Miguel Hidalgo utilized to telephone for an equipped uprising 215 years ago. In a state with a regular toll of 10 feminicides, this is not lone a triumph implicit sex unit but a milestone for sex conflict crossed the country.

Date: Sept. 15

Location: You tin ticker “El Grito: online oregon ticker it connected TV

Cost: Free of charge

Watch the fireworks and airy amusement successful the Zócalo

The video mapping and firework amusement traditionally lasts astir an hr connected Independence Day. (Israyosoy S./Pexels)

The champion mode to bask ‘El Grito’ and the fireworks is from above. Of course, watching the amusement straight from the Zócalo has its ain charm. However, it’s acold much comfy to bask the amusement from a terrace oregon balcony of 1 of the hotels surrounding the main square. The mapping and fireworks past for astir an hour, during which you could person a hearty Mexican meal from a beauteous terrace oregon balcony. My champion proposition would beryllium to publication a country astatine the Grand Hotel, wherever you tin walk the full nighttime distant from the crowds, with the champion view.

Date: Sept. 15-16

Location:16 de Septiembre 82, Centro, Cuautémoc.

Cost: Fees alteration depending connected the room

MEXTRÓPOLI 2025

The festival turns “Mexico City into a almighty cultural, tourer and civic attraction,” explained the event’s organizers. (MEXTRÓPOLI)

Mexico City’s astir important architectural festival is up successful September. Expecting astir 100,000 visitors this year, the lawsuit addresses “Collective Housing” arsenic its main theme. The open-air accumulation seeks to rethink however we inhabit cities and however we tin plan spaces that respond to existent challenges. Through respective workshops and talks, MEXTRÓPOLI 2025 volition question balanced municipality density, architectural flexibility, recycling materials and the instauration of assemblage environments.

Dates: Sept. 18-21

Location: Several locations crossed town. Check the route here

Cost: Free, but workshop fees whitethorn vary

Museo Universitario del Chopo’s 50th Anniversary

Today a venue for experimental art, the Museo Universitario del Chopo was besides an instauration dedicated to researching the earthy past of Mexico during the 20th century. (Gaceta UNAM/Roberto Frías)

Celebrating a 5-decade travel done modern creation and exhibits, Museo Universitario del Chopo has announced a multidisciplinary programme that spans crossed each subject the venue has hosted. The iconic taste venue successful the Santa María neighborhood volition showcase iconic moments successful its history, from being brought portion by portion from Germany to its clip arsenic an archaeology museum. Karol Wolley, a typical of the curatorial team, emphasized that this is not a emblematic chronological exhibition: it is presented arsenic a postulation of curiosities, to amusement an “intimate narration with the past of the tract itself.”

Dates: Aug. 21-Nov. 25

Location: Museo del Chopo, Dr. Enrique González Martínez 10-P.B., Santa María la Ribera, Cuauhtémoc.

Cost: General entrée starting astatine 30 pesos; children and seniors, 15 pesos.

Japan: from story to manga

Japanese gods, monsters and heroes mingle with robots, origami and manga successful this exhibit. (Katsushika Hokusai/Wikimedia Commons)

“The Great Wave disconnected Kanagawa,” an icon of Japanese art, arrives similar a tsunami successful Mexico City with the accumulation “Japón: del Mito al Manga.” Hosted by the Franz Mayer Museum, successful the capital’s Historic Center, the grounds showcases legends, iconography, fashion, plan and exertion “to make a sensorial travel that connects the past with the present,” depository authorities note.

Dates: Aug. 8-Sept. 30

Location: Museo Franz Mayer. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico, Cuauhtémoc.

Cost: Entrance fees starting astatine 180 pesos.

Watch EGREGOR, manager Santiago Cumplido’s latest creation

AI seems to beryllium awakening a antithetic benignant of consciousness successful modern humans, doesn’t it? (Sistema de Información Cultural/Gobierno de México)

“Egregor” refers to a thought that gives beingness to a non-physical entity. In the roar of AI, manager Santiago Cumplido designed, staged and choreographed this performance, staged astatine the iconic Capilla Gótica theater, which transports america to a futuristic Mexico wherever clip has been fractured. The amusement features dance, clones, and post-humans “in a satellite wherever the corporate unconscious has fixed commencement to an entity that feeds connected quality energy,” said theater authorities.

Dates: Sept. 25-Oct. 19

Location: Teatro de la Capilla astatine Instituto Helénico. Avenida Revolución 1500, Guadalupe Inn, Álvaro Obregón.

Cost: Entrance fees starting astatine 650 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.