Vintage cars, salsa and the Malecón. Here is when to go, what a day costs on site and what to see, then Okela composes your itinerary hour by hour.

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When to visit Havana

Best months: January, February, March, April, November and December.

What to see in Havana

1. Vieille Havane (Plaza Vieja, Cathédrale)
   Havana's historic centre is a maze of colonial lanes where pastel facades, some peeling and some freshly restored, wrap around squares that each have their own character.
2. Malecón
   The Malecón is Havana's great seafront promenade, a sea wall running eight kilometres where the city comes face to face with the ocean.
3. Capitole
   Its dome is visible from far across central Havana, and the Capitolio recalls the ambition of the 1920s, when the city wanted a building worthy of a capital.
4. Musée de la Révolution
   The museum fills the former presidential palace, an early twentieth-century building whose opulent interiors contrast with the revolutionary story told inside.
5. Plaza de la Revolución
   This vast esplanade shows you the political scale of Havana, and the buildings around it make you feel small.
6. El Morro & La Cabaña
   These two fortresses on the eastern shore of the bay once guarded the harbor entrance during the Spanish colonial period.
7. Fábrica de Arte Cubano
   Inside a former cooking oil factory in Vedado, galleries, stages, a cinema and bars share one roof.
8. Callejón de Hamel
   This alley in Centro Habana is an open-air gallery created by the painter Salvador González Escalona and devoted entirely to Afro-Cuban culture.

A sample itinerary for Havana, three days

Composed by Okela from the places in its database, with times. Yours takes your dates, pace and group into account.

Budget

Expect about €83 per person per day on site (accommodation, meals, transport and visits), depending on the comfort you choose. Okela shows the price of every step of your itinerary.

My Havana itinerary, hour by hour

Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.