Best season to travel to Cuba

Mamoncillo Season

Taste Cuban mamoncillos—your most sour tropical experience

Best time: July–October

Mamoncillo Season
Mamoncillo Season

Visit Cuba for the time of mamoncillos harvest season and taste the most delicious and fresh Spanish limes. Watch the locals gather harvest using ladders and special picking poles to get the most ripe fruit undamaged. Mamoncillos is one of the most iconic Cuban fruit that you may taste from late July to October. It has a green peel and a juicy flesh. In order to eat it correctly you need to suck out the juice out of the pulp.

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