The September week when heads of state fill Turtle Bay for the General Assembly's general debate and the rest of Manhattan schedules itself around them.
Una página de evento le indica cuándo tiene lugar (con el grado de certeza sobre la fecha), por qué es relevante, cómo se percibe la semana que lo rodea, cuándo conviene llegar y partir, dónde se aloja la gente, cómo funciona el acceso y qué eventos le preceden y le siguen en el circuito.
High-level week is the annual opening of the United Nations General Assembly's general debate, when the heads of state and government of the member states address the Assembly in turn from the podium in Turtle Bay. The formal business is the debate and the summits scheduled around it; the practical consequence is that most of the world's governments, and the diplomatic, philanthropic, financial and press apparatus that follows them, are in one square mile of Manhattan for seven days.
What has grown around that core is now larger than it. Climate Week NYC, run since 2009 by the non-profit Climate Group, occupies the same days — 20 to 27 September in 2026 — and its organisers describe more than 100,000 people at several hundred events across the city. Foundations, development banks, universities and corporations schedule their own summits into the week, and Midtown ballrooms are booked out for them.
01Por qué es relevante
No other week concentrates this many governments in one city, and the consequence is that a great deal of business with nothing to do with the United Nations is scheduled to catch people who are already there.
02La semana en torno al evento
Midtown East becomes difficult and stays that way. The police impose frozen zones around the headquarters and the delegation hotels, First and Second Avenues and stretches of the FDR Drive close repeatedly for motorcades, and crossing the East Fifties on foot is often faster than any vehicle.
03Cuándo llegar
Arrive Sunday and be in place before Monday morning, when the first summits convene and the road closures begin.
04Dónde alojarse
Delegations take the Midtown East hotels around the United Nations and along Park and Lexington; those blocks are inside the security perimeter, which means secure but slow.
05Acceso y hospitalidad
The General Assembly Hall is closed to the public during high-level week; access is limited to accredited delegations, mission personnel, accredited non-governmental organisations and credentialed press, and headquarters tours are suspended. The general debate is broadcast free on UN Web TV and archived.
06Dónde tiene lugar la actividad social
The visible week happens in Midtown hotel ballrooms, in the Ford Foundation and Asia Society auditoriums, in university halls at NYU and Columbia, and in the lobbies of the hotels where delegations are billeted.
07Cómo llegar
08Aspectos prácticos
09Historia
The General Assembly first met in London in January 1946 and moved to New York the following year, settling into the Turtle Bay headquarters when it opened in 1952. The surrounding week grew from the 1990s as the Assembly began scheduling summits alongside the debate, and accelerated after the 2015 adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.
10Quién está ahí
Heads of state and government and their delegations; foreign ministers and permanent representatives; UN agency and multilateral bank leadership; foundation and non-governmental organisation heads; development-finance and impact investors; corporate sustainability teams; climate scientists and campaigners; and several thousand accredited journalists.
Qué más está ocurriendo
Buscador de solapamientos →Mismo destino, mismos días
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21 SepNew York · United States · Sociedad Metropolitan Opera Opening NightNotable
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23 Sep → Sep 26, 2027New York · United States · Arte The Armory ShowNotable
Al alcance
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30 Sep → Oct 3, 2027Newport · United States · Automoción Audrain Newport Concours & Motor WeekNotable
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16 Sep → Sep 19, 2027Newport · United States · Náutica Newport International Boat ShowRegional
El circuito continúa
Fechas registradas
| Edición | Fechas | Estado |
|---|---|---|
| 2027 · 82nd session high-level week | · 82nd session high-level week | PrevistoNot yet published. Under the Assembly's rules the 82nd session will open on Tuesday 14 September 2027, and in the years when the session has opened that late — 2021 and 2022 — the general debate began the following Tuesday. The estimate therefore places high-level week on 21-27 September 2027; if the two-week interval used from 2023 to 2026 is applied instead, it would begin on 28 September. |
| 2026 · 81st session high-level week | · 81st session high-level week | ConfirmadoThe 81st session opened on Tuesday 8 September 2026 under the theme Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation. High-level week runs 22-28 September, with the general debate from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 September and concluding on Monday 28 September. Climate Week NYC runs alongside it from 20 to 27 September. |
Eventos relacionados
Fuentes
- General Assembly High-level Week 2026, United Nations official accedido 6 September 2026
- United Nations General Assembly, United Nations official accedido 6 September 2026
- Climate Week NYC, Climate Group official accedido 6 September 2026