What's on
Festivals, races, and cultural moments worth planning a trip around, by month. Dates read confirmed where the organizer has published them, and expected where we've projected the recurrence. Always verify before booking.
2027 ▸
165 events upcoming for Witness / Attend.
July 2026
Salalah Tourism Festival
Salalah · Oman
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Held through the Khareef monsoon each summer, roughly mid-July to late August, on the Ittin plain outside Salalah. In 2025 the festival ran 15 July to 31 August; the 2026 and 2027 editions are expected to follow a similar mid-July to late-August window within the wider Khareef season of about 21 June to 21 September.
Dates & details →Yasaka-jinja Shrine / Gion Matsuri Yamaboko Rengokai
Kyoto · Japan
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Spans July, with the grand processions on July 17 and 24.
Dates & details →Fiestas de Santiago Apostol
Loiza · Puerto Rico
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Held each year in Loiza in late July around the fixed feast of Saint James the Apostle (Santiago Apostol) on 25 July, with masked vejigante processions traditionally on 25, 26 and 27 July and about ten days of bomba, food and religious events. Community and religious festival with no central ticket office. Upcoming: 25 to 27 July 2026 for the main processions; the dates recur to the 25 July feast each year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Mostar
Mostar · Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The traditional bridge-diving competition falls on the last Sunday of July.
Dates & details →Osun-Osogbo Festival
Osogbo · Nigeria
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Held annually over about two weeks in late July and early August, culminating in the Arugba procession to the Osun river on the final Friday. The 2026 festival ran 27 July to 7 August; the 2027 edition is expected in the same late-July to early-August window.
Dates & details →PANAFEST and Emancipation Day
Cape Coast · Ghana
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Emancipation Day is commemorated around 1 August every year at the Cape Coast and Elmina castles; the PANAFEST Pan-African festival runs alongside it every two years in odd-numbered years. Upcoming: Emancipation Day observances around 1 August 2026; the next full PANAFEST expected late July to early August 2027.
Dates & details →Cup Match
St. George's, Bermuda · Bermuda
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Held every year on the Thursday and Friday before the first Monday in August, the two-day public holiday alternating between St. George's and Somerset. Upcoming: 30 to 31 July 2026 and 29 to 30 July 2027.
Dates & details →Carriacou Regatta Festival
Carriacou · Grenada
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Held over Emancipation weekend at the start of August each year (the festival dates from 1965), with traditional Carriacou sloop and workboat races off Hillsborough and onshore string-band, Big Drum and quadrille celebrations. Upcoming: 31 July to 2 August 2026; expected late July to early August 2027.
Dates & details →August 2026
Witness / Attend in Sinj
Sinj · Croatia
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Held annually on a Sunday in early August, customarily the first Sunday.
Dates & details →Medeltidsveckan (Medieval Week)
Visby · Sweden
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Held once a year over eight days in early August in Visby on Gotland, staged since 1984 by the association Medeltidsveckan pa Gotland. The 2026 edition runs 2 to 9 August; the 2027 edition is expected in early August, in week 31 or 32. It repeats every year in early August.
Dates & details →Mount Hagen Cultural Show
Mount Hagen · Papua New Guinea
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Held on a weekend in mid-August each year, usually the third weekend, at Queen's Park in Mount Hagen.
Dates & details →Liechtenstein National Day (Staatsfeiertag)
Vaduz · Liechtenstein
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Held every year on 15 August, Liechtenstein's National Day, in and around Vaduz Castle and the capital's Stadtle. Upcoming: 15 August 2026 (confirmed); 15 August 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Siena
Siena · Italy
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Two races a year: July 2 and August 16.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Leskovac
Leskovac · Serbia
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Annual, the last week of August.
Dates & details →Umhlanga Reed Dance
Ludzidzini · Eswatini
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Held once a year in late August at the Ludzidzini royal residence, an eight-day national ceremony culminating in a main dance day that is a public holiday. Dates are set by the Swazi royal household from ancestral astrology and announced only weeks ahead. The 2026 main day is expected on or around 31 August; the 2027 ceremony is expected in late August.
Dates & details →Air Guitar World Championships
Oulu · Finland
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Held annually in late August in Oulu, northern Finland, produced by Airnest Productions, with a two-evening world final. First staged in 1996, the contest judges sixty-second air-guitar routines on technical merit, stage presence and airness. Upcoming: 2026 championship 26 to 29 August, world final 28 to 29 August; the 2027 edition is expected in late August and confirmed by the organiser nearer the time.
Dates & details →September 2026
Kwita Izina
Volcanoes National Park · Rwanda
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Held once a year, usually in early September, at Kinigi in the foothills of Volcanoes National Park, and organised by the Rwanda Development Board. The 21st edition is confirmed for 4 September 2026.
Dates & details →Goroka Show
Goroka · Papua New Guinea
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Held over a weekend in mid-September each year, timed to the Independence Day weekend around 16 September, at the National Sports Institute grounds in Goroka.
Dates & details →Thimphu Tshechu
Thimphu · Bhutan
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Held over three days each autumn in the courtyard of Tashichho Dzong, on and around the 10th to 12th days of the 8th Bhutanese lunar month (September or early October). Dates shift each year with the lunar calendar. Upcoming: 21 to 23 September 2026; the 2027 dates fall in late September or early October and are confirmed by the Department of Tourism nearer the time.
Dates & details →October 2026
Investiture of the Captains Regent
City of San Marino · San Marino
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A state ceremony held on fixed dates twice a year, on 1 April and 1 October. Upcoming: 1 October 2026 (confirmed); 1 April 2027 and 1 October 2027 (confirmed by the fixed calendar).
Dates & details →Golden Eagle Festival
Bayan-Olgii · Mongolia
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The main Golden Eagle Festival runs on the first weekend of October outside Olgii, Bayan-Olgii, with a smaller Sagsai festival in September. Upcoming: 3-4 October 2026; first weekend of October 2027.
Dates & details →Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix
Marina Bay · Singapore
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Held annually on the Marina Bay Street Circuit in downtown Singapore as Formula 1's original night race, organised by Singapore GP Pte Ltd, historically in September and scheduled for October in 2026, with the main grand prix under lights on the Sunday evening. Upcoming: 9 to 11 October 2026 (adding Singapore's first F1 Sprint on the Saturday); 2027 dates confirmed by the promoter and Formula 1 nearer the time.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Kolkata
Kolkata · India
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Durga Puja follows the lunar calendar, falling in late September or October.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel · Egypt
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Fixed dates set by the sun: February 22 and October 22 every year.
Dates & details →Abissa
Grand-Bassam · Cote d'Ivoire
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Held each year over about a week from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday of November in the historic quarter of Grand-Bassam. A traditional N'zima community festival with no single organiser; dates follow the fixed rule rather than an annual announcement.
Dates & details →Hawaiki Nui Va'a
Bora Bora · French Polynesia
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Held over three consecutive days in late October or early November each year, run by the Comite Organisateur Hawaiki Nui Va'a for the Federation Tahitienne de Va'a, which owns the race. Six-person outrigger crews paddle an 80-mile open-ocean course from Huahine to Raiatea, on to Tahaa, and finishing in the Bora Bora lagoon on the final day. Upcoming: 33rd edition, 29 to 31 October 2026 (Bora Bora finish 31 October); 2027 dates fall in late October or early November and are confirmed by the organiser nearer the time.
Dates & details →Divali Nagar
Chaguanas · Trinidad and Tobago
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Divali follows the Hindu lunar calendar, falling on the new moon of Kartik between mid-October and mid-November, and the National Council of Indian Culture stages the Divali Nagar for the nine nights leading up to it in Chaguanas. The 2025 edition ran 11 to 19 October; Divali 2026 falls on 8 November, so the 2026 Nagar is expected in the days before it.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oaxaca
Oaxaca · Mexico
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Core dates fixed: October 31 through November 2.
Dates & details →November 2026
Festival de Barriletes Gigantes de Sumpango
Sumpango · Guatemala
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Every year on 1 November, the Day of the Dead, on the field beside the Sumpango cemetery, with a community kite-flying day on 2 November. Founded in 1978; the 47th edition was held on 1 November 2025, and the next is expected on 1 November 2026.
Dates & details →Garifuna Settlement Day
Dangriga · Belize
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A fixed national public holiday on 19 November every year, centred on Dangriga. Upcoming: 19 November 2026 (confirmed); 19 November 2027 (fixed by statute).
Dates & details →Macau Grand Prix
Guia Circuit · Macau
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Run over one long weekend in mid to late November each year on the Guia street circuit. Upcoming: 19 to 22 November 2026 (73rd edition, provisional); mid to late November 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Bon Om Touk
Phnom Penh · Cambodia
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Three days around the full moon of the Khmer month of Kadeuk in November, so the dates shift yearly with the lunar calendar. Upcoming: 23 to 25 November 2026 (confirmed); around 13 to 15 November 2027 (expected, projected from the November 2027 full moon).
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Pushkar
Pushkar · India
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The fair follows the lunar calendar, culminating on Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Varanasi
Varanasi · India
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Dev Deepawali falls on Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik, in November, occasionally late October.
Dates & details →Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam · Netherlands
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Held annually from late November to mid-January, with commissioned light-art installations along the canals of central Amsterdam, viewable on a free walking or cycling route and by canal cruise. Organised by the Amsterdam Light Festival foundation. The 15th edition runs 26 November 2026 to 17 January 2027; the 16th is expected late November 2027 to mid-January 2028.
Dates & details →December 2026
Witness / Attend in Kohima
Kohima · India
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Fixed on December 1-10 every year.
Dates & details →Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates
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The Formula 1 season finale, run over four days in late November or early December at Yas Marina Circuit. Upcoming: December 3 to 6, 2026.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Konya
Konya · Turkey
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Runs December 7 to 17 annually.
Dates & details →Sugar Mas
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
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A national carnival season running from mid-December into the first days of January, set each year by the National Carnival Commission. Upcoming: Sugar Mas 55, 11 December 2026 to 2 January 2027 (confirmed); Sugar Mas 56, mid-December 2027 to early January 2028 (expected).
Dates & details →Las Parrandas de Remedios
Remedios · Cuba
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Builds nightly from December 16, with the all-night climax on Christmas Eve, December 24, every year.
Dates & details →Festival International du Sahara de Douz
Douz · Tunisia
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About four days at the end of December each year in the Douz festival arena. Upcoming: the 57th edition ran 25 to 28 December 2025; a 58th edition is expected in late December 2026, dates usually confirmed about a month ahead.
Dates & details →Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival
Harbin · China
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Officially launches on January 5 and runs into late February, with Ice and Snow World opening from late December. Upcoming: late December 2026 into late February 2027.
Dates & details →Maskanoo
Grace Bay · Turks and Caicos
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Held once a year on Boxing Day, 26 December, on Grace Bay Road in Providenciales (fronting Saltmills Plaza and Regent Village), from dusk into the night, with junkanoo bands, local food and music. Created and hosted by the Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association, revived in 2009. Upcoming: 26 December 2026; the pattern repeats every 26 December.
Dates & details →Junkanoo
Nassau · Bahamas
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Held twice a year in Nassau, before dawn on Boxing Day (26 December) and New Year's Day (1 January), when costumed groups parade down Bay Street to drums, cowbells and brass. The national parades are government-run through the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. Upcoming: Boxing Day 26 December 2026 and New Year's Day 1 January 2027; the pattern repeats every 26 December and 1 January.
Dates & details →Calabar Carnival
Calabar · Nigeria
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A month-long festival each December in Calabar, with the flagship parades falling between about 26 and 30 December. The 2026 edition runs its main events 26 to 30 December.
Dates & details →January 2027
Junkanoo
Nassau · Bahamas
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Held twice a year in Nassau, before dawn on Boxing Day (26 December) and New Year's Day (1 January), when costumed groups parade down Bay Street to drums, cowbells and brass. The national parades are government-run through the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture. Upcoming: Boxing Day 26 December 2026 and New Year's Day 1 January 2027; the pattern repeats every 26 December and 1 January.
Dates & details →Accompong Maroon Festival
Accompong · Jamaica
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Held every year on 6 January in Accompong, St. Elizabeth, marking the 1739 peace treaty and the Maroon leader Cudjoe. Upcoming: 6 January 2027.
Dates & details →Vodun Days
Ouidah · Benin
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Held every year on 8 to 10 January in Ouidah, built around Benin's 10 January national holiday for traditional religions. The 2026 edition ran 8 to 10 January; the 2027 edition is expected on the same dates.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Vevcani
Vevcani · North Macedonia
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Fixed on January 13-14 for old-calendar New Year.
Dates & details →Samana Humpback Whale Season
Samana · Dominican Republic
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Annual humpback whale season in Samana Bay, roughly 15 January to the end of March each year, peaking in February. Not a fixed-date event; the whales arrive and depart on their migration.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Cebu City
Cebu City · Philippines
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Held annually on the third Sunday of January.
Dates & details →Timkat
Gondar · Ethiopia
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Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany, falls on 11 Ter, which is 19 January in most years and 20 January in the year before a Gregorian leap year, with the Ketera eve procession the afternoon before. Upcoming: 19 January 2027 in Gondar; 20 January 2028.
Dates & details →Thaipusam
Batu Caves · Malaysia
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Held annually at Batu Caves on Thaipusam, the full moon of the Tamil month Thai (January or February). Falls on 1 February in 2026 and 22 January in 2027. A pre-dawn chariot procession runs from the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple in Kuala Lumpur to the caves; the observance is free and organised by the temple community, with no ticketing.
Dates & details →Thaipusam
Little India · Singapore
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Held on the full-moon day of the Tamil month of Thai (January or February), when Hindu devotees carry kavadi and paal kudam in a roughly three-kilometre procession from the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple in Little India to the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple on Tank Road, coordinated by the Hindu Endowments Board and the two temples. First walkers leave from about 11.30pm the night before. Upcoming: 1 February 2026; 22 January 2027.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Venice
Venice · Italy
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Runs late January into February, ending on Shrove Tuesday.
Dates & details →Masopust - Shrovetide Processions of the Hlinecko Region
Hlinsko · Czechia
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Held at Shrovetide, in the weeks before Lent, so the dates move each year and are spread across the Hlinecko villages on different days from late January into February. In 2026 the rounds run on 31 January (Vesely Kopec, Hamry), 8 February (Blatno), 14 February (Vortova, Studnice) and 17 February (Hlinsko). A 2027 season is expected in late January to early February.
Dates & details →February 2027
Witness / Attend in Ptuj
Ptuj · Slovenia
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Annual around Shrovetide.
Dates & details →Busojaras
Mohacs · Hungary
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Six days ending on Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday), so the dates shift yearly. Upcoming: 12 to 17 February 2026 (confirmed); around 4 to 9 February 2027 (expected, projected from the movable date).
Dates & details →Jokkmokk Winter Market
Jokkmokk · Sweden
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Held once a year on the first Thursday to Saturday of February in Jokkmokk, on the Arctic Circle, arranged by Jokkmokk Municipality in a four-hundred-year tradition. The 2027 edition, the 422nd market, runs 4 to 6 February; the 2028 edition is expected in early February. It repeats every year on the first Thursday to Saturday of February.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
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Carnival dates move with the lunar calendar, landing in February or early March.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oruro
Oruro · Bolivia
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A movable feast in February, occasionally early March.
Dates & details →Fundacion Carnaval de Barranquilla
Barranquilla · Colombia
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The carnival runs the four days before Ash Wednesday, so dates move with Lent.
Dates & details →Carnaval de Las Tablas
Las Tablas · Panama
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Held over the four days before Ash Wednesday each year, Saturday to Shrove Tuesday, so the dates move with Lent (usually February, sometimes early March). Two rival neighbourhood tunas, Calle Arriba and Calle Abajo, compete with floats, rival queens, live music and nightly water-throwing culecos. Upcoming: 6 to 9 February 2027.
Dates & details →Carnival of Binche
Binche · Belgium
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Held every year on the Sunday, Monday and Shrove Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in Binche, so the dates move with Easter; the masked Gilles appear mainly on the Tuesday. Upcoming: 15 to 17 February 2026 and 7 to 9 February 2027, both confirmed by the town's official carnival site.
Dates & details →Vastelaovend
Maastricht · Netherlands
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Held on the three days before Ash Wednesday (Sunday to Tuesday), so the date moves with the church calendar, usually in February and sometimes early March. In Maastricht it is organised by the city carnival association Vereniging De Tempeleers and opens with the hoisting of the Mooswief over the Markt. Next editions 7 to 9 February 2027 and 27 to 29 February 2028.
Dates & details →Trinidad Carnival
Port of Spain · Trinidad and Tobago
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Carnival climaxes on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, the two days before Ash Wednesday, so the dates move with the Christian calendar between early February and early March. The Panorama steelband final falls on the Saturday before, Dimanche Gras on the Sunday, and J'ouvert in the pre-dawn dark of Carnival Monday. Carnival 2027 is Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 February; 2028 is expected on 28 and 29 February.
Dates & details →Uzgavenes
Rumsiskes · Lithuania
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Held on Shrove Tuesday (Uzgavenes) each year, a movable date 47 days before Easter, at the Open-Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumsiskes. Upcoming: 17 February 2026; 9 February 2027.
Dates & details →Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival
Argungu · Nigeria
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Held annually over about four days in February or March in Argungu, culminating in the mass fishing contest on the Sokoto river. Suspended for several years over security and revived by the Kebbi State Government; the 61st edition ran 11 to 14 February 2026.
Dates & details →Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival
Yanshui · Taiwan
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Held over the Lantern Festival, the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the first lunar month, around Yanshui Wu Temple in Tainan. Beehive frames of thousands of bottle rockets are fired into the crowd through the night to drive out misfortune. In 2027 the Lantern Festival falls around 19 to 20 February; Tainan City confirms the exact dates each year.
Dates & details →Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival
Pingxi · Taiwan
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Held during the Taiwan Lantern Festival, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, in the Pingxi district of New Taipei City, promoted by the New Taipei City Government since 1999. The mass sky-lantern releases run over two evenings, usually at Pingxi and at Shifen. The 2027 grand finale at Shifen is expected around 20 February; the official schedule is released each January.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel · Egypt
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Fixed dates set by the sun: February 22 and October 22 every year.
Dates & details →Mashramani
Georgetown · Guyana
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Held every year on 23 February, Guyana's Republic Day, with a month of costume, calypso, chutney and steel-pan competitions building to the big float-and-costume parade through Georgetown. The 2026 parade ran on 23 February; Mashramani returns on 23 February 2027.
Dates & details →N'cwala
Chipata · Zambia
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Held once a year on the last Saturday of February at Mutenguleni village, near Chipata in Zambia's Eastern Province, as the Ngoni first-fruits ceremony. The Ngoni paramount chief presides, tasting the first produce of the season, and warriors perform the ingoma war dance. The ceremony in its modern form was revived in 1980. Upcoming: the 2026 N'cwala was held on 28 February 2026; the 2027 ceremony is expected on 27 February 2027.
Dates & details →March 2027
Witness / Attend in Valencia
Valencia · Spain
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Runs March 1 through 19 every year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Bali
Bali · Indonesia
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Nyepi follows the Saka lunar calendar, falling in March, occasionally late February.
Dates & details →St Patrick's Festival
Dublin · Ireland
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Held annually in Dublin over four to five days in mid-March, culminating in the National St Patrick's Day Parade on 17 March. The 2026 festival ran 14 to 17 March; the parade always falls on 17 March, with the surrounding festival dates set each year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Planica
Planica · Slovenia
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The World Cup ski-jump finals run four days, Thursday to Sunday, in the second half of March.
Dates & details →Junta Permanente Pro Semana Santa de Popayan
Popayan · Colombia
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Held during Holy Week, the week before Easter, so dates move with the liturgical calendar.
Dates & details →Navruz
Dushanbe · Tajikistan
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Navruz, the spring-equinox new year, is a fixed public holiday in Tajikistan from 21 to 24 March each year, with the main state celebration and buzkashi games in Dushanbe. The date is tied to the equinox around 21 March and barely shifts year to year. Upcoming: 21 to 24 March 2027.
Dates & details →Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
Antigua · Guatemala
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Holy Week, the week before Easter Sunday, so the dates move between mid-March and April each year. Processions run daily and peak on Good Friday. 2026 fell in the week ending Easter Sunday 5 April 2026; 2027 is expected in the week ending Easter Sunday 28 March 2027.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Vrindavan
Vrindavan · India
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Holi falls on the full moon of the Hindu month of Phalguna, in late February or March.
Dates & details →Rupununi Rodeo
Lethem · Guyana
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Held every Easter weekend at Lethem in the Rupununi savannah. The 2026 rodeo ran 3 to 5 April; the 2027 edition is expected over the Easter weekend in late March.
Dates & details →Seu Harvest Parade
Willemstad · Curacao
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Held every year on Easter Monday in Willemstad, the harvest parade winding through the Otrobanda district. Upcoming: 29 March 2027 and 17 April 2028.
Dates & details →April 2027
Investiture of the Captains Regent
City of San Marino · San Marino
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A state ceremony held on fixed dates twice a year, on 1 April and 1 October. Upcoming: 1 October 2026 (confirmed); 1 April 2027 and 1 October 2027 (confirmed by the fixed calendar).
Dates & details →Windhoek Karneval
Windhoek · Namibia
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About ten days in late March or early April, timed around Easter. Upcoming: April 1 to 11, 2027.
Dates & details →Bahrain Grand Prix
Sakhir · Bahrain
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Held once a year, in recent seasons over a weekend in early-to-mid April, as a floodlit night race at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir. The February 2026 regional escalation disrupted the 2026 running; 2027 tickets are on sale for an April date but the calendar remains subject to the regional situation, so verify before planning.
Dates & details →Tourism Authority of Thailand (Maha Songkran World Water Festival)
Bangkok · Thailand
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April 13-15 every year.
Dates & details →Pohela Boishakh
Dhaka · Bangladesh
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Held every year on 14 April, the first day (1 Boishakh) of the Bangla calendar. Its centrepiece is the dawn Mangal Shobhajatra procession from the University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Arts, inscribed by UNESCO in 2016; since 2025 the procession has been staged under the name Ananda Shobhajatra. Next dates: 14 April 2027, 14 April 2028.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Corfu
Corfu · Greece
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A movable feast tied to Orthodox Holy Week, falling in April or early May; the botides fall on Holy Saturday morning.
Dates & details →May 2027
Echternach Hopping Procession
Echternach · Luxembourg
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Held once a year on Whit Tuesday, the Tuesday after Pentecost, in the streets of Echternach, ending at the Basilica of Saint Willibrord. Organised by the Willibrordus-Bauverein and inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2010. The date moves with Easter between mid-May and mid-June: next on 18 May 2027, then around 6 June 2028; it repeats every Whit Tuesday.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Sydney
Sydney · Australia
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Annual, roughly three and a half weeks from late May into the June long weekend.
Dates & details →June 2027
Witness / Attend in Balgari
Balgari · Bulgaria
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Fixed annually on June 3-4, the saints' feast.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Le Mans
Le Mans · France
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Race week falls in mid-June.
Dates & details →Five-Petalled Rose Festival
Cesky Krumlov · Czechia
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Three days on the third weekend of June each year across the old town of Cesky Krumlov. Upcoming: 19 to 21 June 2026 (38th edition); a 2027 edition is expected in mid-to-late June.
Dates & details →Ullortuneq (Greenland National Day)
Nuuk · Greenland
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Ullortuneq falls every year on 21 June, the summer solstice and the longest day, with the largest public celebration in the capital, Nuuk. Upcoming: 21 June 2027; 21 June 2028.
Dates & details →Falles d'Andorra
Andorra la Vella · Andorra
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The falles burn on the night of Sant Joan, around 23 June (the summer solstice), each year, with some parishes also lighting fires for Sant Pere at the end of June.
Dates & details →EMUFEC (Empresa Municipal de Festejos del Cusco)
Cusco · Peru
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Fixed on June 24 every year.
Dates & details →Vincy Mas
Kingstown · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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A roughly two-week national carnival across late June and early July, climaxing on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, set each year by the Carnival Development Corporation. Upcoming: about 26 June to 7 July 2026 (confirmed, Carnival Tuesday 7 July); late June to early July 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Wimbledon
Wimbledon · United Kingdom
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The Championships run a fortnight from late June into July.
Dates & details →July 2027
Keti Koti
Paramaribo · Suriname
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Held every year on 1 July, a public holiday, across downtown Paramaribo: morning commemorations of the 1863 abolition of slavery at Fort Zeelandia and the Kwakoe monument, followed by the Bigi Spikri parade and street celebration. Upcoming: 1 July 2027 and 1 July 2028; the pattern repeats every 1 July.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Siena
Siena · Italy
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Two races a year: July 2 and August 16.
Dates & details →Fiesta del Fuego (Festival del Caribe)
Santiago de Cuba · Cuba
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First week of July each year, most recently July 3 to 9. Upcoming: early July 2027.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Yerevan
Yerevan · Armenia
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Vardavar falls ninety-eight days after Armenian Easter.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Pamplona
Pamplona · Spain
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Runs July 6 through July 14 every year.
Dates & details →Evala
Kara · Togo
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Held each July across the twelve cantons of the Kozah prefecture around Kara, as the Kabye initiation wrestling. The 2026 wrestling ran 11 to 18 July; the 2027 edition is expected in the same mid-July window.
Dates & details →Naadam Festival
Ulaanbaatar · Mongolia
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Held every year on 11-13 July as a national holiday, with the main National Naadam in Ulaanbaatar's National Sports Stadium and smaller naadams across the provinces the same week. Upcoming: 11-13 July 2027.
Dates & details →Salalah Tourism Festival
Salalah · Oman
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Held through the Khareef monsoon each summer, roughly mid-July to late August, on the Ittin plain outside Salalah. In 2025 the festival ran 15 July to 31 August; the 2026 and 2027 editions are expected to follow a similar mid-July to late-August window within the wider Khareef season of about 21 June to 21 September.
Dates & details →Yasaka-jinja Shrine / Gion Matsuri Yamaboko Rengokai
Kyoto · Japan
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Spans July, with the grand processions on July 17 and 24.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Bajina Basta
Bajina Basta · Serbia
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The Great Descent falls on the third Saturday of July.
Dates & details →Hill of Crosses
Siauliai · Lithuania
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The site is open freely year-round; the annual feast (Kryziu kalno atlaidai) falls on the penultimate Sunday of July. Upcoming: 19 July 2026; 18 July 2027.
Dates & details →Lucian Carnival
Castries · Saint Lucia
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Held each July in and around Castries, with the season building through early July to the pre-dawn J'Ouvert and two days of the Parade of the Bands in the third week. Delivered by the Events Company of Saint Lucia with the Carnival Planning and Management Committee. Upcoming: the 2026 parade days fall on 20 and 21 July.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Mostar
Mostar · Bosnia and Herzegovina
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The traditional bridge-diving competition falls on the last Sunday of July.
Dates & details →PANAFEST and Emancipation Day
Cape Coast · Ghana
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Emancipation Day is commemorated around 1 August every year at the Cape Coast and Elmina castles; the PANAFEST Pan-African festival runs alongside it every two years in odd-numbered years. Upcoming: Emancipation Day observances around 1 August 2026; the next full PANAFEST expected late July to early August 2027.
Dates & details →Osun-Osogbo Festival
Osogbo · Nigeria
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Held annually over about two weeks in late July and early August, culminating in the Arugba procession to the Osun river on the final Friday. The 2026 festival ran 27 July to 7 August; the 2027 edition is expected in the same late-July to early-August window.
Dates & details →Cup Match
St. George's, Bermuda · Bermuda
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Held every year on the Thursday and Friday before the first Monday in August, the two-day public holiday alternating between St. George's and Somerset. Upcoming: 30 to 31 July 2026 and 29 to 30 July 2027.
Dates & details →Carriacou Regatta Festival
Carriacou · Grenada
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Held over Emancipation weekend at the start of August each year (the festival dates from 1965), with traditional Carriacou sloop and workboat races off Hillsborough and onshore string-band, Big Drum and quadrille celebrations. Upcoming: 31 July to 2 August 2026; expected late July to early August 2027.
Dates & details →August 2027
Witness / Attend in Sinj
Sinj · Croatia
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Held annually on a Sunday in early August, customarily the first Sunday.
Dates & details →Medeltidsveckan (Medieval Week)
Visby · Sweden
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Held once a year over eight days in early August in Visby on Gotland, staged since 1984 by the association Medeltidsveckan pa Gotland. The 2026 edition runs 2 to 9 August; the 2027 edition is expected in early August, in week 31 or 32. It repeats every year in early August.
Dates & details →Liechtenstein National Day (Staatsfeiertag)
Vaduz · Liechtenstein
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Held every year on 15 August, Liechtenstein's National Day, in and around Vaduz Castle and the capital's Stadtle. Upcoming: 15 August 2026 (confirmed); 15 August 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Siena
Siena · Italy
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Two races a year: July 2 and August 16.
Dates & details →Mount Hagen Cultural Show
Mount Hagen · Papua New Guinea
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Held on a weekend in mid-August each year, usually the third weekend, at Queen's Park in Mount Hagen.
Dates & details →Umhlanga Reed Dance
Ludzidzini · Eswatini
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Held once a year in late August at the Ludzidzini royal residence, an eight-day national ceremony culminating in a main dance day that is a public holiday. Dates are set by the Swazi royal household from ancestral astrology and announced only weeks ahead. The 2026 main day is expected on or around 31 August; the 2027 ceremony is expected in late August.
Dates & details →Air Guitar World Championships
Oulu · Finland
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Held annually in late August in Oulu, northern Finland, produced by Airnest Productions, with a two-evening world final. First staged in 1996, the contest judges sixty-second air-guitar routines on technical merit, stage presence and airness. Upcoming: 2026 championship 26 to 29 August, world final 28 to 29 August; the 2027 edition is expected in late August and confirmed by the organiser nearer the time.
Dates & details →September 2027
October 2027
Golden Eagle Festival
Bayan-Olgii · Mongolia
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The main Golden Eagle Festival runs on the first weekend of October outside Olgii, Bayan-Olgii, with a smaller Sagsai festival in September. Upcoming: 3-4 October 2026; first weekend of October 2027.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Kolkata
Kolkata · India
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Durga Puja follows the lunar calendar, falling in late September or October.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel · Egypt
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Fixed dates set by the sun: February 22 and October 22 every year.
Dates & details →Abissa
Grand-Bassam · Cote d'Ivoire
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Held each year over about a week from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday of November in the historic quarter of Grand-Bassam. A traditional N'zima community festival with no single organiser; dates follow the fixed rule rather than an annual announcement.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oaxaca
Oaxaca · Mexico
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Core dates fixed: October 31 through November 2.
Dates & details →November 2027
Bon Om Touk
Phnom Penh · Cambodia
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Three days around the full moon of the Khmer month of Kadeuk in November, so the dates shift yearly with the lunar calendar. Upcoming: 23 to 25 November 2026 (confirmed); around 13 to 15 November 2027 (expected, projected from the November 2027 full moon).
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Pushkar
Pushkar · India
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The fair follows the lunar calendar, culminating on Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Varanasi
Varanasi · India
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Dev Deepawali falls on Kartik Purnima, the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartik, in November, occasionally late October.
Dates & details →Macau Grand Prix
Guia Circuit · Macau
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Run over one long weekend in mid to late November each year on the Guia street circuit. Upcoming: 19 to 22 November 2026 (73rd edition, provisional); mid to late November 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Garifuna Settlement Day
Dangriga · Belize
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A fixed national public holiday on 19 November every year, centred on Dangriga. Upcoming: 19 November 2026 (confirmed); 19 November 2027 (fixed by statute).
Dates & details →Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam · Netherlands
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Held annually from late November to mid-January, with commissioned light-art installations along the canals of central Amsterdam, viewable on a free walking or cycling route and by canal cruise. Organised by the Amsterdam Light Festival foundation. The 15th edition runs 26 November 2026 to 17 January 2027; the 16th is expected late November 2027 to mid-January 2028.
Dates & details →December 2027
Witness / Attend in Kohima
Kohima · India
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Fixed on December 1-10 every year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Konya
Konya · Turkey
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Runs December 7 to 17 annually.
Dates & details →Sugar Mas
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
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A national carnival season running from mid-December into the first days of January, set each year by the National Carnival Commission. Upcoming: Sugar Mas 55, 11 December 2026 to 2 January 2027 (confirmed); Sugar Mas 56, mid-December 2027 to early January 2028 (expected).
Dates & details →Las Parrandas de Remedios
Remedios · Cuba
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Builds nightly from December 16, with the all-night climax on Christmas Eve, December 24, every year.
Dates & details →Calabar Carnival
Calabar · Nigeria
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A month-long festival each December in Calabar, with the flagship parades falling between about 26 and 30 December. The 2026 edition runs its main events 26 to 30 December.
Dates & details →January 2028
Witness / Attend in Vevcani
Vevcani · North Macedonia
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Fixed on January 13-14 for old-calendar New Year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Cebu City
Cebu City · Philippines
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Held annually on the third Sunday of January.
Dates & details →Timkat
Gondar · Ethiopia
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Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany, falls on 11 Ter, which is 19 January in most years and 20 January in the year before a Gregorian leap year, with the Ketera eve procession the afternoon before. Upcoming: 19 January 2027 in Gondar; 20 January 2028.
Dates & details →February 2028
Jokkmokk Winter Market
Jokkmokk · Sweden
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Held once a year on the first Thursday to Saturday of February in Jokkmokk, on the Arctic Circle, arranged by Jokkmokk Municipality in a four-hundred-year tradition. The 2027 edition, the 422nd market, runs 4 to 6 February; the 2028 edition is expected in early February. It repeats every year on the first Thursday to Saturday of February.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel · Egypt
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Fixed dates set by the sun: February 22 and October 22 every year.
Dates & details →Vastelaovend
Maastricht · Netherlands
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Held on the three days before Ash Wednesday (Sunday to Tuesday), so the date moves with the church calendar, usually in February and sometimes early March. In Maastricht it is organised by the city carnival association Vereniging De Tempeleers and opens with the hoisting of the Mooswief over the Markt. Next editions 7 to 9 February 2027 and 27 to 29 February 2028.
Dates & details →Trinidad Carnival
Port of Spain · Trinidad and Tobago
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Carnival climaxes on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, the two days before Ash Wednesday, so the dates move with the Christian calendar between early February and early March. The Panorama steelband final falls on the Saturday before, Dimanche Gras on the Sunday, and J'ouvert in the pre-dawn dark of Carnival Monday. Carnival 2027 is Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 February; 2028 is expected on 28 and 29 February.
Dates & details →March 2028
April 2028
Tourism Authority of Thailand (Maha Songkran World Water Festival)
Bangkok · Thailand
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April 13-15 every year.
Dates & details →Pohela Boishakh
Dhaka · Bangladesh
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Held every year on 14 April, the first day (1 Boishakh) of the Bangla calendar. Its centrepiece is the dawn Mangal Shobhajatra procession from the University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Arts, inscribed by UNESCO in 2016; since 2025 the procession has been staged under the name Ananda Shobhajatra. Next dates: 14 April 2027, 14 April 2028.
Dates & details →Seu Harvest Parade
Willemstad · Curacao
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Held every year on Easter Monday in Willemstad, the harvest parade winding through the Otrobanda district. Upcoming: 29 March 2027 and 17 April 2028.
Dates & details →June 2028
Witness / Attend in Balgari
Balgari · Bulgaria
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Fixed annually on June 3-4, the saints' feast.
Dates & details →Echternach Hopping Procession
Echternach · Luxembourg
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Held once a year on Whit Tuesday, the Tuesday after Pentecost, in the streets of Echternach, ending at the Basilica of Saint Willibrord. Organised by the Willibrordus-Bauverein and inscribed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2010. The date moves with Easter between mid-May and mid-June: next on 18 May 2027, then around 6 June 2028; it repeats every Whit Tuesday.
Dates & details →Ullortuneq (Greenland National Day)
Nuuk · Greenland
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Ullortuneq falls every year on 21 June, the summer solstice and the longest day, with the largest public celebration in the capital, Nuuk. Upcoming: 21 June 2027; 21 June 2028.
Dates & details →EMUFEC (Empresa Municipal de Festejos del Cusco)
Cusco · Peru
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Fixed on June 24 every year.
Dates & details →July 2028
Keti Koti
Paramaribo · Suriname
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Held every year on 1 July, a public holiday, across downtown Paramaribo: morning commemorations of the 1863 abolition of slavery at Fort Zeelandia and the Kwakoe monument, followed by the Bigi Spikri parade and street celebration. Upcoming: 1 July 2027 and 1 July 2028; the pattern repeats every 1 July.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Siena
Siena · Italy
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Two races a year: July 2 and August 16.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Pamplona
Pamplona · Spain
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Runs July 6 through July 14 every year.
Dates & details →Naadam Festival
Ulaanbaatar · Mongolia
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Held every year on 11-13 July as a national holiday, with the main National Naadam in Ulaanbaatar's National Sports Stadium and smaller naadams across the provinces the same week. Upcoming: 11-13 July 2027.
Dates & details →Yasaka-jinja Shrine / Gion Matsuri Yamaboko Rengokai
Kyoto · Japan
Witness / Attend
Spans July, with the grand processions on July 17 and 24.
Dates & details →August 2028
October 2028
Witness / Attend in Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel · Egypt
Witness / Attend
Fixed dates set by the sun: February 22 and October 22 every year.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oaxaca
Oaxaca · Mexico
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Core dates fixed: October 31 through November 2.
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