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.
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July 2026
Tobago Heritage Festival
Scarborough · Trinidad and Tobago
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across roughly two weeks from mid-July into early August, staged by the Tobago Festivals Commission, with each participating village given its own night or weekend on a published island-wide schedule. The 2026 edition, the 39th, runs 16 July to 1 August; the 2027 edition is expected on similar mid-July to early-August dates.
Dates & details →Fiestas de Santiago Apostol
Loiza · Puerto Rico
Witness / Attend
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 →Antigua Carnival
St. John's · Antigua and Barbuda
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over about twelve days from late July into the first week of August in St. John's. The 2026 carnival runs 25 July to 4 August; a further edition is expected in late July 2027.
Dates & details →Cup Match
St. George's, Bermuda · Bermuda
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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
Crop Over
Bridgetown · Barbados
Music & Culture Festivals
Runs each year from late June through early August in and around Bridgetown, produced by the National Cultural Foundation. A season of calypso and soca competitions builds to the pre-dawn Foreday Morning street jump and climaxes on Grand Kadooment Day, the first Monday of August. Upcoming: Grand Kadooment falls on 3 August 2026 and on 2 August 2027.
Dates & details →Spicemas
St. George's · Grenada
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every August, climaxing on the second Monday of August (Carnival Monday) and the following Tuesday (Fancy Mas), with J'ouvert before dawn on the Monday, coordinated by the Spicemas Corporation. Feeder events (Panorama, Soca Monarch, Dimanche Gras, Traditional Mas Festival) run across the preceding days. Upcoming: J'ouvert and Monday Night Mas 10 August 2026, Fancy Mas 11 August 2026; Carnival Monday 9 August 2027.
Dates & details →September 2026
October 2026
World Creole Music Festival
Roseau · Dominica
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three nights on the last weekend of October at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, staged by the Discover Dominica Authority as the centrepiece of the island's Independence and Creole season, and running since 1997. Bouyon, cadence-lypso, zouk, soca, reggae, dancehall and afrobeat from across the Creole world. Upcoming: the 26th edition is confirmed for 23 to 25 October 2026.
Dates & details →Divali Nagar
Chaguanas · Trinidad and Tobago
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
Core dates fixed: October 31 through November 2.
Dates & details →November 2026
Festival de Barriletes Gigantes de Sumpango
Sumpango · Guatemala
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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 →December 2026
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Havana · Cuba
Film Festivals
About ten days in early-to-mid December each year. Upcoming: the 47th edition is expected in December 2026.
Dates & details →Sugar Mas
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
Builds nightly from December 16, with the all-night climax on Christmas Eve, December 24, every year.
Dates & details →Maskanoo
Grace Bay · Turks and Caicos
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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 →Owru Yari
Paramaribo · Suriname
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year on 31 December in downtown Paramaribo, with the Pagara Estafette firecracker relay through the day and street celebrations into New Year's Eve night. Upcoming: 31 December 2026 and 31 December 2027; the pattern repeats every 31 December.
Dates & details →January 2027
Junkanoo
Nassau · Bahamas
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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 →Panama Jazz Festival
Panama City · Panama
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each January in Panama City, produced by the Fundacion Danilo Perez, which founded it in 2003. A week of ticketed evening concerts, late-night jam sessions and a large free daytime education programme across the capital's venues. Upcoming: the 2027 edition runs 14 to 16 January.
Dates & details →Samana Humpback Whale Season
Samana · Dominican Republic
Witness / Attend
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 →Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza
Havana · Cuba
Music & Culture Festivals
About a week in late January, occasionally running into early February. Upcoming: the 42nd edition is expected in late January 2027.
Dates & details →February 2027
Witness / Attend in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil
Witness / Attend
Carnival dates move with the lunar calendar, landing in February or early March.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oruro
Oruro · Bolivia
Witness / Attend
A movable feast in February, occasionally early March.
Dates & details →Aruba Carnival
Oranjestad · Aruba
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year as a roughly six-week season from the first weekend of January to the eve of Lent, ending with the San Nicolas Lighting Parade and the Grand Parade in Oranjestad on the final weekend before Ash Wednesday. The 2027 closing weekend is expected around 6 to 9 February.
Dates & details →Fundacion Carnaval de Barranquilla
Barranquilla · Colombia
Witness / Attend
The carnival runs the four days before Ash Wednesday, so dates move with Lent.
Dates & details →Carnaval de Las Tablas
Las Tablas · Panama
Witness / Attend
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 →Trinidad Carnival
Port of Spain · Trinidad and Tobago
Witness / Attend
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 →Mashramani
Georgetown · Guyana
Witness / Attend
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 →March 2027
Junta Permanente Pro Semana Santa de Popayan
Popayan · Colombia
Witness / Attend
Held during Holy Week, the week before Easter, so dates move with the liturgical calendar.
Dates & details →Semana Santa en La Antigua Guatemala
Antigua · Guatemala
Witness / Attend
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 →Bequia Easter Regatta
Bequia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sailing
A four-day regatta held each year over the Easter weekend, dates set off the movable feast by the Bequia Sailing Club. Upcoming: around 2 to 6 April 2026 (expected, Easter Sunday 5 April); around 25 to 29 March 2027 (expected, Easter Sunday 28 March).
Dates & details →Rupununi Rodeo
Lethem · Guyana
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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
National Family Island Regatta
George Town, Exuma · Bahamas
Sailing
Held each April in Elizabeth Harbour off George Town, Great Exuma, staged by the National Family Island Regatta Committee since 1954, racing traditional Bahamian Class A, B and C working sloops over about five days. Dates fall in the last full week of April and are confirmed by the committee nearer the time. The 2026 edition (the 70th) ran 21 to 25 April 2026; 2027 is expected in late April.
Dates & details →Antigua Sailing Week
English Harbour · Antigua and Barbuda
Sailing
Held annually over five days in late April, out of English and Falmouth Harbours. The 58th edition runs 21 to 25 April 2027; a further edition is expected in late April 2028.
Dates & details →The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans · United States
Music & Culture Festivals
Late April into early May across two weekends.
Dates & details →The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans · United States
Music & Culture Festivals
Late April into early May across two weekends.
Dates & details →Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival
Rodney Bay · Saint Lucia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each spring, historically late April into May, with main concerts at the Pigeon Island National Landmark near Rodney Bay. Produced by the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority with the Cultural Development Foundation and the Events Company of Saint Lucia. Upcoming: the 2027 edition runs 30 April to 9 May.
Dates & details →May 2027
June 2027
Ullortuneq (Greenland National Day)
Nuuk · Greenland
Witness / Attend
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 →St. Kitts Music Festival
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Music & Culture Festivals
A three-night festival held annually in late June at Warner Park Stadium, Basseterre. Upcoming: 25 to 27 June 2026 (confirmed, the 28th edition); late June 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →EMUFEC (Empresa Municipal de Festejos del Cusco)
Cusco · Peru
Witness / Attend
Fixed on June 24 every year.
Dates & details →Music & Culture Festivals in Montreal
Montreal · Canada
Music & Culture Festivals
Roughly ten days from late June into the first week of July, annually.
Dates & details →Vincy Mas
Kingstown · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Witness / Attend
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 →July 2027
Keti Koti
Paramaribo · Suriname
Witness / Attend
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 →Fiesta del Fuego (Festival del Caribe)
Santiago de Cuba · Cuba
Witness / Attend
First week of July each year, most recently July 3 to 9. Upcoming: early July 2027.
Dates & details →Tobago Heritage Festival
Scarborough · Trinidad and Tobago
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across roughly two weeks from mid-July into early August, staged by the Tobago Festivals Commission, with each participating village given its own night or weekend on a published island-wide schedule. The 2026 edition, the 39th, runs 16 July to 1 August; the 2027 edition is expected on similar mid-July to early-August dates.
Dates & details →Reggae Sumfest
Montego Bay · Jamaica
Music & Culture Festivals
Normally a week of concerts each July at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay. In 2026 it runs as a single night, A Taste of Sumfest, on 18 July at Plantation Cove, St. Ann, while the Montego Bay venue recovers from hurricane damage; a return to the usual July week in Montego Bay is expected for 2027.
Dates & details →Lucian Carnival
Castries · Saint Lucia
Witness / Attend
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 →Antigua Carnival
St. John's · Antigua and Barbuda
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over about twelve days from late July into the first week of August in St. John's. The 2026 carnival runs 25 July to 4 August; a further edition is expected in late July 2027.
Dates & details →Cup Match
St. George's, Bermuda · Bermuda
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
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 →Crop Over
Bridgetown · Barbados
Music & Culture Festivals
Runs each year from late June through early August in and around Bridgetown, produced by the National Cultural Foundation. A season of calypso and soca competitions builds to the pre-dawn Foreday Morning street jump and climaxes on Grand Kadooment Day, the first Monday of August. Upcoming: Grand Kadooment falls on 3 August 2026 and on 2 August 2027.
Dates & details →August 2027
September 2027
October 2027
World Creole Music Festival
Roseau · Dominica
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three nights on the last weekend of October at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, staged by the Discover Dominica Authority as the centrepiece of the island's Independence and Creole season, and running since 1997. Bouyon, cadence-lypso, zouk, soca, reggae, dancehall and afrobeat from across the Creole world. Upcoming: the 26th edition is confirmed for 23 to 25 October 2026.
Dates & details →Witness / Attend in Oaxaca
Oaxaca · Mexico
Witness / Attend
Core dates fixed: October 31 through November 2.
Dates & details →November 2027
December 2027
Sugar Mas
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
Builds nightly from December 16, with the all-night climax on Christmas Eve, December 24, every year.
Dates & details →Owru Yari
Paramaribo · Suriname
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year on 31 December in downtown Paramaribo, with the Pagara Estafette firecracker relay through the day and street celebrations into New Year's Eve night. Upcoming: 31 December 2026 and 31 December 2027; the pattern repeats every 31 December.
Dates & details →February 2028
April 2028
Seu Harvest Parade
Willemstad · Curacao
Witness / Attend
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 →Antigua Sailing Week
English Harbour · Antigua and Barbuda
Sailing
Held annually over five days in late April, out of English and Falmouth Harbours. The 58th edition runs 21 to 25 April 2027; a further edition is expected in late April 2028.
Dates & details →June 2028
Ullortuneq (Greenland National Day)
Nuuk · Greenland
Witness / Attend
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
Witness / Attend
Fixed on June 24 every year.
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