Eid-ul-Fitr (August)
Eid Al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The religious Eid is a single day and Muslims are not permitted to fast that day. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...
Pakistan Day (March)
Eid Al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The religious Eid is a single day and Muslims are not permitted to fast that day. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...
Islamic New Year (November-December)
Islamic New Year is the day that marks the beginning of a new Islamic calendar year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented...
Defence Day (September)
Defence Day
is celebrated in Pakistan as a national day on 6 September in memory of those who martyred in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and successful defence of Lahore, Sialkot and other important areas of the country...
Basant Festival (January-February)
The festival is limited in its celebrations in Pakistan. Instead, the celebrations of spring known as 'Jashn-e-baharaan' in Urdu, are carried on in the entire country for almost a month...
Festa de Săo Joăo do Porto
(June)
Festa de Săo Joăo do Porto is one of Europe's liveliest street festivals. Every year, on the night of 23 June, the city of Porto, in the north of Portugal, becomes lively and seemingly crazy...
Cascais Cool Jazz Festival
(June)
The first Cascais Jazz Festival took place on November 20, 1971, in the Dramático de Cascais pavilion in Portugal. Today it is a high mix of sounds and trends...
Optimus Alive!
(July)
Optimus Alive! is a music and arts festival which takes place in the Algés riverside, in Oeiras, Portugal. The first edition took place in 2007. Despite its recent creation, the festival has achieved considerable popularity both inside and outside of Portugal...
Black & White Festival
(April)
The Black & White Festival intends to celebrate the black and white aesthetics as a specific, peculiar and unique kind of artistic expression It celebrates the black & white aesthetics in film, photography and sound...
Boom Festival
(July-August)
The Boom Festival The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema and theatre. It is located in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. It is situated in a beautiful place in Portugal’s inland, near the Spanish border...
Avante! Festival
(September)
Avante! Festival is held named after the official newspaper of the Portuguese Communist Party. The festival is usually visited and participated in by hundreds of thousands of people, making the outside of the ground seem a gigantic camping park...
Fantasporto
(February-March)
Situated in the west corner of Europe, the World Heritage City of Porto hosts a one of a kind film festival. Founded 30 years ago by a group of film fans and critics, Fantasporto, as it is known, started as a haven for sci-fi and fantasy films...
White Nights Festival
(May-July)
The White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg is an annual international arts festival. The festival begins in May with the "Stars of the White Nights" at Mariinsky Theatre and ends in July. However, some performances connected to the festival take place before and after the official dates...
Afisha Picnic
(July)
The Afisha Picnic is a one-day outdoor festival held in Moscow, Russia every summer. It takes place on the territory of Kolomenskoye, a former tsar’s estate, now a state-owned historical, architectural and nature reserve museum, located only 10 km south-east of the city center...
Nashestvie
(August)
Nashestvie is one of the largest open-air festival of Russian rock, organized by Nashe Radio station. It is held annually during the first weekend of August somewhere in the environs of Moscow, Russia. Nashestvie changed its venue several times: it was initially set in Ramenskoye, Moscow Oblast, but recently it moved northwest to Tver Oblast...
Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts
(September)
The Vladivostok Biennale of Visual Arts is an international festival of contemporary and modern visual art, held every two years in Vladivostok, Russia. The first Biennale was held in April, 1998 in Vladivostok...
Open Look
(June)
Open Look is a major annual contemporary dance festival presented by Dance House "Kannon Dance" in St.Petersburg, Russia. The festival is an international event offering training and performance programs that cover a wide range of contemporary dance forms...
National Day and National Day Parade
(August)
The National Day of Singapore is celebrated every year on 9 August, in commemoration of Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965. This holiday features a National Day Parade, an address by the Prime Minister of Singapore, and fireworks celebrations...
Singapore International Film Festival
(April-May)
The Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) is the largest, longest-running film festival in Singapore, and one of the most important in the region...
Mosaic Music Festival
(March)
Mosaic Music Festival is an annual 10-day long music festival in Singapore that features both local and overseas acts. It showcases a variety of music genres, ranging from indie-folk to hip-hop...
ZoukOut
(December)
ZoukOut is an annual dance music festival held in Singapore since 2000. It is one of Asia's biggest music dance festivals. It is usually held at one of the beaches on Sentosa island...
Singapore Arts Festival
(May-June)
The Singapore Arts Festival is an annual arts festival held in Singapore. Organised by the National Arts Council, it is one of the most significant events in the regional arts scene...
Infecting the City
(August)
Held in Cape Town, Infecting the City is a public arts festival that is committed to making art freely available to everyone. The Festival hosts a range of different types of site-specific art, artistic interventions and performance art in the central part of the City...
Splashy Fen (March-April)
Established in 1990, Splashy Fen is South Africa’s longest-running music festival, which every Easter attracts thousands of people to a farm near Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal for a unique outdoor music experience...
Durban International Film Festival
(July)
The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. It runs across 12 days at the end of July...
Oppikoppi
(August)
Oppikoppi is the name of a music festival held in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, near the mining town of Northam. The festival started off focusing mostly on rock music, but gradually added more genres and now plays host to a complete mixed bag of genres...
Poetry Africa Arts Festival
(October)
Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival held annually in Durban, South Africa. More than twenty poets, predominantly from South Africa and elsewhere on the African continent, participate in the 7–10 day Poetry Africa...
Busan International Fireworks Festival
(October)
The dynamic city of Busan, a leading city in Northeast Asia, is proud to present the 8th Busan Fireworks Festival, one of the most renowned festivals hosted by this city of maritime culture and tourism every year...
Tongyeong International Music Festival
(March)
Tongyeong International Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tongyeong City of Gyeongnam Province...
Hi! Seoul Festival
(October)
Hi! Seoul Festival is a seasonal cultural festival held four times a year every spring, summer, autumn, and winter in Seoul, South Korea since 2003. It is based on the "Seoul Citizens' Day" held on every October since 1994 to commemorate the 600 years history of Seoul as the capital of the country...
Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival
(October)
Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival is a rock festival, which is held annually in Incheon, South Korea for three days at the end of July. It is considered as one of the biggest live music events in South Korea and it's reputation grows each year...
Busan International Fireworks Festival
(July-August)
Busan International Film Festival is held annually in Haeundae-gu, Busan. It is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held from September 13 to September 21, 1996, was also the first international film festival in Korea...
San Fermín
(July)
The festival of San Fermínin the city of Pamplona (Navarre, Spain), is a deeply rooted celebration held annually from 12:00, 6 July, when the opening of the fiesta is mark to midnight 14 July, with the singing of the Pobre de Mí...
Tomatina Tomato Fight Festival
(August)
La Tomatinais a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buńol, a town located 30 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea in which participants throw tomatoes and get involved in this tomato fight purely for fun...
Running of the Bulls
(July)
The Running of the Bulls is a practice that involves running in front of a small group (typically a dozen) of bulls that have been let loose, on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets...
Las Fallas
(March)
The Fallesis a traditional celebration held in commemoration of Saint Joseph in Valencia, Spain. The term Falles refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration...
Seville Fair
(April)
TThe Seville Fairis held in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The fair generally begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week. The fair officially begins at midnight on Monday, and runs six days, ending on the following Sunday...
Hultsfred Festival
(June-July)
The Hultsfred Festival is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden. It takes place at the lake Hulingen...
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival
(September)
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival is Scandinavia's largest festival for fantastic film...
Stockholm Jazz Festival
(October)
Stockholm Jazz Festival, established in 1980, is an annual jazz festival in Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major summer event...
Göteborg Film Festival
(January-February)
Göteborg International Film Festival is the leading film festival in Scandinavia and, with an audience of 200 000...
Arvika Festival
(July)
Arvika Festival is an annual music festival held in Arvika, Sweden. Thousands of happy music fans...
The International Science Festival in Gothenburg
(April)
The International Science Festival in Gothenburg is an annual festival in Gothenburg with science activities...
Göteborg International Book Fair
(September)
Göteborg International Book Fair is the biggest book fair in Scandinavia and a meeting place for authors, publishers, agents...
Zanzibar International Film Festival
(July)
The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is an annual film festival held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It has been described by some as the largest cultural event in East Africa. Each year, some of the most captivating and cutting-edge cinema from Africa is screened in venues across the island...
Eid-ul-Fitr
(August)
Eid Al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The religious Eid is a single day and Muslims are not permitted to fast that day. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...
Zanzibar Cultural Festival
(July)
The annual Zanzibar Cultural Festival showcases the diverse traditions and celebrations of the region. This event is held annually in July, just after ZIFF. Performers come from many countries around Africa and the festival is marked with strong traditional customs and a rich heritage of culture...
Mwaka Kogwa
(July)
A four-day-long celebration, although the festival is celebrated around the island, the village of Makunduchi, on southern Unguja, is the key focus of the ritual events and each year a large crowd gathers to attend the celebration...
Bull Fighting
(August-February)
Bullfighting is a popular, traditional and annual sport in Pemba Island. Pemba bullfights are relic of Portuguse occupation of the island, which occurred during the 16th and 17th centuries. Drum beats, men and women sing local songs to make the event lively and spur on both bull and matador...
International Festival of the Sahara
(December)
The International Festival of the Sahara in Douz is an annual festival in Tunisia. The very first festival, called the Camel festival, began in 1910 when Tunisia was under French rule. Since then, every year at the end of December for four days, thousands of people, mostly from all over Tunisia and other Maghrebien countries flock to Douz...
Eid-ul-Fitr (August)
Eid Al-Fitr is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The religious Eid is a single day and Muslims are not permitted to fast that day. Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity", while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...
Festival of Ksour (March)
At the festival of Ksour, you can enjoy some fine local music and dance performances. The ghortas (grain stones) created by weathering resemble huge mushrooms, and the inhabitants carve their dwellings out of the sandy rock...
B>Carthage Film Festival
(October-November)
The Carthage Film Festival is a biannual October film festival hosted by the government of Tunisia. It alternates with the Damascus International Film Festival. It is a meeting place for international film industry professionals. An average of 200,000 tickets are sold over a period of ten days...
Istanbul International Music Festival (June-July)
The first International İstanbul Festival, organised in 1973 on the 50th Anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic, covered a period of one and a half months and focused mainly on classical music...
İzmir International Fair
(September)
Izmir International Fair is the oldest tradeshow in Turkey. The fair and the festival are held in the compound of İzmir's vast inner city park named Kültürpark in the first days of September...
Rock'n Coke (July-September)
Rock'n Coke is a Turkish rock festival sponsored by Coca-Cola. Rock'n Coke is Turkey's largest open air multiple-stage music and camping festival and has hosted some of the biggest names in alternative rock, pop, electronica and cross-over genres ...
International Istanbul Film Festival
(April)
The Istanbul International Film Festivalis the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul. The the festival aims to encourage the development of cinema in Turkey ...
Istanbul International Jazz Festival
(July)
Istanbul International Jazz Festival is a cultural event held every July in Istanbul. It offers a selection of jazz music performances with the participations of famous artists from all over the world...
Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival
(June-July)
The Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival has been organized by the Turkish State Opera and Ballet directorate since 1994 with international participation by opera and ballet companies from several different countries...
Glastonbury Festival (June)
The Glastonbury Festival is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts...
Reading and Leeds Festivals (August)
The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend...
London Film Festival (October )
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The Festival showcases the best of world cinema to champion creativity, originality, vision and imagination, and presents the finest contemporary international cinema...
The Big Chill (August)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August. The 2011 line up included The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Jessie J, Robert Plant, Calvin Harris, Aloe Blacc, Chipmunk, Katy B & Example...
V Festival (August)
The V Festival is an annual music festival held in England during the penultimate weekend in August. The event is held at two parks simultaneously which share the same bill; artists perform at one location on Saturday and then swap on Sunday...
Bestival (September)
Bestival is a four-day music festival held at the Robin Hill country park on the Isle of Wight, England. It has been held annually in late summer since 2004. The event is organized by DJ and record producer Rob da Bank and is an off-shoot of his Sunday Best record label and club nights...
Cheltenham Festival (March)
Cheltenham festival, which takes place in March, is an annual horse racing event which comprises dozens of races across 4 days...
Sasquatch Music Festival (May)
Sasquatch! Music Festival is a music festival held annually at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. It is presented by the House of Blues. The Sasquatch! Music Festival was founded in 2002 by Pacific Northwest-based concert promoter Adam Zacks...
Bonnaroo Music Festival (June)
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is an annual four-day music festival created and produced by Superfly Presents and AC Entertainment, held at Great Stage Park on a 700-acre (2.8 km˛) farm in Manchester, Tennessee, USA. It hosted its eleventh annual event June 7–10...
Lollapalooza (August)
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups...
South by Southwest (March)
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive and music festivals and conferences that take place every spring (usually in March) in Austin, Texas, United States. SXSW began in 1987, and has continued to grow in size every year...
Waterfront Blues Festival (July)
The Waterfront Blues Festival is an annual event in Portland, Oregon, United States featuring three to five days of performances by blues musicians. The festival started in 1988 and takes place in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, along the west bank of the Willamette River in downtown Portland...
Burning Man Festival (August-September)
Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September, which coincides with the American Labor Day holiday...
Carnival (February)
Carnival in Venezuela (2 days of festivals, 40 days before Easter) is a time when youth in many rural towns have water fights. Anybody and everybody that is out in the streets during the week of Carnival is subject to being soaked. Venezuela celebrates carnival with dance, music, balloons, family festivities, lavish costumes and parades...
New Year's Eve (December)
In Venezuela, many of the traditions are very similar to the ones in Spain, with an over-emphasis in traditions that supposedly bring good luck in the upcoming year...
Feria Del So (February)
Feria Del Sol (English: Fair of The Sun) is an international cultural festival held in the city of Mérida every February of the year. The Feria festival is held alongside the carnival feast. The festival includes bull competitions, cultural expositions...
The Festival of San Juan (June)
The Bonfires of Saint John is a popular festival celebrated around Saint John's day's eve (23 June) throughout many cities and towns in Venezuela. For this festival, people gather together and create large bonfires...
Dancing Devils of Yare (May)
The Dancing Devils of Yare is the name of a pagan-Christian celebration in San Francisco de Yare, Miranda state, Venezuela, at the Corpus Christi day. Its origins are traced back to the 18th century...
Shimunenga (September-October)
In Zambia, the Shimunenga Ceremony of the Ba-Ila people of Maala in Namwala District is celebrated on the weekend of the full moon in September or October. Early in the morning of the first day, people gather at the shrine of Shimunenga, where traditional songs are chanted...
Zambian Harvest Festival (February)
During N'cwala festival, held on 24th February, the Paramount Chief of the Ngoni people of Eastern province commemorates the Ngoni's entrance into Zambia in 1835. Marked by feasts, music and some of the best dancing in the country, the ceremonies are held in Mutenguleni, 15 kms south-west of Chipata...
Lwiindi (July)
Lwiindi is an annual festival of the Tonga people of southern Zambia. It is a thanksgiving ceremony which attracts people from around the country...
Kufukwila Ceremony (May)
Kufukwila Ceremony, Zambia is one of the most striking festivals of Zambia that is enjoyed grandly by all the travelers in and around the cities. The Republic of Zambia is a non-coastal country that is enclosed by the countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi...
Kuomboka Festival (February-March)
Kuomboka Festival, Zambia is one of the alluring festivals of the country that sees a huge influx of tourists every year. While you go for Zambia Tours, you can spend your time in sightseeing the attractive places, shopping and other activities...
Livingstone Festival (August)
Livingstone Festival is one of the famous festivals in Zambia. In fact, it is the biggest festival of Zambia. A historic colonial city, Livingstone is presently the capital of the Southern Province of Zambia...
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