If you’re looking for a quick run down of the best festivals to attend around the world, take a look at some of my other posts:

• • • Top 10 food festivals around the world
    • Festivals with the most spectacular visual experiences
    • Best places to experience Carnival
    • Weirdest festivals around the world

The above posts have specific themes, and descriptions of what you might experience. This is not that. This is a calendar of every single festival I mention in any of these posts, and many many more.

This calendar is perfect for those who have specific dates to travel and want to find out what exciting festival might be happening during this time. If you have a specific festival in mind, you can search for it and find out the correct dates and plan your trip around that. Or, just explore!

You may need to google to find out what on earth many of these events actually are – because trust me, there are some weird and wonderful ones on this list, and many more that you will never have heard of. I’ve categorised them into the following general types:

                 Music or Performance Festivals

                Food or Drink Festivals

                Carnivals and Parades

                Sports or Competitions

                Cultural Experiences

               Religious Festivals

                Celebrations of Historic Dates

                Arts or Visual Spectacles

                Animal or Nature Based Festivals

                Throwing Things – there’s a surprising amount of festivals that involve throwing things at each other, so much so that it needed its own category

                Weird and Wonderful – those completely bizarre festivals that don’t fit into any other category

Go ahead and delve right in to this comprehensive calendar of the world’s greatest festivals. (You’ll only see the colour coding once you’ve clicked through to view the calendar on Google.) If there’s any I’ve missed off, comment on this post and I’ll add it in!