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🇦🇺 Festivals in Australia

85 festivals celebrated in Australia, across 13 cities and towns.

Cities and towns

Melbourne 11 Sydney 11 Perth 4 Adelaide 1 Adelaide River 1 Brisbane 1 Canberra 1 Coffs Harbour 1 Darlinghurst 1 Darwin 1 Glenelg North 1 Harts Range 1 Parramatta 1

All Spiritual Cultural National days Seasonal Music Arts and film Sports

Usually in February, date not yet confirmed 1

Arts and film Febvaries Tropfest🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 1

Arts and film Junvaries Sydney Film Festival🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia

Usually in August, date not yet confirmed 1

Arts and film Augvaries Melbourne International Film Festival🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia

Shared with much of the world

Celebrated in Australia and in many other countries.

November 2026 1

Arts and film 12Nov World Architecture Festival🇸🇬 Singapore and 29 more countriesIn 6 weeks

Usually in May, date not yet confirmed 1

Arts and film Mayvaries Venice Biennale🇮🇹 Italy and 29 more countries

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Venice Biennale: Naturpuur, CC BY 4.0, source
Sydney Film Festival: No machine-readable author provided. KittySaturn~commonswiki assumed (, Public domain, source
Tropfest: Johngpolson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
World Architecture Festival: Arne Müseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
Melbourne International Film Festival: Stephen Bain, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

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