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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

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December 2026 1

Cultural 26Dec Boxing Day🇦🇺 Australia and 11 more countries

January 2027 1

Cultural 15Jan Wikipedia Day🇦🇺 San Francisco, Australia and 2 more countries

July 2027 1

Cultural 12Jul The Twelfth🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more countries

August 2027 1

Cultural 2Aug Picnic Day🇦🇺 Adelaide River, Australia

Usually in February, date not yet confirmed 2

Cultural Febvaries Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras🇦🇺 Sydney, Australia

Cultural Febvaries Te Matatini🇳🇿 New Zealand and 1 more country

Usually in August, date not yet confirmed 2

Cultural Augvaries Highland games🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 11 more countries

Cultural Augvaries Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 6 more countries

Shared with much of the world

Celebrated in Australia and in many other countries.

October 2026 1

Cultural 31Oct Halloween🇦🇺 Australia and 22 more countriesIn 4 weeks

November 2026 1

Cultural 27Nov Black Friday🇦🇱 Albania and 29 more countriesIn 8 weeks

February 2027 1

Cultural 7Feb Chinese New Year🇨🇳 China and 30 more countries

June 2027 1

Cultural 16Jun Bloomsday🇮🇪 Ireland and 13 more countries

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 3

Cultural Junvaries Father's Day🇩🇿 Algeria and 45 more countries

Cultural Junvaries Children's Day🇦🇲 Armenia and 30 more countries

Cultural Junvaries Pride parade🇦🇷 Argentina and 34 more countries

Usually in September, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Sepvaries Oktoberfest🇩🇪 Germany and 13 more countries

Photo credits on this page

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

Boxing Day: Chickenwaddle77, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Children's Day: Post of USSR, Public domain, source
Te Matatini: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Bloomsday: No machine-readable author provided. Flapdragon assumed (based on copy, Public domain, source
The Twelfth: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Picnic Day: Marylyn Nichols Collection, Northern Territory Library, Public domain, source
Halloween: Toby Ord, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
Father's Day: Jjsarto, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Chinese New Year: Myrabella, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Oktoberfest: Heribert Pohl, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Black Friday: Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras: Hasitha Tudugalle, CC BY 2.0, source
Pride parade: LLs, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Wikipedia Day: Thejoppyloppy, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Highland games: marsupium photography, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo: xlibber, CC BY 2.0, source

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