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🇳🇿 Festivals in New Zealand

45 festivals celebrated in New Zealand, across 3 cities and towns.

Cities and towns

Auckland 5 Wellington 2 Christchurch 1

All Spiritual Cultural National days Seasonal Music Arts and film Sports

December 2026 1

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

July 2027 1

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

Usually in February, date not yet confirmed 1

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

Usually in March, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Marvaries Pasifika Festival🇳🇿 New Zealand and 6 more countries

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 1

Cultural Junvaries Pride Month🇨🇦 Canada and 7 more countries

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 New Zealand 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

April 2027 1

Cultural 22Apr Earth Day🇦🇱 Albania and 29 more countries

June 2027 1

Cultural 16Jun Bloomsday🇮🇪 Ireland and 13 more countries

Usually in June, date not yet confirmed 2

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

Cultural Junvaries Children's Day🇦🇲 Armenia and 30 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
Pasifika Festival: Heidi Meudt, CC BY 4.0, source
Children's Day: Post of USSR, Public domain, source
Te Matatini: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Earth Day: John McConnell (flag designer) NASA (Earth photograph) SiBr4 (flag ima, Public domain, source
Bloomsday: No machine-readable author provided. Flapdragon assumed (based on copy, Public domain, source
Pride Month: John Samuel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
The Twelfth: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
Black Friday: Silar, 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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