🎉 Fiesta calendar

Philippine festivals by month

191 festivals across the Philippines, from Sinulog and Ati-Atihan in January to MassKara in October. Pick a month, an island group or a province, or search. Dates can change year to year, so each festival links to its source: check it before you go. On the map, open "Fiesta karong …" to see this month's festivals pinned on their towns, or tap "See on map" on any festival below.

Showing 14 of 191 festivals in October

Ati-Atihan Festival
📍 Kalibo, Aklan
Jan
🗓️ Week-long, culminating on the third Sunday of January
Kalibo's fiesta for the Santo Niño, where revelers in soot-blackened faces and tribal costumes dance to drums through the streets. Aklan's January Ati-Atihan season is its biggest draw.More ▾
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Bambanti Festival
📍 City of Ilagan, Isabela
Jan
🗓️ Late January (about one week)
Isabela's scarecrow (bambanti) festival at the Capitol, with a village of giant scarecrows from every town, street-dance showdown, food contests and the Queen Isabela pageant.More ▾
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Biniray Festival
📍 Romblon, Romblon
Jan
🗓️ Second week of January (Santo Niño feast)
Romblon town's Santo Niño fiesta, with street dancing and a fluvial procession of decorated boats carrying the image around the harbor.More ▾
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Dinagsa Festival
📍 Cadiz City, Negros Occidental
Jan
🗓️ Mid to late January (Jan 16–26 in 2026), street dance near the end
Cadiz City's Santo Niño festival with Ati-Atihan-style street dancing by painted, costumed tribes, culminating in a street-dance competition and fiesta Mass.More ▾
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Dinagyang Festival
📍 Iloilo City, Iloilo
Jan
🗓️ Fourth weekend of January; Ati tribe competition on the fourth Sunday
Iloilo City's Santo Niño festival, known for highly choreographed Ati 'tribes' in elaborate costumes performing to drumbeats in a judged street-dance competition.More ▾
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Feast of the Black Nazarene (Traslacion)
📍 Manila (Quiapo), Metro Manila – City of Manila, First District
Jan
🗓️ January 9, after a novena from Dec 31; procession starts at dawn
Barefoot devotees by the millions escort the Black Nazarene from Quirino Grandstand back to Quiapo Church. The procession often lasts more than 20 hours. Liquor and gun bans apply and roads close.More ▾
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Feast of the Santo Niño de Tondo
📍 Manila (Tondo), Metro Manila – City of Manila, First District
Jan
🗓️ Third Sunday of January; Lakbayaw street-dance procession the day before
Tondo's feast honors one of the country's oldest Santo Niño images. The Lakbayaw (lakbay + sayaw) procession brings dozens of dance groups to the streets around the church, now a minor basilica.More ▾
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Hinugyaw Festival
📍 Koronadal City, South Cotabato
Jan
🗓️ Early January, up to the January 10 founding anniversary
Koronadal City's founding anniversary festival, a week of street dancing, merrymaking and city events.More ▾
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Ibajay Ati-Atihan
📍 Ibajay, Aklan
Jan
🗓️ Late January, the weekend after Kalibo's Ati-Atihan
Ibajay's own Santo Niño fiesta, which locals call the original and more traditional Ati-Atihan: smaller, less commercial, with costumed tribes dancing through town.More ▾
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Kannawidan Ylocos Festival
📍 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
Jan–Feb
🗓️ Late January to mid-February, with Ilocos Sur's founding anniversary
Ilocos Sur's provincial festival of Ilocano culture: procession at St. Paul Cathedral, street dancing, boodle fights, heritage and trade exhibits.More ▾
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Kasadyahan sa Kabanwahanan
📍 Iloilo City, Iloilo
Jan
🗓️ Fourth Saturday of January, the day before the Dinagyang Ati contest
The provincial 'festival of festivals' held during Dinagyang week, where contingents from Iloilo towns perform their own festival dances in a street competition.More ▾
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Kuyamis Festival
📍 Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Jan
🗓️ About a week in mid-January, around the province's founding anniversary
Misamis Oriental's provincial festival named after the kuyamis coconut: street dancing by the towns, booths, a food expo and the Miss Kuyamis pageant.More ▾
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Pangisdaan Festival
📍 Navotas City, Metro Manila – Third District
Jan
🗓️ January, around Navotas Day (founding anniversary, Jan 16)
Navotas celebrates its fishing industry with a street-dance and float parade from City Hall, part of the city's founding-anniversary program.More ▾
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Pasalamat Festival
📍 Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur
Jan
🗓️ Week leading to the third Sunday of January (Jan 12–19 in 2026)
Pagadian's thanksgiving fiesta for the Señor Santo Niño: novena Masses, a fluvial procession, and street dancing and ritual dance competitions between barangays.More ▾
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Sakay-Sakay Festival
📍 Maasin City, Southern Leyte
Jan
🗓️ Third Sunday of January (moved to Jan 25 in 2026 due to a storm)
Maasin City's Santo Niño festival with a fluvial procession of decorated boats, street dancing and giant-puppet (higante) competitions.More ▾
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Sinulog Festival
📍 Cebu City, Cebu
Jan
🗓️ Third Sunday of January, with novena masses the 9 days before
Cebu's biggest festival honoring the Santo Niño: a fluvial procession, a huge solemn procession and an all-day grand parade of street-dance contingents performing the sinulog prayer-dance.More ▾
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Sinulog sa Kabankalan
📍 Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental
Jan
🗓️ Mid-January, about 10 days (Jan 10–19 in 2025)
Kabankalan's Santo Niño festival, one of the oldest Sinulog celebrations outside Cebu, known for its warrior-themed ritual street dancing and Miss Sinulog pageant.More ▾
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Ubi Festival
📍 Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Jan
🗓️ Mid-January
Bohol's celebration of ubi (purple yam), a provincial staple: an agricultural fair with ubi varieties, products and cooking contests.More ▾
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Vigan Longganisa Festival
📍 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
Jan
🗓️ Third week of January, around Vigan's cityhood day (Jan 22)
Vigan's city fiesta built around its garlicky longganisa: street dancing, cook-offs and food stalls at Plaza Burgos, ending with the feast of St. Paul on Jan 25.More ▾
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Aurora Day / Pasidayaw Festival
📍 Baler, Aurora
Feb
🗓️ First half of February, culminating Feb 19 (Doña Aurora's birthday)
Aurora's provincial celebration in Baler: surfing and skateboarding contests, trade fairs, food fiesta and parades, ending with rites and a fireworks show on Aurora Day.More ▾
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Bodong Festival (formerly Ullalim)
📍 Tabuk City, Kalinga
Feb
🗓️ Early to mid-February, ending on Kalinga's founding day (Feb 14)
Kalinga's founding-anniversary festival, renamed from Ullalim in 2016, centers on the bodong peace pact between tribes. It features gong dances, a parade and a trade fair at Capitol Park.More ▾
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Dagkot Festival
📍 Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte
Feb
🗓️ February 2
Cabadbaran City's annual festival, held every February 2, a local special non-working day in the city.More ▾
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Dia de Zamboanga
📍 Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur
Feb
🗓️ February 26 (city charter day), with events in the days before
Zamboanga City's charter anniversary, marking the 1937 swearing-in of its first city officials: a civic-military parade, food and film festivals and cheerdance contests.More ▾
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Guling-Guling Festival
📍 Paoay, Ilocos Norte
Feb–Mar
🗓️ The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (February or early March)
Paoay's pre-Lent celebration. The mayor marks a cross of rice flour on foreheads, and townsfolk in abel cloth dance in the streets near UNESCO-listed Paoay Church and share dudol.More ▾
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Iloilo Paraw Regatta
📍 Iloilo City (Arevalo), Iloilo
Feb–Mar
🗓️ Late February to early March; main race on a Sunday (March 2 in 2025)
Asia's oldest traditional sailboat race: colorful paraw outrigger sailboats race across the Iloilo Strait between Arevalo and Guimaras, with sail-painting and beach events.More ▾
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International Bamboo Organ Festival
📍 Las Piñas City, Metro Manila – Fourth District
Feb
🗓️ February, a series of concerts over about ten days
Concert series at St. Joseph Parish Church built around its 19th-century organ with bamboo pipes, featuring local and visiting organists, choirs and orchestras.More ▾
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Jaro Fiesta (Candelaria)
📍 Iloilo City (Jaro), Iloilo
Feb
🗓️ February 2
Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria at Jaro Cathedral, a national Marian shrine, with candle blessings, a procession and a Fiesta Queen parade in one of Iloilo's grandest fiestas.More ▾
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Musikahan Festival
📍 Tagum City, Davao del Norte
Feb–Mar
🗓️ Late February to early March, up to Araw ng Tagum (March 7)
Tagum's long-running music festival, held since 1999: chorale, rondalla, band and drumline competitions and concerts leading up to the city's anniversary.More ▾
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Pamulinawen Festival
📍 Laoag City, Ilocos Norte
Feb
🗓️ Early February, culminating on Feb 10 (feast of St. William)
Laoag's city fiesta, named after an Ilocano folk song, with street dancing, a kalesa parade, trade fairs and concerts in the city center.More ▾
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Panagbenga Festival
📍 Baguio City, Benguet
Feb–Mar
🗓️ All of February into early March; grand parades on the last weekend of Feb
Baguio's flower festival. The Grand Street Dance Parade and the Grand Floral Float Parade run along Session Road, followed by Session Road in Bloom with stalls on the closed-off road.More ▾
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Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta
📍 Capas (New Clark City), Tarlac
Feb
🗓️ A February weekend (Feb 13–15 in 2026)
Hot air balloon flights at dawn, special-shaped balloons, an evening balloon night glow, drone shows and aviation displays. It moved from Clark, Pampanga to New Clark City in Tarlac.More ▾
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Salakayan Festival
📍 Miagao, Iloilo
Feb
🗓️ First half of February (Feb 2–9 in 2025)
Miagao's town festival with street dancing and cultural events in the town known for its UNESCO-listed church; its Salakayan tribe has also competed in Kasadyahan.More ▾
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Say-am Festival
📍 Luna, Apayao
Feb
🗓️ February, culminating on Apayao's founding anniversary (Feb 14)
Apayao's provincial festival with Isnag dance showdowns, a float parade, indigenous games, an agro-tourism fair and a native-food cook fest.More ▾
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Sibug-Sibug Festival
📍 Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay
Feb
🗓️ Late February, leading to the Feb 24–26 founding anniversary
Zamboanga Sibugay's founding anniversary festival in Ipil: street dancing by the province's towns, parades and a long grill of talaba (oysters), the province's signature product.More ▾
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Tan-ok ni Ilocano Festival of Festivals
📍 Laoag City, Ilocos Norte
Feb
🗓️ February (recent editions); one-night showdown at the Laoag stadium
Ilocos Norte's festival of festivals: contingents from the province's 21 towns and 2 cities perform their festival dances in one competition at the Marcos stadium.More ▾
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Tinagba Festival
📍 Iriga City, Camarines Sur
Feb
🗓️ February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes
Iriga's harvest-offering festival mixing folk tradition and the Lourdes feast: decorated carts and floats with farm produce parade to the grotto as a first-harvest offering.More ▾
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Abrenian Kawayan Festival
📍 Bangued, Abra
Mar
🗓️ Early March (around Mar 6–9), Abra's founding anniversary week
Abra's bamboo festival: the closing grand parade has bamboo floats from all 27 towns, with trade fairs and cultural shows around the Capitol in Bangued.More ▾
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Ang Pagtaltal sa Balaan Bukid
📍 Jordan, Guimaras
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Good Friday (Holy Week), roughly noon to 3 PM
A live street-play of the Passion staged since 1975, moving from Jordan's town plaza up to the Balaan Bukid hilltop shrine, where the crucifixion scene draws thousands of pilgrims.More ▾
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Anilag Festival
📍 Santa Cruz, Laguna
Mar
🗓️ About one week in mid-to-late March
Laguna's 'mother of all festivals' (Ani ng Laguna): float and street-dance parades, an agri-trade fair, free produce giveaways, sports and concerts at the provincial sports complex.More ▾
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Araw ng Dabaw
📍 Davao City, Davao del Sur
Mar
🗓️ March 1–16, ending on the March 16 founding anniversary
Davao City's founding anniversary: two weeks of concerts, heritage walks, the Mutya ng Dabaw pageant, a fair at Magsaysay Park and the Parada Dabawenyo.More ▾
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Ayat Fest (La Union Founding Anniversary)
📍 San Fernando City, La Union
Mar
🗓️ Early March, around La Union's founding day (March 2)
La Union's provincial anniversary festival, with the SILAW street-dance showdown, open concerts and town showcases in San Fernando.More ▾
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Banigan Festival
📍 Libertad, Antique
Mar
🗓️ Second week of March
Libertad's celebration of its banig (woven mat) industry, with a street dance competition in mat-inspired costumes, a bariw weaving contest, an agri-trade fair and the town fiesta masses.More ▾
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Bulawan Festival
📍 Nabunturan, Davao de Oro
Mar
🗓️ Early March, at the provincial capitol
Davao de Oro's gold festival ("bulawan" means gold), held at the capitol grounds in Nabunturan, featuring the Binibining Davao de Oro pageant.More ▾
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First Mass Day (Limasawa)
📍 Limasawa, Southern Leyte
Mar
🗓️ March 31
Commemoration of the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Easter Sunday 1521, held on Limasawa Island with a Mass and lantern rites; a provincial special holiday.More ▾
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Healing Festival
📍 Siquijor (Mt. Bandilaan), Siquijor
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Holy Week, centered on Good Friday and Black Saturday
Traditional healers (mananambal) and herbalists gather on Mt. Bandilaan to prepare herbal potions and perform folk-healing rituals, drawing visitors curious about Siquijor's mystic traditions.More ▾
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Kaamulan Festival
📍 Malaybalay City, Bukidnon
Mar–Apr
🗓️ About a month from mid-March into April (opened March 19 in 2026)
Bukidnon's gathering of its seven indigenous tribes: rituals at the capitol grounds, ethnic street dancing and showcases of Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo and other cultures.More ▾
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Kalap Festival
📍 Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro
Mar
🗓️ Around March 21, Calapan's founding anniversary
Calapan's official festival, from 'kalap' (to gather): street dancing about farming, fishing and forest gathering, a grand parade, trade fairs and a bangkathon outrigger race.More ▾
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Moriones Festival
📍 Boac, Mogpog, Gasan, Santa Cruz and other towns, Marinduque
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Holy Week (Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday)
Masked 'moryons' dressed as Roman soldiers roam the towns all week, re-enacting the story of Longinus. His capture and beheading (pugutan) are staged near the end of Holy Week.More ▾
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Panaad
📍 Catarman, Camiguin
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Holy Week (Maundy Thursday to Good Friday)
Holy Week pilgrimage in which devotees walk the island's 64-km circumferential road, ending with a climb up Mt. Vulcan's Stations of the Cross in Catarman.More ▾
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Panaad sa Negros Festival
📍 Bacolod City, Negros Occidental
Mar–Apr
🗓️ One week in late March or April (Mar 24–30, 2025; Apr 13–19, 2026)
Negros Occidental's 'festival of festivals' at Panaad Park, where every city and town builds a showcase booth and competes with its festival dance; food, trade fairs and concerts.More ▾
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Pasayaw Festival
📍 Canlaon City, Negros Oriental
Mar
🗓️ March 19, feast of St. Joseph
Canlaon's thanksgiving-through-dance for its patron St. Joseph: dancers carry the vegetables and crops of this upland farming city at the foot of Kanlaon Volcano.More ▾
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San Pedro Cutud Lenten Rites
📍 City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Good Friday (Holy Week, March or April)
Via Crucis street play that ends with devotees being nailed to crosses in Barangay San Pedro Cutud. Flagellants walk the streets in the days before. Expect large crowds and heat.More ▾
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Strawberry Festival
📍 La Trinidad, Benguet
Mar–Apr
🗓️ Month-long through March, sometimes running into the first days of April
La Trinidad's harvest festival for its strawberry farms: street dancing and float parade, contests for the heaviest and sweetest berries, and a giant strawberry cake sliced and sold to visitors.More ▾
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Tabak Festival
📍 Tabaco City, Albay
Mar
🗓️ Third week of March, ending on Tabaco's founding anniversary
Week-long Tabaco City festival showing the city's tabak (bolo) and cutlery-making industry, with street dancing and trade exhibits.More ▾
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Tobacco Festival
📍 Candon City, Ilocos Sur
Mar
🗓️ Last week of March, with the city fiesta and Cry of Candon anniversary
Candon's week-long tobacco festival with street dancing, the Miss Tobacco Philippines pageant and a giant Candon calamay rice cake.More ▾
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Aklan Provincial Anniversary & Piña-Fiber Festival
📍 Kalibo, Aklan
Apr–May
🗓️ Around April 25 (provincial founding), activities into early May
Aklan's founding-anniversary celebration at the Kalibo capitol, with a fiber festival and trade fair showcasing piña cloth and abaca weaving, plus food and agricultural fairs and a fashion show.More ▾
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Antipolo Maytime Pilgrimage (Alay Lakad)
📍 Antipolo City, Rizal
Apr–May
🗓️ Overnight April 30 to May 1; Maytime fiesta and Sumakah fest in May
Hundreds of thousands walk about 24 km from Quiapo to the shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage. The Sumakah street festival (suman, mangga, kasoy, hamaka) follows on May 1.More ▾
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Bangus Festival
📍 Dagupan City, Pangasinan
Apr–May
🗓️ April to May 1; Bangusan street party on April 30
Dagupan's milkfish festival, with a street party where thousands of bangus are grilled along the highway and a closing at Tondaligan beach.More ▾
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Bantayog Festival
📍 Daet, Camarines Norte
Apr–May
🗓️ Mid-April to early May, with the provincial founding anniversary
Camarines Norte's founding-anniversary festival, also marking the 1898 Daet Revolt. Surfing cup, arnis festival, music festival and street dancing.More ▾
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Capiztahan Festival
📍 Roxas City, Capiz
Apr
🗓️ April, starting around April 15 (provincial founding anniversary)
Capiz's provincial founding-anniversary festival honoring Manuel Roxas, with cultural shows, trade fairs and the Surambaw seafood feast in the self-styled Seafood Capital of the Philippines.More ▾
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Dinamulag Festival
📍 Iba, Zambales
Apr–May
🗓️ April or May, at mango season's peak (May 21–24 in 2025)
Zambales' mango festival centered on the Capitol in Iba: fun run, mango congress, cooking contests, street dancing and a closing float parade.More ▾
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Hugyaw sa Kadagatan
📍 Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte
Apr
🗓️ Around April 24–25, Kauswagan's founding anniversary
Kauswagan's sea festival honoring San Vicente Ferrer, a thanksgiving for the town's catch with street dancing and boat events at the municipal pier.More ▾
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Imbayah Festival
📍 Banaue, Ifugao
Apr
🗓️ Late April; not held every year (Urpih town fiesta in off years)
Banaue's Ifugao cultural festival with a barangay parade, street dancing, native games such as wooden-scooter races, and rice-wine thanksgiving rites. Check with Banaue LGU whether it runs this year.More ▾
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Kadaugan sa Mactan
📍 Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu
Apr
🗓️ April 27, with festivities through April
Commemoration of Lapulapu's 1521 victory over Magellan, highlighted by a beach reenactment of the Battle of Mactan at the Liberty Shrine in Barangay Mactan.More ▾
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Lang-ay Festival
📍 Bontoc, Mountain Province
Apr
🗓️ Early April, with Mountain Province's founding anniversary
Named after the toast 'lang-ay' (to good health), the festival brings the province's towns together for a parade, indigenous dances, rice-wine sharing and a trade fair. The 2026 edition was scaled down.More ▾
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Liliw Gat Tayaw Tsinelas Festival
📍 Liliw, Laguna
Apr
🗓️ Late April (about three days)
Liliw's festival for its slipper-making industry: a footwear trade fair along the main road, giant tsinelas displays, marching bands and a costume parade.More ▾
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Mango-Bamboo Festival
📍 San Carlos City, Pangasinan
Apr
🗓️ April
San Carlos City's trade festival for its mango orchards and bamboo craft, with mango-food competitions, a bamboo products fair and street dancing.More ▾
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Pandurucan Festival
📍 San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
Apr–May
🗓️ Indak Pandurucan street dance Apr 29; festival day May 1
San Jose's town festival: the Indak Pandurucan street-dancing competition, then a lantern parade and concerts at the municipal plaza.More ▾
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Pista'y Dayat
📍 Lingayen, Pangasinan
Apr–May
🗓️ April into early May, culminating May 1 at the Capitol beachfront
Pangasinan's 'festival of the sea' thanks the sea for its bounty. It ends with a thanksgiving Mass and street-dance showcase at Lingayen's Capitol beachfront, and the Limgas na Pangasinan pageant runs alongside.More ▾
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Rodeo Masbateño
📍 Masbate City, Masbate
Apr
🗓️ April, competitions usually in the second week
Masbate's cattle-country rodeo: riders from ranches and schools compete in bull riding, lassoing, steer wrestling and other events, with a parade on horseback.More ▾
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Saulog Festival
📍 Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Apr–May
🗓️ Late April events, culminating May 1 (feast of St. Joseph the Worker)
Tagbilaran City's fiesta festival for St. Joseph the Worker, with a street-dancing showdown, fluvial parade, pageant and the Maoy sa Mayo concert.More ▾
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Tanduyong Festival
📍 San Jose City, Nueva Ecija
Apr
🗓️ April (fourth Sunday)
San Jose City's onion festival, named after the local tanduyong onion, with street dancing and agri-trade events celebrating the harvest.More ▾
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Tiringbanay Festival
📍 San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
Apr–May
🗓️ Mid-April to May 1, feast of St. Joseph the Worker
The provincial capital's thanksgiving festival for its patron St. Joseph the Worker, revived after the pandemic with street dancing and town fiesta events.More ▾
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Turumba Festival
📍 Pakil, Laguna
Apr–May
🗓️ April–May; dates move each year with the Lenten calendar
Pakil's devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows (Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Turumba), with dancing processions where devotees sing and sway behind the image.More ▾
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Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival of the Arts
📍 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
Apr–May
🗓️ Last week of April to the first week of May
Vigan's arts festival, named after the beating of cotton for abel weaving: Binatbatan street dancing, a calesa parade, Santacruzan, an abel fashion show and art in the park.More ▾
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Abaca Festival
📍 Virac, Catanduanes
May
🗓️ Late May (dates have shifted between years)
Catanduanes, the Abaca Capital of the Philippines, celebrates the fiber: float parade, festival dance contest, pinukpok (abaca cloth) fashion show and trade fair.More ▾
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Balangay Festival
📍 Butuan City, Agusan del Norte
May
🗓️ May, culminating on May 19
Butuan celebrates the ancient balangay boats unearthed in the city, among the oldest watercraft found in Southeast Asia, with cultural events and festivities.More ▾
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Bolibong Kingking Festival
📍 Loboc, Bohol
May
🗓️ May 23–24
Loboc's religious music festival honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe: dancers play drums (bolibong) and gongs (kingking) in rhythm through the streets of the river town.More ▾
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Carabao-Carroza Festival
📍 Pavia, Iloilo
May
🗓️ Early May (traditionally May 3)
Pavia's farmers' festival since 1971: carabaos in headdresses pull decorated bamboo sleds (carrozas) in a parade, followed by carabao races and a festival queen contest.More ▾
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Grand Ammungan Festival
📍 Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya
May
🗓️ Late May, around Nueva Vizcaya's founding anniversary
Nueva Vizcaya's provincial festival (formerly Panagyaman), gathering its Ilocano, Ifugao, Gaddang and other communities for street dancing, a food and coffee fair and weaving showcases.More ▾
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Helobung Festival
📍 Lake Sebu, South Cotabato
May
🗓️ Late May, three days (May 29–31 in 2024); was held in November in earlier years
Lake Sebu's T'boli festival of merrymaking ("helobung"), with indigenous dance and music and a spotlight on the town's Manlilikha ng Bayan master artists.More ▾
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Hudyaka Festival
📍 Naval, Biliran
May
🗓️ May 11, Biliran provincehood anniversary (cancelled in 2026)
Province-wide celebration of Biliran's founding as a province, with festivities centered in the capital, Naval.More ▾
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Ibabao Festival
📍 Catarman, Northern Samar
May–Jun
🗓️ Late May to mid-June, ending near the June 19 founding anniversary
Northern Samar's month-long anniversary festival with a float parade, agri-tourism trade fair and a festival-of-festivals contest among the province's towns.More ▾
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Kaogma Festival
📍 Pili, Camarines Sur
May
🗓️ Last week of May, around the province's founding anniversary
Camarines Sur's provincial festival ('kaogma' means joy) at the Capitol in Pili: concerts, parades, mud races, food fairs and the Miss Kaogma pageant.More ▾
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Kneeling Carabao Festival
📍 Pulilan, Bulacan
May
🗓️ May 14, eve of the feast of San Isidro Labrador
Hundreds of decorated carabaos parade through Pulilan and kneel on command in front of the San Isidro Labrador church as thanks for the harvest.More ▾
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Magayon Festival
📍 Legazpi City and Albay towns, Albay
May
🗓️ Month-long in May (the 2026 edition was cancelled)
Albay's provincial festival named after Daragang Magayon, the legend behind Mayon Volcano: street dancing, a pageant, trade fairs and faith-tourism events.More ▾
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Manggahan Festival
📍 Jordan, Guimaras
May
🗓️ About 10 days in mid–late May, around provincehood day (May 22)
Guimaras's mango festival timed with its provincehood anniversary: a parade, trade fair and the popular eat-all-you-can mango sessions featuring the island's famously sweet mangoes.More ▾
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Mantawi Festival
📍 Mandaue City, Cebu
May
🗓️ Around May 7, Mandaue's fiesta for St. Joseph the Worker
Mandaue City's fiesta festival named after the mantawi vine, a symbol of the city's unity, with street dancing and civic parades.More ▾
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Mayohan sa Tayabas
📍 Tayabas City, Quezon
May
🗓️ About May 7–15; Hagisan ng Suman on May 15
Tayabas' San Isidro fiesta. Thousands of suman (rice cakes) and other produce are thrown from the Casa Comunidad balcony and houses to the crowd during the procession.More ▾
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Obando Fertility Dance (Feast of the Three Saints)
📍 Obando, Bulacan
May
🗓️ May 17–19, one day each for three patron saints
Devotees dance in procession for San Pascual Baylon, Santa Clara and Nuestra Señora de Salambao, asking for a spouse or a child.More ▾
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Pahiyas Festival
📍 Lucban, Quezon
May
🗓️ May 15, feast of San Isidro Labrador
Lucban houses along the procession route are decked out in colored kiping (rice wafers), fruit and vegetables as thanks for the harvest. Best seen early before the crowds build.More ▾
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Saging Festival
📍 Lazi, Siquijor
May
🗓️ Mid-May, during the Lazi town fiesta
Lazi's banana harvest festival: street dances act out the fruit's cycle from planting to harvest, coinciding with the fiesta of the town known for its heritage church and convent.More ▾
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Sarangani Bay Festival (SarBay Fest)
📍 Glan, Sarangani
May
🗓️ Around the third weekend of May
Large beach festival at Gumasa Beach in Glan with concerts, water sports and fireworks, plus coastal cleanups for the protected Sarangani Bay seascape.More ▾
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Adlaw ng Southern Leyte
📍 Maasin City, Southern Leyte
Jun–Jul
🗓️ Late June to July 1 (provincial founding day)
Southern Leyte's founding-anniversary celebration in the capital, with agri-fish fairs, cultural shows and festival presentations from the province's towns.More ▾
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Aggao Nac Cagayan
📍 Tuguegarao City, Cagayan
Jun
🗓️ June, culminating on Cagayan Day (June 29)
Month-long provincial celebration of Cagayan's 1583 founding, with street dancing, trade fairs, sports and cultural events in Tuguegarao and other towns.More ▾
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Baragatan sa Palawan
📍 Puerto Princesa City (Provincial Capitol), Palawan
Jun
🗓️ Most of June, marking Palawan's founding anniversary (June 23)
Palawan's provincial festival at the Capitol grounds: Caraenan food fair, agri-trade booths from every town, sports, and the Saraotan sa Dalan street-dance competition.More ▾
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Gotad ad Ifugao
📍 Province-wide, Ifugao
Jun
🗓️ Mid-June, around Ifugao's founding anniversary
Ifugao's provincial founding celebration. 'Gotad' is a thanksgiving feast, and towns present native dances, chants, rituals and games.More ▾
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Kaliguan Festival
📍 Cagwait, Surigao del Sur
Jun
🗓️ Late June, around June 24 (feast of St. John the Baptist)
Three-day beach festival in Cagwait held in honor of St. John the Baptist.More ▾
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Kinsan Festival
📍 Aloguinsan, Cebu
Jun
🗓️ June, around the town fiesta (second Sunday of June)
Aloguinsan's festival named after the kinsan (dotted grouper) fish abundant in its waters, celebrated alongside the fiesta of St. Raphael the Archangel.More ▾
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Lami-Lamihan Festival
📍 Lamitan City, Basilan
Jun
🗓️ Late June (opened June 26 in 2025)
Lamitan's festival of Yakan culture and Christian-Muslim harmony, opening with rites at the Datu Kalun Shrine and a parade of residents in hand-woven Yakan attire.More ▾
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Naliyagan Festival
📍 Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur
Jun
🗓️ June 12 to June 17 (province founding anniversary)
Agusan del Sur's week-long festival honoring the Manobo and other tribes, with rituals, a tribal parade, street dancing and displays of local crafts.More ▾
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Parada ng Lechon
📍 Balayan, Batangas
Jun
🗓️ June 24, feast of St. John the Baptist
Dozens of costumed roast pigs are paraded through Balayan amid street dancing and water dousing (basaan) for St. John the Baptist.More ▾
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Pili Festival
📍 Sorsogon City, Sorsogon
Jun
🗓️ June, leading to the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29)
Sorsogon City's fiesta for the pili nut, with a street dance in pili-inspired costumes and pili products sold around the city.More ▾
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Piña Festival
📍 Ormoc City, Leyte
Jun
🗓️ June, street dance and ritual showdown in the latter half of June
Ormoc's festival celebrating its famously sweet Queen pineapple, with street dancing, a ritual showdown and fiesta events.More ▾
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Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival
📍 Tacloban City, Leyte
Jun
🗓️ Late June, festival of festivals around June 27–29
Tacloban's fiesta for the Señor Santo Niño: dancers painted like the tattooed 'pintados' warriors, plus a festival-of-festivals parade of Leyte town contingents.More ▾
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Pinyasan Festival
📍 Daet, Camarines Norte
Jun
🗓️ Mid-to-late June (about June 15–24)
Daet's festival for the sweet Formosa pineapple: float parade, street dancing, an agro-industrial fair, free pineapples and the Miss Pinyasan pageant.More ▾
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Regada Water Festival
📍 Cavite City, Cavite
Jun
🗓️ Several days, culminating June 24 (feast of St. John the Baptist)
Cavite City's water festival. Sprinklers and fire trucks drench revelers along P. Burgos Avenue, with street dancing, concerts and food stalls on the days before.More ▾
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Sangyaw Festival
📍 Tacloban City, Leyte
Jun
🗓️ June 29, eve of the Tacloban grand fiesta
Tacloban's night-time Parade of Lights with illuminated floats and dance contingents winding through downtown streets to the Balyuan Amphitheater.More ▾
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Saulog Festival
📍 Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte
Jun
🗓️ First week of June, culminating on the June 6 founding anniversary
Zamboanga del Norte's week-long founding anniversary thanksgiving, with a trade fair, concerts, cultural performing arts contests, a pageant and fireworks.More ▾
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Sinukmani Festival
📍 Rosario, Batangas
Jun
🗓️ June 9 (town founding anniversary), with events the days before
Rosario sets a table hundreds of meters long with sinukmani (caramel-topped sticky rice cake) for the town to share, with street dancing and concerts.More ▾
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Taong Putik Festival
📍 Aliaga (Barangay Bibiclat), Nueva Ecija
Jun
🗓️ June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist
Before dawn, devotees cover themselves in rice-field mud and dried banana leaves, then walk to the church for Mass. Asking for candles and a play on the saint's life follow.More ▾
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Vunung Festival (Batanes Day)
📍 Basco, Batanes
Jun
🗓️ Week leading to Batanes Day, June 26
Batanes' founding-anniversary celebration, named after the vunung (food wrapped in kabaya leaves). Pageants, sports, Ivatan cultural shows and farm and fishery exhibits.More ▾
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Wattah Wattah Festival
📍 San Juan City, Metro Manila – Second District
Jun
🗓️ June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist
San Juan's 'basaan' festival honors its patron with water dousing. Since 2025 the dousing is limited to a set zone on Pinaglabanan Road during set morning hours, alongside a parade and dance contest.More ▾
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Bocaue Pagoda Festival
📍 Bocaue, Bulacan
Jul
🗓️ First Sunday of July
River procession on the Bocaue River for the Holy Cross of Wawa, carried on a decorated pagoda barge escorted by boats. Revived in 2014 after a 1993 barge disaster.More ▾
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Gakit Festival
📍 Valencia City, Bukidnon
Jul
🗓️ July, three days (main raft race around July 12)
Valencia's river festival on the Pulangi River, with races of decorated bamboo rafts (gakit) like those once used to ferry people and goods across the river.More ▾
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Ibid Festival
📍 Caibiran, Biliran
Jul
🗓️ July 25, Caibiran town fiesta
Caibiran's town fiesta festival on the east coast of Biliran Island, with street dancing and community celebrations.More ▾
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Kadagayaan Festival
📍 Tagum City, Davao del Norte
Jul
🗓️ Around July 1, Davao del Norte's founding anniversary
Davao del Norte's anniversary festival of bounty ("dagaya"): a civic parade, agri-aqua trade fair, dance competitions, cultural shows and fireworks.More ▾
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Kahimunan Abayan Festival
📍 Butuan City, Agusan del Norte
Jul
🗓️ Late July, opening Butuan's charter day celebration
Fluvial procession of decorated boats on the Agusan River for Santa Ana, long invoked by river communities for protection, with dancing on the riverbanks.More ▾
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Kinabayo Festival
📍 Dapitan City, Zamboanga del Norte
Jul
🗓️ Around July 25, feast of St. James the Greater
Dapitan's fiesta for St. James, featuring a costumed pageant on horseback re-enacting the Spanish-Moorish wars, plus processions and Masses.More ▾
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Padigosan Festival
📍 Digos City, Davao del Sur
Jul
🗓️ Mid-July, culminating on the July 19 founding anniversary
Digos City's founding anniversary festival, with street dancing, cultural shows, a trade fair, sports events and a lechon parade.More ▾
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Pakaradiyaan o Sarimanok
📍 Marawi City, Lanao del Sur
Jul
🗓️ Month of July, for the province's founding anniversary
Lanao del Sur's month-long anniversary festival of Maranao culture: a Pagana Maranao feast, kulintang and traditional dance, a culinary fair and Qur'an recitation.More ▾
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Sagayan Festival
📍 Tubod, Lanao del Norte
Jul
🗓️ First days of July, for the province's founding anniversary
Lanao del Norte's anniversary festival built around the sagayan, a Maranao war dance drawn from the Darangen epic, performed by contingents from every town.More ▾
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Sandugo Festival
📍 Tagbilaran City, Bohol
Jul
🗓️ Throughout July, street dancing and parades mid-to-late July
Bohol's month-long festival commemorating the 1565 blood compact between Datu Sikatuna and Legazpi, with a reenactment, street-dance competition, trade fairs and concerts.More ▾
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Subayan Keg Subanen Festival
📍 Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental
Jul
🗓️ July 16 (Ozamiz charter day and feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel)
Street dancing and tableau competition depicting Subanen life through song, dance and costume, held on Ozamiz City's charter anniversary.More ▾
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Sublian Festival
📍 Batangas City, Batangas
Jul
🗓️ Two weeks in July, culminating July 23 (city founding anniversary)
Batangas City's festival around the subli devotional dance for the Holy Cross and Santo Niño, with street dancing, a float parade and native games.More ▾
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T'nalak Festival
📍 Koronadal City, South Cotabato
Jul
🗓️ About a week in mid-July, ending on July 18 (province founding day)
South Cotabato's anniversary festival named after the T'boli's dream-woven abaca cloth, with street dancing, a weaving exhibit, farm and food fairs.More ▾
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Bugwas Festival
📍 San Juan, Siquijor
Aug
🗓️ Late August, town fiesta of St. Augustine (Aug 28)
San Juan's town fiesta festival for St. Augustine of Hippo, with street dancing and community feasting; started in 2006.More ▾
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Buyogan Festival
📍 Abuyog, Leyte
Aug
🗓️ Mid-August (listed as August 19)
Abuyog's festival inspired by the buyog (bee), the source of the town's name; dancers in bee costumes mimic swarming bees. A frequent Kasadyaan champion.More ▾
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Haladaya Festival
📍 Daanbantayan, Cebu
Aug
🗓️ August 21–30, ending with street dancing
Daanbantayan's festival honoring Datu Daya, the town's legendary founder, with street-dance performances in northern Cebu, gateway to Malapascua Island.More ▾
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Higalaay Festival
📍 Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental
Aug
🗓️ Throughout August; peaks Aug 26–28, feast of St. Augustine
Cagayan de Oro's city fiesta and charter celebration: street dancing, a civic-military parade and a fluvial procession on the Cagayan River for St. Augustine.More ▾
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Hudyaka sa Panglao
📍 Panglao, Bohol
Aug
🗓️ August 28
Panglao's fiesta festival held on the parish church grounds, where the town's ten barangays compete in a street-dance showdown.More ▾
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Ibalong Festival
📍 Legazpi City, Albay
Aug–Sep
🗓️ Mid/late August into early September (Aug 21–Sep 6 in 2025)
Legazpi's festival based on the Bicolano epic Ibalong. Street dancers dress as the heroes Baltog, Handyong and Bantong and the monsters they fought. Concerts and a tattoo expo also run.More ▾
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Kadayawan Festival
📍 Davao City, Davao del Sur
Aug
🗓️ August, main weekend in the third week (Aug 15–17 in 2025)
Davao City's thanksgiving for the harvest and its indigenous cultures: a tribal village, food fairs, the Indak-Indak street dance and the Pamulak floral float parade.More ▾
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Kalivungan Festival
📍 Kidapawan City, Cotabato
Aug–Sep
🗓️ August 26 to September 1, the province's founding anniversary
Cotabato Province's anniversary festival of its tri-people at the capitol in Amas, Kidapawan: street dancing by the towns, drum and lyre contests and a travel and trade expo.More ▾
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Manaragat Festival
📍 Catbalogan City, Samar
Aug
🗓️ Late August, around August 24 (feast of St. Bartholomew)
Catbalogan's sea festival honoring its patron St. Bartholomew and Maqueda Bay's fishing heritage, with a dance parade, cultural shows and an agricultural fair.More ▾
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Niyogyugan Festival
📍 Lucena City, Quezon
Aug
🗓️ Mid-August, ending on Quezon Day (Aug 19)
Quezon province's coconut festival. Town pavilions at the Capitol grounds show local products, and the grand parade and street dancing fall on Manuel L. Quezon's birthday.More ▾
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Pasaka Festival
📍 Tanauan, Leyte
Aug
🗓️ August 14, eve of the Assumption
Tanauan's festival honoring Our Lady of the Assumption ('Pasaka' in Waray), with street dancing and fiesta celebrations.More ▾
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Pasidungog sa Sugbo (formerly Pasigarbo sa Sugbo)
📍 Cebu City, Cebu
Aug
🗓️ Late August, part of the province's founding-anniversary month
Cebu Province's festival of festivals where town contingents perform their ritual dances. Pasigarbo was cancelled in 2025; a non-competitive Pasidungog showcase replaced it in 2026.More ▾
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Pavvurulun Afi Festival
📍 Tuguegarao City, Cagayan
Aug
🗓️ First half of August, ending on the feast of San Jacinto (Aug 16)
Tuguegarao's city fiesta ('afi' is Ybanag for fire), with a fire-themed street dance, food and trade fairs, band concerts and civic parades.More ▾
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Samar Day Festival of Festivals
📍 Catbalogan City, Samar
Aug
🗓️ August 11, with festivities in the days before
Samar's founding-day celebration at the provincial capitol, where town festival contingents compete and the Mutya han Samar pageant is held.More ▾
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Sirong Festival
📍 Cantilan, Surigao del Sur
Aug
🗓️ Mid-August, days before the town fiesta
Cantilan's ethnic street dancing festival, held before the town fiesta since 2004 and revived in 2023.More ▾
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Timpupo Festival
📍 Kidapawan City, Cotabato
Aug
🗓️ August, during the fruit harvest season
Kidapawan's fruit harvest festival ("timpupo" is Manobo for abundant harvest), known for fruit float parades and eat-all-you-can durian, marang and mangosteen.More ▾
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Adlaw sa Probinsya (Solili Festival)
📍 Siquijor, Siquijor
Sep
🗓️ Mid-September, around September 17 (provincial charter day)
Siquijor's provincial charter-day celebration with a grand parade, the Solili dance festival based on a traditional courtship custom, and a talent night.More ▾
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Agal-Agal Festival
📍 Bongao, Tawi-Tawi
Sep
🗓️ Around September 25, during Kamahardikaan (province founding anniversary)
Tawi-Tawi's seaweed (agal-agal) festival, part of its founding anniversary, with Igal street dancing and a pageant in native costume. Host town can vary.More ▾
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Balangiga Encounter Day
📍 Balangiga, Eastern Samar
Sep
🗓️ September 28 (provincial special holiday)
Commemoration of the 1901 attack by Balangiga townsfolk on U.S. troops, with a reenactment of the encounter; the church bells taken as war trophies were returned in 2018.More ▾
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Banigan-Kawayan Festival
📍 Basey, Samar
Sep
🗓️ September 29
Basey's celebration of its banig mat-weaving and bamboo crafts, near the Sohoton Natural Bridge park.More ▾
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Bonok-Bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw Festival
📍 Surigao City, Surigao del Norte
Sep
🗓️ Early September, main street dancing on Sept 9; feast of San Nicolas Sept 10
Surigao City's thanksgiving for San Nicolas de Tolentino, rooted in Mamanwa and Manobo rain dances; known for its street dancing competition and grand showdown.More ▾
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Bugkosan sa Isla Festival
📍 San Jose, Dinagat Islands
Sep–Oct
🗓️ Last week of September to early October, around the Oct 2 charter anniversary
Dinagat Islands' week-long charter anniversary festival ("bugkosan" means to bind), bringing together the province's seven towns for culture and arts events.More ▾
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Dahunog sa Dipolog
📍 Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte
Sep–Oct
🗓️ Late September to early October
Dipolog's drum-and-band festival: marching bands from the city and nearby towns parade and compete in an invitational beat and dance parade.More ▾
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Diyandi Festival
📍 Iligan City, Lanao del Norte
Sep
🗓️ Throughout September; peaks on Sept 29, feast of St. Michael
Iligan's fiesta for St. Michael the Archangel, with street dancing and tableau competitions reflecting the city's Higaonon, Maranao and settler heritage.More ▾
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Gapnod Festival
📍 Almeria, Biliran
Sep
🗓️ September 1
Almeria's town festival on Biliran Island's west coast, marked with street dancing and fiesta celebrations.More ▾
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Hadang Festival
📍 Calbayog City, Samar
Sep
🗓️ September 1–8, culminating in the September 8 city fiesta
Calbayog's festival based on the hadang, an old ritual dance offered for good harvest and healing; formerly Sarakiki-Hadang, it became the official city festival in 2025.More ▾
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Hudyaka sa Bais
📍 Bais City, Negros Oriental
Sep
🗓️ Around September 10, feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino
Bais City's thanksgiving festival of harvests for its patron saint, with street dancing including a fishermen's showdown celebrating the year's catch.More ▾
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Megayon Festival
📍 Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur
Sep
🗓️ Late September, for the province's founding anniversary
Provincial festival at the capitol complex celebrating the solidarity of Zamboanga del Sur's cultural groups, with trade fairs and showcases of each town's own festival.More ▾
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Padul-ong Festival
📍 Borongan City, Eastern Samar
Sep
🗓️ Early September, leading to the September 8 feast
Borongan's Marian festival reenacting the image's arrival, with a fluvial parade across the bay from Punta Maria, a procession to the cathedral and a street-dance competition.More ▾
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Panagdadapun Festival
📍 Cabarroguis, Quirino
Sep
🗓️ Early September, peaking on Quirino Foundation Day (Sept 10)
Quirino's founding-anniversary festival ('gathering'), where each of the six towns brings its own festival dance to a street-dancing competition, plus a crafts fair and sports.More ▾
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Peñafrancia Festival
📍 Naga City, Camarines Sur
Sep
🗓️ September: Traslacion on the 2nd Friday, fluvial procession before the 3rd Sunday
One of Asia's largest Marian feasts. All-male voyadores carry the image of Ina (Our Lady of Peñafrancia) to the cathedral, and nine days later it returns by fluvial procession on the Naga River.More ▾
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Sinanggiyaw Festival
📍 Dumanjug, Cebu
Sep–Oct
🗓️ Late September to early October, ending on the Oct 3–4 town fiesta
Dumanjug's harvest thanksgiving dance for St. Francis of Assisi; its name blends 'sinanggi' (abundant harvest) and 'sayaw' (dance).More ▾
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Singkaban Festival
📍 City of Malolos, Bulacan
Sep
🗓️ First half of September, marking the Malolos Congress anniversary (Sept 15)
Bulacan's provincial arts and culture festival, named after the bamboo welcome arch. Float parade (Parada ng Karosa), cultural shows, food fairs and concerts.More ▾
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Talakudong Festival
📍 Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat
Sep
🗓️ Around September 18, Tacurong's charter anniversary
Tacurong's cityhood festival of street dancing and field demonstrations, featuring brightly painted kudong headgear like those worn by early settlers.More ▾
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Tuna Festival
📍 General Santos City, South Cotabato
Sep
🗓️ First week of September, around the city's Sept 5 charter day
General Santos, the country's tuna capital, celebrates its fishing industry and charter anniversary with a week of street dancing, parades and tuna food fairs.More ▾
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Zamboanga Hermosa Festival (Fiesta Pilar)
📍 Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur
Sep–Oct
🗓️ Late September to October; feast of Our Lady of the Pillar on October 12
Month-long fiesta for the city's patroness, Nuestra Señora La Virgen del Pilar, with a parade of lights, street dancing, a vinta regatta and dozens of cultural and sports events.More ▾
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Bagasumbol Festival
📍 Naval, Biliran
Oct
🗓️ First Saturday of October, during Naval's town fiesta
The provincial capital's festival celebrating the coming of Christianity to Naval, with street dancing by town contingents and the 'Tsinelas Party' street party.More ▾
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Banayan Festival
📍 Banaybanay, Davao Oriental
Oct
🗓️ October (month-long)
Banaybanay's thanksgiving for a bountiful rice harvest, also honoring the town's early settlers.More ▾
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Buglasan Festival
📍 Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental
Oct
🗓️ About 10 days in mid–late October, main showdown day is a holiday
Negros Oriental's 'festival of festivals' in Dumaguete, where contingents from the province's towns and cities compete in street dancing and showdowns, with food and trade fairs.More ▾
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Kaimunan Festival
📍 Tagum City, Davao del Norte
Oct
🗓️ Early October, culminating on October 10
Gathering of Tagum's Mansaka, Mandaya and Kalagan peoples with migrant tribes: harvest thanksgiving rituals, indigenous games and cultural presentations.More ▾
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Kasanggayahan Festival
📍 Sorsogon City, Sorsogon
Oct
🗓️ Most of October, around Sorsogon's founding anniversary
Sorsogon's provincial festival of prosperity, known for the Pantomina sa Tinampo street dance ('dance of the doves'), plus a parade of resources and a regional festival of festivals.More ▾
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La Union Surfing Break
📍 San Juan, La Union
Oct–Nov
🗓️ Late October to early November
Running since about 2006: surfing competitions at San Juan's breaks, plus surf clinics, beach events, music nights and side events in Bacnotan.More ▾
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Lanzones Festival
📍 Mambajao, Camiguin
Oct
🗓️ Third or fourth week of October
Camiguin's week-long thanksgiving for the lanzones harvest, centered in Mambajao, with street dancing in lanzones-themed costumes, a fruit fair and contests.More ▾
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MassKara Festival
📍 Bacolod City, Negros Occidental
Oct
🗓️ October 1–18 in 2026, highlight weekend mid-October (moved earlier from late Oct)
Bacolod's 'City of Smiles' festival: dancers in smiling, beaded masks and glittering costumes compete in street and arena dance contests, plus the night-time Electric MassKara.More ▾
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Regatta de Zamboanga
📍 Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur
Oct
🗓️ Early October, during the Hermosa Festival (Oct 5 in 2025)
Race of hundreds of colorful vinta sailboats off R.T. Lim Boulevard, one of the highlights of the Hermosa Festival.More ▾
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Sambuokan Festival
📍 Mati City, Davao Oriental
Oct
🗓️ Late October, around Mati's October 29 founding anniversary
Mati City's anniversary festival celebrating unity ("sambuokan"), with street dancing and cultural events. The 2025 edition was cancelled after twin earthquakes.More ▾
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Adivay Festival
📍 La Trinidad, Benguet
Nov
🗓️ November, around Benguet's founding anniversary on Nov 23
Benguet's provincial festival ('adivay' is Ibaloi for coming together): grand parade from the Capitol, agri-trade fair, and Ibaloi and Kankanaey rituals and dances.More ▾
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Belenismo sa Tarlac
📍 Tarlac City and towns, Tarlac
Nov–Dec
🗓️ Early November through the Christmas season
Province-wide nativity-scene (belen) competition. Large belens built from mostly recycled materials go up at churches, plazas and town halls across Tarlac.More ▾
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Gaginaway Festival
📍 Malita, Davao Occidental
Nov
🗓️ November, timed to the full moon
Malita's festival of unity among the Tagakaulo, Blaan and Manobo peoples and the Muslim community, held under November's full moon with agong music and cultural shows.More ▾
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Higantes Festival
📍 Angono, Rizal
Nov
🗓️ November 23 (feast of St. Clement), with events the days before
Angono's papier-mâché giants parade through town, followed by a fluvial procession on Laguna de Bay for San Clemente, with paddle-carrying devotees in bakya.More ▾
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Kabkaban Festival
📍 Carcar City, Cebu
Nov
🗓️ Late November, around the feast of St. Catherine (Nov 25)
Carcar's fiesta festival for St. Catherine of Alexandria, with ritual street dances; Carcar's contingent is a repeat champion of the provincial festival competition.More ▾
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Kalimudan Festival
📍 Isulan, Sultan Kudarat
Nov
🗓️ Week leading to November 22, the province's founding anniversary
Sultan Kudarat's provincial gathering ("kalimudan" in Maguindanaon) of its peoples: street dancing, drum and bell contests, an agri fair and the Miss Sultan Kudarat pageant.More ▾
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MunaTo Festival
📍 Alabel, Sarangani
Nov
🗓️ Late November, up to the province's November 28 anniversary
Sarangani's cultural festival for its indigenous "first peoples" (Blaan munato), celebrating the province's founding anniversary with cultural shows and exhibits.More ▾
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Pawikan Festival
📍 Morong, Bataan
Nov–Dec
🗓️ Late November or early December
Sea-turtle conservation festival at the Pawikan Conservation Center: hatchling releases on the beach, street dance and sand sculpture contests, and a trade fair.More ▾
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Perangat Festival
📍 Oroquieta City, Misamis Occidental
Nov
🗓️ November, for the province's founding anniversary
Provincial thanksgiving festival featuring Subanen traditions and beliefs; "perangat" is Subanen for progress. Includes a street dancing contest among contingents.More ▾
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Pintaflores Festival
📍 San Carlos City, Negros Occidental
Nov
🗓️ Early November, street dance showdown on November 5
San Carlos City's fiesta festival, with dancers painted in floral designs and costumes combining the 'pintados' body-art tradition with flowers.More ▾
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Binaybayon Festival
📍 Baybay City, Leyte
Dec
🗓️ Late December, week-long; December 27 is a local holiday
Baybay City's thanksgiving festival since 2007, with street dances drawing on the curacha and the stages of planting and harvest, celebrating its coastal and farm bounty.More ▾
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Binirayan Festival
📍 San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
Dec
🗓️ December (2022 edition ran December 1–21)
Antique's provincial festival recalling the legendary landing of the Bornean datus, with a balangay fluvial parade to Malandog in Hamtic, a settlement reenactment and Malay-Ati tribal dance competition.More ▾
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Christmas Symbols Festival
📍 Tangub City, Misamis Occidental
Dec–Jan
🗓️ December 1 to early January
Tangub's month-long display of giant lighted Christmas symbols and replicas of world landmarks put up by agencies and barangays, running since 1992.More ▾
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Giant Lantern Festival (Ligligan Parul)
📍 City of San Fernando, Pampanga
Dec–Jan
🗓️ Competition in mid-December; lantern exhibitions until about Jan 1
Barangays compete with roughly 20-foot parol lanterns whose thousands of bulbs flash in patterns timed to music. San Fernando calls itself the Christmas Capital of the Philippines.More ▾
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Puto Festival
📍 Calasiao, Pangasinan
Dec
🗓️ About a week in early-to-mid December
Calasiao's festival for its famous puto (steamed rice cake), with a thanksgiving Mass, puto stalls and street events, timed for the holiday rush of buyers.More ▾
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Sambat Mascara y Regatta
📍 Loay, Bohol
Dec
🗓️ First Saturday of December
Loay's festival for St. Francis Xavier, with masked street dancing, boat races and a fluvial parade on the Loboc River mouth, plus an agro-industrial fair.More ▾
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Shariff Kabunsuan Festival
📍 Cotabato City, Maguindanao del Norte
Dec
🗓️ Mid-December, about a week (Dec 15–19 in recent years)
Commemorates the arrival of Islam in mainland Mindanao with Shariff Kabunsuan; the highlight is a fluvial parade of guinakit boats re-enacting his landing, plus Qur'an reading and heritage booths.More ▾
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Sinadya sa Halaran
📍 Roxas City, Capiz
Dec
🗓️ First week of December, up to the Immaculate Conception feast (Dec 8)
Roxas City's 'joy of sharing' festival for the Immaculate Conception, combining a fluvial procession and religious rites with street dancing, a bazaar and seafood food fair.More ▾
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Tultugan Festival
📍 Maasin, Iloilo
Dec
🗓️ Late December, around December 26
Maasin's bamboo festival celebrating the town's bamboo heritage, with performers in bamboo costumes and bamboo-instrument music; its dance troupe also competes in January's Kasadyahan.More ▾
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