Festivals in Bavaria

The Bayreuth Bicycle Festival celebrates its premiere on Sunday, March 29, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – one of the formats for everyday cy...

The Bayreuth Christmas Market transforms the market square of the Upper Franconian festival city into an atmospheric Advent world every year...

The Bayreuth City Festival is one of Upper Franconia's largest free city centre festivals. For three days, the historic centre of Bayreuth t...

The Bayreuth Easter Festival is the annual concert series of the International Young Orchestra Academy (IJOA) — a guest in Bayreuth, Selb, a...

The Bayreuth Festival is the world's most famous opera festival, dedicated exclusively to the work of Richard Wagner. Every summer, Wagneria...

The Bayreuth Jazz November is the annual jazz festival of the Jazzforum Bayreuth e.V. in the Upper Franconian festival city of Bayreuth. Eve...

The Bayreuth Lake Stage Festival is the open-air concert series of the Wagner city: every summer for a week, live concerts are held on the s...

The Bayreuth Pentecost Market is a traditional market in the city centre of the Upper Franconian festival city of Bayreuth. Around Pentecost...

Bayreuth Summertime is the multifaceted summer of culture in the Upper Franconian festival city. From June to August, over 100 events transf...

In summer, the "Zur Seebühne" Kulturkiosk in Bayreuth's Wilhelminenaue transforms into an open-air stage. As part of Bayreuth Summertime, th...

The Bayreuth Volksfest is one of the largest folk festivals in Upper Franconia and a summer highlight in the Wagner city. For over ten days...

The Bayreuth Wine Festival transforms the market square in the pedestrian zone of the independent city of Bayreuth in Upper Franconia into a...

In the courtyard of the Old Palace Bayreuth, right in the middle of Maximilianstraße, one of Bavaria's most charming hut villages is created...

Beats & Grapes is Würzburg's 'Wine Festival 2.0': an underground wine festival that transforms the historic vaults of the Staatlicher Hofkel...

Beats & Grapes is an indoor wine festival of a very special kind: Instead of wine pavilions and cover bands, the festival celebrates the Fra...

The BEEM Festival in Westerngrund is a young, volunteer-run Indie, Punk, and Metal open air event held at the barbecue hut in the Huckelheim...

At the intersection of the Sulz and Altmühl rivers, in the medieval old town of Beilngries, alleys and squares transform into an open stage...

»Dirndl fits. Maß is ready. Let's go!« – At the beginning of September, the Beilngrieser Volksfest transforms the festival grounds in the Al...