Festivals in North Rhine-Westphalia

District festival with 47 years of tradition: From September 11th to 13th, 2026 — the second full September weekend — Porta Westfalica celeb...

From April 24 to 26, 2026, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock will celebrate an extraordinary town festival: 500 Years of Stukenbrock. The occasion is...

From June 18 to 21, 2026, Selm will celebrate its four-day city festival on the Selm Campus. It opens with the Volksbank City Run on Thursda...

Stadtfest Unna is one of the most prominent urban festivals in the Unna district and the eastern Ruhr area. From September 4th to 6th, 2026,...

From August 21 to 23, 2026, the Stadtfestival Versmold in the Tecklenburger Land region will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Three days of o...

From September 4th to 20th, 2026, the Bottrop Cultural Office will transform the Kulturhof at the August Everding Cultural Centre into an op...

On the third Advent weekend, the area around St. Otger Church in Münsterland's Stadtlohn transforms into an atmospheric Christmas market: ar...

When polonaises, festive parades, and march music fill the city center of Emsdetten on the second Sunday in July, it's time for the Stadtsch...

On September 5th and 6th, 2026, Mönchengladbach will celebrate the Stadtschützenfest with 2,500 marksmen and around 30,000 visitors. Saturda...

The Stadtschützenfest Olpe is one of the largest and most traditional Schützenfeste in Südwestfalen. From July 17 to 20, 2026 — always aroun...

On September 6, 2026, the Bochum Bermuda3Eck will transform into the start and finish area of the Stadtwerke Half Marathon. Half Marathon an...

The Stadtwerke Open-Air-Kino Witten is one of the most beautiful summer cinemas in the southern Ruhr area. In the Witten-Annen outdoor pool...

On Friday, May 15, 2026, 8 PM, the Bayer stARTfestival will host a top-class classical concert in the Basilica Knechtsteden near Dormagen. T...

From April 17 to June 18, 2026, Bayer Kultur invites you to the stARTfestival — Leverkusen's major spring cultural event. For over two month...

From April 17 to June 18, 2026, Bayer Kultur invites you to the stARTfestival, a two-month cultural spring featuring around 30 concerts at 6...

The Landesgartenschau Neuss 2026 transforms the 38-hectare area of the former racecourse into an expansive park with gardens, stages, a Glob...

The Static Roots Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2026 on July 10th and 11th at Zentrum Altenberg in Oberhausen — a former indust...

On June 21, 2026, the LWL-Open Air Museum Hagen at Mäckingerbach will transform into a retrofuturistic Steampunk stage. From 11 AM to 5 PM,...