August 13 - 15, 2023 Japan Details Buddhists celebrate Obon every year as a time to remember their ancestors. Every year, during obon, it is thought that the ghosts of the ancestors visit their loved ones in this world. In accordance with custom, food sacrifices are made at...
August 20 - 21, 2022 Tokyo & Osaka, Japan Details The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two-day rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Tokyo the following day and vice...
August 28 - September 5, 2022 Black Rock City, NV, USA Details Burning Man isn’t your usual festival. It’s a city wherein almost everything that happens is created entirely by its citizens, who are active participants in the experience. The Playa (the desert stage location where the Man, the...
August 26 - 28, 2022 Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands Details The Netherlands is a huge player in the world of electronic music, with a proliferation of Dutch DJs striking global fame and fortune. It doesn’t come as a huge surprise then that one of the oldest dance music festivals originated...
August 10 - 15, 2022 Budapest, Hungary Details Sziget’s winning festival recipe comes not only from its prime location on the island of Óbudai-sziget in the Danube in the heart of Budapest, but also from its 24-hour non-stop mix of music, art, food, performance and regional culture. It...
August 31st, 2022 Buñol, Spain Details La Tomatina Festival is regarded as “the world’s biggest food fight.” The festival takes place on the last Wednesday of every August in the eastern town of Bunol, which is near Valencia in eastern Spain. It is also the messiest date on...
August 5 - 29, 2022 Edinburgh, Scotland Details The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the single biggest celebration of arts and culture on the planet. For three weeks in August the Edinburgh Festival Fringe opens the doors, streets and alleyways of an entire city to an explosion of creative...
September 1-5, 2022 Tisno, Croatia Details At Dimensions Festival it’s a bit like revisiting the play forts and dens you made as a kid, but instead of cushions and parts of your couch, it’s an actual abandoned fort. The Garden Resort, Tisno, Croatia Heading down the Croatian coast, Dimensions Festival...
July 7 , 2022 Nationwide, Japan Details Tanabata, commonly referred to as the "star festival," occurs on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. According to the traditionally established lunar calendar, the seventh month of the year roughly corresponds to August rather than July, hence in certain...
July 29 - 31, 2022 Niigata, Japan Details The Fuji Rock Festival is one of those magical events. Set amidst a pristine mountain forest in one of Japan’s biggest ski resorts, rock out to the sounds of headline international bands and the best of the Japanese music scene. The annual...
