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Events &
Festivals

A curated starting point for events that come back year after year. Choose the kind of experience you want first, then narrow it by month and location.

90recurring events
11event types
12months to explore
Start with the experience

What kind of event are you looking for?

Each type opens the same calendar through a different lens. Related events can appear in a second category without being counted twice.

90events in the research calendar
All event types

Plan the year

The rhythm changes with the seasons.

Poland's recurring calendar has clear clusters: spring long weekends, midsummer culture, high-summer re-enactments, harvest festivals and a busy autumn-to-Advent run.

Jan–Mar

Late winter / early spring

Three Kings (6 Jan); winter light gardens still open into Feb/Mar; World Flower Show touring weekends; Falkon (Feb); Warsaw Beer Festival spring edition.

Late Apr–early May

Majówka / spring

Książ Flower Festival; OFF CAMERA; 1 May + 3 May; Hortulus tulips; some WWII stagings (Wyry, Wilkowice).

May–June

Early summer

MDAG; Krakow Film Festival; Dragon Parade; Wianki; Kazimierz folk; Pyrkon; Wrocław Good Beer; Legnica 1241; Młodzi i Film.

July–mid-August

High summer battles

Grunwald → Malbork → Wolin → Vivat Vasa; St Dominic's Fair; Beskid Culture Week; Nowe Horyzonty; 15 Aug / 1920 commemorations.

Late Aug–September

Harvest / early autumn

Zamość Winogranie; Zielona Góra Winobranie; Kutno roses; LMF Łódź; Gdynia FPFF; Chmielaki; Jagiellonian Fair.

October

Autumn conventions + film

PGA; WFF; Ars Independent; Warsaw Beer Festival autumn edition; start of winter light gardens (mid/late Oct).

Nov–early Jan

Advent to Carnival close

Independence Day 11 Nov; Camerimage; Christmas markets; city light switch-on; Wilanów/botanicals; Three Kings.

A growing collection

Useful enough to plan with. Open enough to keep improving.

Recurring first

We prioritise events that return reliably enough to become durable travel information.

Typical windows first

The annual pattern matters more than a single year's date. Where a durable organiser page exists, the event card links you there to check the current edition.

Curated, not complete

This is a launch collection. More regional events will be added as they are discovered and verified.

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