80 festivals in 12 cities, soonest first.
80 food festivals with a guide across 12 cities in Spain, in date order from today. Each opens the festival page with dates, what to eat and what to book around it. How these cities compare with the rest: the city food festival index.
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Saborea Sin Prisa Granada is the autumn tapas route where around 30 Granada bars pair an exclusive tapa with a mini Alhambra Reserva 1925, ending in a judged final at the brewery.
TipScan the QR code on the plate to see if you have won an instant prize, and visiting three bars enters you in the grand draw for a year of free beer.
This edition has been cancelled by the organiser
Tapapies is the Lavapies tapas route run by the district's merchants, 15 editions since 2011; 2026 was called off and 2027 is planned in a new format.
TipIn 2025 (16 to 26 October) a tapa with a beer cost 3.50 euros at more than 100 bars; check the merchants' association for the new 2027 format before planning a trip.
Salouween Street dresses Passeig Jaume I for Halloween with food trucks, local restaurant stands, shows and children's workshops; more than 75,000 people came over three days in 2025.
TipIt is a family-scale street party as much as a food event, so expect crowds on the promenade; the food stands run alongside the shows all weekend.
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Huesos de santo, white marzipan tubes filled with egg-yolk sweet, fill Madrid's pastry shops around All Saints on 1 November, sold beside buñuelos de viento.
TipAntigua Pasteleria del Pozo fills its huesos with sweet potato, egg yolk or chocolate, and La Mallorquina sells buñuelos de viento in boxes of 12 or 24.
All Saints on 1 November is the city's autumn eating day. Roast chestnut stalls go up across Barcelona and households eat panellets, marzipan balls rolled in pine nuts or almonds, with sweet potato.
TipBuy panellets by weight from a pastisseria in the last week of October; pine nut and almond are the two classic kinds.
TaPalma turns Palma bars and restaurants into a five-day tapas route each November, with the city's tapas competition staged at the Palau de Congressos in the days before it opens.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Eixample's Christmas market, about a hundred stalls ringing the square in front of the Passio facade since 1962. One of its four sectors is food: honey, cheese, cured meats, crepes and churros.
TipIt runs at the same time as the Fira de Santa Llucia and is the one of the two with a food sector, plus a sweet stall for children.
The Festa del Calamar, Salou's squid festival since the 1970s, sends local boats out for a week-long fishing contest from the Club Nàutic, then serves squid to the town on the breakwater.
TipThe popular tasting on the Espigó del Moll cost a symbolic €2 in 2025, the 50th edition; restaurants run squid menus in the Jornades del Calamar alongside.
Menjars del Nostre Poble closes Benidorm's food year with four days devoted to its most traditional, deep-rooted cooking; the second edition runs from 26 to 29 November 2026.
TipIt is the newest of the six Benidorm Gastronómico events, added in 2025 and run by the town hall with the ABRECA hospitality association.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Seville Christmas: lights, the Belen at the Town Hall, Plaza de San Francisco, markets, a Nativity Scene Fair by the Cathedral. 2025 lights: 27 Nov to 6 Jan.
TipIn 2025 the lights burned 18:30 to midnight, until 01:00 on 24 and 31 December and 5 January. Entry to the lights is free.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Madrid's Christmas market fills Plaza Mayor with about 100 red stalls of nativity figures and novelties; the 2025 edition ran 27 November to 31 December.
TipIn 2025 the market opened 10:00 to 21:00 Sunday to Thursday and until 22:00 on Fridays, Saturdays and holiday eves; the 2026 dates are not yet announced.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Barcelona's oldest Christmas fair, held in front of the cathedral since 1786. Around 215 stalls sell nativity figures, moss, tio logs and greenery, with music stalls selling simbombes.
TipThe four sectors here are pessebres, greenery, crafts and music, not food: buy neules and torro at the Sagrada Familia fair or a Gothic Quarter pastisseria.
Salón Vinos Naturales Madrid is the natural wine fair run by the growers' association PVN: open tasting of more than 400 wines, with the producers pouring, at the Museo del Ferrocarril.
TipTickets are €12 for Sunday, €6 for Monday or €15 for both days, and include a personalised PVN glass. The fair runs 10:00 to 18:00 both days.
Navidad y Belenes in Granada lights up Plaza Bib-Rambla and Calle Reyes Catolicos in December with belenes, food stalls and pasteleria specials of piononos.
TipCasa Ysla launches a special Christmas pionono with rum syrup; convent sweets open the turn for ordering.
Fem el Vermut a Salou is the town's pre-Christmas vermouth route: for about two weeks in December, bars and restaurants pour regional vermouth with a festive tapa from noon to 15:00.
TipThe route runs at lunchtime only, 12:00 to 15:00; around twenty to twenty-five places usually take part, so it is easy to string three or four together.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
A Christmas and Kings fair dating to 1877, filling the side walkways of Gran Via between Muntaner and Rocafort with 243 stalls of toys, crafts and gifts, plus sweet stands and a churro stall.
TipThe fair runs to 6 January, so it is the last Christmas market standing; go for chocolate and xurros made on site.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Feria de Santo Tomas on 21 December fills El Arenal and Plaza Nueva with farm stalls, cheese, honey and sweets, and talo with chorizo and a glass of txakoli.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Sagardo Berriaren Eguna opens the txotx season in Astigarraga: on 14 January 2026 the guest planted an apple tree at Erribera Kulturgunea and tasted the new cider at Petritegi.
TipFree to attend; in 2026 it ran from 11:30 to 17:00, organised by Sagardoaren Lurraldea. The 2027 date had not been announced when we checked.
Sant Antoni runs on 16 and 17 January across Mallorca, with bonfires in the streets, demons in the parade and sobrassada and botifarró roasted over the flames.
Sant Sebastià is Palma's own patron festival, and on the night of 19 January the squares fill with bonfires, concerts and grills loaded with sobrassada and botifarró sausage.
The Tamborrada fills San Sebastian Day, 20 January, from the raising of the city flag in the Plaza de la Constitucion at midnight to its lowering at the next, with drummers in Napoleonic uniform and cooks with barrels.
TipThe children's tamborrada parades at 12:00; the day ends when the mayor lowers the flag at midnight in the Plaza de la Constitucion.
Madrid Fusion Alimentos de Espana is Spain's chef congress at IFEMA Madrid, with its 25th anniversary edition on 1 to 3 February 2027 across two pavilions.
TipPrices for 2027 are not yet published; the January 2026 congress charged €250 for three days or €100 for one day. Tickets are sold through madridfusion.net.
Carnival week opens with Dijous Gras, the city's eating day, and closes on Ash Wednesday. Between them come the Arribo of King Carnestoltes, neighbourhood rues and the orange-throwing Taronjada.
TipDijous Gras is the one to plan around: bakeries sell coca de llardons, a flat cake of pork crackling and pine nuts, eaten with moscatell or cava.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
TapaFest runs alongside the Benidorm Fest song contest each February: in 2026, 20 bars and restaurants sold tapas at €3.50, and voters entered a draw for final tickets.
TipThe fourth edition ran from 6 to 15 February 2026; it moves with the Benidorm Fest dates, which are announced each winter.
San Cecilio in Granada honours the city's patron on 1 February, or the first Sunday of the month, with a pilgrimage to Sacromonte Abbey and free broad beans and salted bread.
TipFree flat bread (salaillas) and broad beans with ham are handed out at the abbey from 12:00.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Ruta del Cocido Madrileno 2026 ran from 15 February to 31 March across 46 restaurants, each serving its own cocido; no 2027 dates are out yet.
TipPrices in 2026 ran from €14.50 to €75 per person; most tabernas serve cocido only on set days, so book ahead.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Benidorm's spoon-dish weeks open the year's food calendar: 16 restaurants served a set menu of starter, traditional stew, drink and dessert for €25 in the 2026 edition.
TipThe 2026 edition ran from 27 February to 8 March; the 2027 dates are not yet announced, so check the town hall's Benidorm Gastronómico page from January.
Gracia's sweet festival on 3 March. Colles on horses, carriages and lorries parade down Gran de Gracia and Torrent de l'Olla throwing tonnes of boiled sweets, then ride out to the Collserola hermitage.
TipBring a bag or an upturned umbrella. The morning cercavila runs 9am to 1.30pm; la Bordeta repeats it the following Sunday.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Las Fallas in Valencia (UNESCO World Heritage) runs March 15-19 with 400-plus fallas sculptures across the city, bunyols stalls and street-paella culture.
TipMascletas at 14:00 daily in Plaza del Ayuntamiento. Cremà on March 19 burns every sculpture.
Holy Week in Granada brings the torrijas tradition to every pasteleria, the cinnamon-honey Andalusian Easter bread soaked in milk and wine.
TipPasteleria Lopez Mezquita pioneers a vino-soaked variant; Casa Ysla makes the milk-and-cinnamon classic.
Semana Santa is Seville's Holy Week, from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, with processions and Lenten foods such as torrijas and spinach with chickpeas.
TipLook for torrijas and pestinos, spinach with chickpeas and cod pavias; Confiteria La Campana and Confiteria Rufino both list torrijas.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Southern Europe's largest craft beer gathering, three days over 7,000 square metres at Fira Montjuic. Hundreds of taps from Catalan and international brewers, gastronomic stands, talks and DJ sets.
TipA one day online ticket is six euros and includes the glass; bring the same glass back if you come on more than one day.
The Feria de Abril fills the Real in Los Remedios for six days with more than 1,000 casetas, manzanilla and a fried fish supper on the night the lights go on.
TipMany casetas are private and need an invitation; public ones, such as the tourist board's caseta on Calle Pascual Marquez, are open to visitors.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Jornadas del Atún honour Benidorm's almadraba past with bluefin tuna dishes, tapas and menus in 15 restaurants, opened in 2026 by the ronqueo of a 280-kilo fish.
TipIn 2026 prices ran from €3 for the cheapest tuna tapa to €52 for the fullest menu; the next edition's dates are still to be announced.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Montilla-Moriles regulating council takes over the Avenida del Alcázar for four days each spring, ten bodegas pouring fino through to Pedro Ximénez with free entry to the ground.
TipEntry to the ground is free; you buy a glass and tokens once inside rather than a ticket up front.
Salou's rice days, "Per a gustos, els arrossos", put rice at the centre of set menus in 22 restaurants in 2026, the seventh edition, priced from €8.50 tastings to €50 menus.
TipSeveral menus need a minimum of two people and a booking; the organisers publish each restaurant's menu, phone and hours on the AEHT page before it starts.
Salon Gourmets is a trade-only gourmet food and drink fair at IFEMA Madrid with about 2,000 exhibitors; the 40th edition runs 26 to 29 April 2027.
TipEntry is for food and drink professionals aged 18 or over, with identification; visitor hours are 10:00 to 19:00 Monday to Wednesday and 10:00 to 17:00 on Thursday.
Neighbourhood associations raise flower-covered crosses in Córdoba's squares and set up temporary bars beside them, serving local tapas and wine for five days around the turn of May.
TipThe bars beside the crosses are run by residents' associations, so prices stay well below taberna level.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Dia de la Cruz in Granada celebrates the May Crosses around May 3 with around 100 flower crosses across the city, each backed by a parish bar pouring tapas.
TipMay 2 to 3, 2026; the Plaza del Carmen flamenco stage is the central programmed event.
Córdoba opens more than fifty private courtyards to the street for a fortnight every May, a UNESCO-listed festival with neighbourhood bars pouring Montilla-Moriles beside the geraniums.
TipSan Basilio wins most of the prizes, so book a table in the barrio weeks before you travel.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Fiestas de San Isidro, Madrid's patron saint festival around May 15, fills the Pradera de San Isidro with the romeria, chotis, lemonade and rosquillas tontas y listas, plus free concerts at Plaza Mayor and Las Vistillas.
TipFree entry. The Pradera programme ran 8 to 17 May in 2026; esMadrid expects the fiestas around 7 to 16 May 2027, with the official programme published in early May.
A medicinal herb fair held every 11 May on Carrer de l'Hospital in the Raval, where it has stood since 1817. About fifty stalls sell honey and its derivatives, jams, candied fruit, herbs and flowers.
TipOne day only, 9am to 9pm. Smaller Sant Ponc fairs run the same day at Placa de Sarria and two days earlier in el Farro.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Festival Internacional Gastronómico turns Málaga into a food capital each May, gathering flavours from more than fifteen countries at the Málaga Forum.
Córdoba's feria fills thirty hectares of El Arenal beside the Guadalquivir with casetas, and unlike Seville almost every one of them admits the public freely.
TipThe lighting ceremony opens the ground on the Friday night before the first full day of the feria.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Bizkaia's pintxo championship, held in bars across the province from late May to mid-June with finals in Bilbao; 2026 champion El Globo goes to Madrid Fusion.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Tast a la Rambla on Plaça de Catalunya runs over four late-May days: 36 Barcelona restaurants and pastry shops serve six-euro tasting plates with a token system.
TipBuy tokens at the entry booth (one euro per token); show-cookings and chef workshops run alongside the tasting stalls.
Sabor Salou turns Passeig Jaume I into a three-day street food market each May, with 56 stands in 2026 serving tapas, rice dishes, seafood, burgers, sweets, wines and local beers.
TipThe 2026 edition opened with a 20-metre hazelnut and ratafia tiramisu sold at €1 a portion, with the takings going to local charities.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Feria del Corpus in Granada runs May 30 to June 6, 2026 with the citys main fair, casetas plating Granadina tapas and the Tarasca parade on June 3.
TipThe Tarasca parade is June 3; bullfights run June 3 to 7 with food stalls active across the recinto until 03:00.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Festival Internacional de Musica y Danza in Granada runs June 11 to July 12, 2026 with more than a hundred shows at the Alhambra and Generalife.
TipPre-concert dinners at Carmen Mirador de Aixa or El Trillo are the standard; the Generalife runs flamenco evenings.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Dia Mundial de la Tapa en Lavapies is a croqueta route: its sixth edition, 16 to 21 June 2026, had over twenty bars each serve their own croqueta at €1.50.
TipEach bar served its own croqueta at €1.50, including seven vegetarian and vegan options in 2026. EnLavapies organises it; 2027 dates are not yet announced.
Benidorm's tapas and pinchos contest, the seed of its food-week calendar, had 19 bars selling competition tapas at €3.50 in 2026, judged by a jury and a public vote.
TipIn 2026 La Fava won the jury prize and Taberna Andaluza the public vote; keep receipts, because votes are registered against a purchase ticket.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
On the Noche de San Juan every June, Málaga's beaches fill with bonfires and chiringuito grills, sardine espetos and sea-swum midnight crowds.
Midsummer eve on 23 June. The Canigo Flame reaches Placa de Sant Jaume in the afternoon and is carried out to light bonfires in every barri, where the revetlles run on coca and cava till dawn.
TipBuy the coca de Sant Joan during the day. It comes with candied fruit, marzipan, cream or pork crackling, and is drunk with sweet wine or cava.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Feria de Julio is Valencia's month-long July festival, 1 to 26 July 2026, with free concerts, jazz, fireworks and the Batalla de Flores finale on Paseo de la Alameda.
TipThe Batalla de Flores closes the feria on 26 July at 20:00 on Paseo de la Alameda; fireworks run on Saturday nights.
Bilbao BBK Live is a three-day music festival on Mount Kobetamendi; the organiser promises a wide food offer with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options.
TipFood not sold on site may be brought in only with a doctor's note; the organiser's FAQ says gluten-free and vegan options are part of the food on offer.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
On 16 July, the fishing quarters of El Palo, Pedregalejo and Huelin carry the Virgen del Carmen to the sea by jábega boat, then feast on beach espetos.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The Velá de Santiago y Santa Ana fills Calle Betis in Triana each July with booths serving fried fish, grilled sardines and green hazelnuts, with free access.
TipEntry to the booths on Calle Betis is free; watch the cucaña, the greased pole over the river, which is one of the Velá's best-known activities.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
La Paloma closes Madrid's August verbenas in La Latina; in 2026 it ran 13 to 16 August with chotis, a chocolatada castiza and a vermut castizo.
TipThe picture of the Virgin is lowered by the firefighters on 15 August, Plaza de la Paja serves a vermut castizo at noon on the last day, and Cava Baja hosts parchis and draughts championships.
Semana Grande (Aste Nagusia), San Sebastian's festival week, ran from Saturday 8 to Saturday 15 August in 2026, with fireworks over La Concha bay, free concerts in Sagues and food trucks on the Kursaal terraces.
TipThe cannon shot that opens the week is fired at exactly 19:00 on the first Saturday in the Alderdi Eder gardens.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Festa Major de Gracia takes over the streets in Barcelona's Gracia each August: hand-decorated streets compete, every corner becomes an outdoor bar and grill.
TipEvery street has its own decoration theme and bar. The Carrer Verdi and Carrer Joan Blanques are the food anchors.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Feria de Málaga fills the city each August with daytime casetas pouring sweet wine and cartojal, fried fish stalls and nine days of flamenco and horses.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Aste Nagusia, Bilbao's Big Week, runs nine days from the Saturday after 15 August, with concerts, shows and fireworks across the city, including El Arenal.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Nine days of neighbourhood festival across eleven decorated streets in Sants, with castellers, correfocs and a food programme: a sopar de germanor on the street and a vermut mariner at the Mercat de Sants.
TipThe residents' dinner and the market vermouth are the two food dates; the fireworks close the week at Parc de l'Espanya Industrial.
La Tomatina in Bunol 38 km west of Valencia is the world's largest tomato-throwing festival, with 100 metric tons of tomatoes and 20,000 ticketed.
TipTickets mandatory since 2013, sell out months ahead through tomatina.es. Trains from Valencia run on the day.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Montilla, forty-five minutes south of Córdoba, marks the Montilla-Moriles harvest with grape-treading, a named honorary capataz and bodega tastings across the town every September.
TipThis runs in Montilla rather than in Córdoba city, so plan it as a day trip with the train or a car.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Festa des Vermar has marked the Binissalem grape harvest since 1965, half an hour from Palma, running most of September with a grape battle, treading contests, fideus de vermar and the Fira del Vi pouring DO Binissalem wines.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Benidorm's cocktail contest has bars pour two competition drinks each, one with alcohol at €9 and one without at €7, with a public vote; the 2026 edition had eight bars.
TipCamarote Club, La Terrasse and Malaspina were among the 2026 entrants; the 2026 edition ran from 11 to 20 September and next year's dates are not yet set.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Hotel Tapa Tour turned 29 four and five-star Madrid hotels into nine tapas routes; the 11th edition ran 17 to 27 September 2026, with no 2027 dates yet.
TipIn 2026 each of the nine routes could be walked without booking; the guided in-house experiences were booked separately. Watch hoteltapatour.com for 2027.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
World Paella Day on 20 September is Valencia's paella celebration; in 2026 the World Paella Day Cup final at La Marina brings twelve cooks from different countries and €6 portions.
TipMost paella restaurants run special menus. The World Paella Day Cup is the international chef competition.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The sustainable food festival inside La Merce. On the Passeig dels Tillers in Parc de la Ciutadella, 14 neighbourhood restaurants serve 28 dishes of organic seasonal produce, half of them vegetarian.
TipFree and unticketed, with show cooking and tastings from the early evening; dishes are five euros and drinks two fifty.
Beermad is Madrid's craft beer fair; the 2026 edition ran 25 to 27 September on Avenida del Planetario with 50 breweries and over 200 beer styles.
TipEntry was free. In 2026 Friday ran 17:00 to 23:00, Saturday 11:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 11:00 to 19:00.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
La Merce is Barcelona's flagship Patron Saint festival around 24 September: open-air calçotada stands, vermouth stations and the human tower competitions.
TipPick up the programme at any kiosk; major food stalls cluster on Avinguda de la Catedral and Plaça Reial.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Culinary Zinema at the San Sebastian Film Festival is its food section, run with the Basque Culinary Center: five gastronomy films, each paired with a themed dinner from 22 to 25 September.
TipIn 2026 most dinners cost 90 euros and one 16-person table cost 175 euros; tickets went on sale on 28 August, so book as soon as the section is announced.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Feria Sabores de Nuestra Tierra is a gastronomic and agri-food fair at FERMASA in Armilla, on the edge of Granada, with wine tastings, showcooking and workshops on 2 to 4 October 2026.
TipThe fair is in Armilla, outside the city centre, so allow travel time from Granada. Entry is €3, free for children under 10, and it shares the site with the Feria General de Muestras.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
San Sebastian Gastronomika is the city's international chefs' congress at the Kursaal; its 28th edition, 5 to 7 October 2026, marked fifty years of New Basque Cuisine.
TipEntry is by registration on the congress website; the dates of the 2027 edition had not been announced when we checked in October 2026.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Dia de la Comunitat Valenciana on 9 October marks Jaume I's entry into Valencia in 1238, with a civic procession, a mascletà and the Sant Donís mocadorà of marzipan fruit.
TipPublic holiday in Valencia. Restaurants book up for the lunchtime paella; reserve 3 weeks ahead.
Benidorm's rice weeks fill restaurant menus with local rices, dry, creamy and soupy, made with bay fish, mountain meats and huerta pumpkin, ñora and spinach.
TipThe 2025 edition had 24 restaurants with menus from €25 to €60; the 2026 edition runs 16 to 25 October, each menu a starter, a rice, dessert and a drink.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
The municipal markets' own food fair, in its fifteenth edition in 2026. Traders from Barcelona's market halls sell fresh local produce at Les Glories that visitors grill free on site, alongside producers and cooks.
TipBuy from a market stall, then cook it on the free barbecues in the same enclosure. The 2026 guest region is Jeonbuk, South Korea.
Expected dates, not yet confirmed by the organiser
Vadevermut Madrid, the 10th edition, is on 24 and 25 October 2026 at MEEU in Chamartin station: 270+ vermouth brands, tastings, gourmet stalls, live music.
TipSessions are split: Saturday 11:00 to 16:30 and 17:00 to 23:00, Sunday 11:00 to 15:00 and 15:30 to 20:00. Metro Chamartin (lines 1 and 10) is at the door.
Alimentaria is Barcelona's biennial food, drinks and gastronomy trade show at Fira Gran Via, next held 20 to 23 March 2028 after its 50th anniversary edition in 2026.
TipAlimentaria is for food and hospitality trade professionals only: there is no public day, under-18s are not admitted and nothing is sold on the stands.
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