Plan your trip · Barcelona
What's on in Barcelona
Upcoming festivals, fairs and events in Barcelona — plan your visit around them, then check the best time to visit.
Nothing dated is confirmed for Barcelona right now, so here is the year instead — the fixtures that come round annually, and what each one means for a visit.
The year in Barcelona
Barcelona's calendar leans on the warm months, when the outdoor events and the seafront are at their busiest — and the off-season is genuinely quiet rather than merely cheaper. Broadly, Jun – Aug and Mar – May is when visiting is most comfortable here, and that is when the calendar is busiest — which also means accommodation is most expensive and books furthest ahead.
Most of these follow lunar calendars and move by weeks from year to year, so treat the windows below as the season rather than the date, and confirm the year’s dates before you book around one.
Nationwide
Semana Santa
🗓️ March–April (Holy Week; moves with Easter)Nightly processions of hooded brotherhoods carrying immense floats, through the small hours. In Andalucía it is the defining week of the year rather than a church event people attend.
Reyes Magos (Three Kings)
🗓️ 5–6 JanuaryThe night children get their presents, marked by a cavalcade throwing sweets to the crowd. Bigger than Christmas Day in most of Spain.
Corpus Christi
🗓️ May–JuneA religious procession through streets strewn with rosemary and decorated with awnings and altars.