NH Festivals

Uniquely New Hampshire Annual Events.

New Hampshirites celebrate their passions at the broadest array of festivals imaginable, from June's annual Laconia Motorcycle Week to October's Warner Fall Foliage Festival. Both have been New Hampshire traditions for more decades than you've probably been alive.

Visitors' favorite festivals focus on all that makes New Hampshire one of a kind: moose, maple sugaring, seafood, craft brews, ATVing, pumpkin chucking, craftsmanship, lupines. And we've been home for over 40 years to the New Hampshire Highland Games, one of the largest Scottish festivals in the nation.

Check our Event Calendar to see all that's happening today or any day, and join us for one of these New Hampshire festivals and events in 2021.

Annual New Hampshire Festivals

Fall

Exeter UFO Festival, Exeter, September – Event Cancelled for 2021
Hampton Beach Seafood Festival, Hampton, September 10 - 12, 2021
NH Highland Games & Festival, Lincoln, September 17 - 19, 2021
Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, Portsmouth, September – Event Cancelled for 2021
Winchester Pickle Festival, Winchester, September 25, 2021
Annual Apple Harvest Day, Dover, October 2, 2021
Warner Fall Foliage Festival, Warner, October – Event Cancelled for 2021

Milford Pumpkin Festival, Milford, October 8 - 10, 2021
Attitash Oktoberfest, Bartlett, October 8 - 9, 2021
White Mountain Oktoberfest, Lincoln, October 9 - 10, 2021
Fall Foliage Festival, Waterville Valley, October 9 - 11, 2021
NH Film Festival, Portsmouth, October - Event Cancelled for 2021

NH Brewfest, Portsmouth, October 9, 2021

RiverFire Festival, Berlin, October 16, 2021
NH Pumpkin Festival, Laconia, October – Event Cancelled for 2021
Keene Pumpkin Festival, Keene, October – Event Cancelled for 2021
Littleton Gathering of the Jack o' Lanterns, Littleton, October – 2021 Dates TBA

Winter

Gift of Lights, Loudon, November 25, 2021 - January 2, 2022
Candlelight Stroll, Portsmouth, December 4, 11, 18, 2021, 5-9PM / December 5, 12, 19, 2021 4-8PM

Winterfest, Concord, January 28-29, 2022 Dates TBA
Keene Ice & Snow Festival, Keene, February 5, 2022
Dartmouth Winter Carnival, Hanover, February 5-21, 2022 - Dartmouth Students Only
World Champion Sled Dog Derby, Laconia, February - 2022 Dates TBA
Remick Ice Harvest & Winter Carnival, Tamworth, February - 2022 Dates TBA

Spring

Go North Snofest, Stewartstown, March 4-5, 2022
Wildquack Duck Race & Music Festival, Jackson, May 29, 2022
NH Bacon & Beer Festival, Merrimack, May 22, 2021
Chowderfest and Brews, Waterville Valley, May – 2022 Dates TBA
Memorial Day Weekend Craft Festival, Meredith, May 29 - 31, 2021
Celebration of Lupines, Sugar Hill, June – Event Cancelled for 2021
NH Poutine Fest, Merrimack, June – 2022 Dates TBA
Market Square Day, Portsmouth, June 12, 2021
Laconia Motorcycle Week, Laconia, June 11 - 19, 2022

Summer

Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Event, Hampton Beach, June 17 - 19, 2021
Mount Washington Road Race, Gorham, June 19, 2021
New England Brewfest, Lincoln, June – Event Cancelled for 2021
Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth, July 9 - August 15, 2021
New Hampshire Music Festival, Plymouth, July 8 - July 31, 2021
Hillsborough Summer Festival, Hillsborough, July 8 - 11, 2021
NH Brewers Festival, Concord, July 11, 2021
Jericho ATV Festival, Berlin, July 30 - 31, 2021
Suncook Valley Hot Air Balloon Rally, Pittsfield, August 6 - 8, 2021
Annual League of NH Craftsmen's Fair, Newbury, August 7 - 15, 2021
Hampton Beach Children's Festival, Hampton Beach, August 16 - 20, 2021
North Country Moose Festival, Pittsburg, Colebrook, West Stewartstown, August 27 - 28, 2021