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 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

Spring

Go North Snofest, Stewartstown, March – Event Cancelled for 2021
Wildquack Duck Race & Music Festival, Jackson, May 30, 2021
NH Bacon & Beer Festival, May 22, 2021
Chowderfest and Brews, Waterville Valley, May – 2021 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 – 2021 Dates TBA
Market Square Day, Portsmouth, June 12, 2021
Laconia Motorcycle Week, Laconia, June 12-20, 2021

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/August – 2021 Dates TBA
Hillsborough Summer Festival, Hillsborough, July – 2021 Dates TBA
NH Brewers Festival, Concord, July – 2021 Dates TBA
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 – 2021 Dates TBA
North Country Moose Festival, Pittsburg, Colebrook, West Stewartstown, August 27-28, 2021

Fall

Hampton Beach Seafood Festival, Hampton, September 10-12, 2021
NH Highland Games & Festival, Lincoln, September 17-19, 2021
Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, Portsmouth, September – 2021 Dates TBA
Winchester Pickle Festival, Winchester, September 25, 2021
Annual Apple Harvest Day, October – 2021 Dates TBA
Warner Fall Foliage Festival, October 8-10, 2021
Milford Pumpkin Festival, October – 2021 Dates TBA
Attitash Oktoberfest, Bartlett, October – 2021 Dates TBA
White Mountain Oktoberfest, Lincoln, October – 2021 Dates TBA
Fall Foliage Festival, Waterville Valley, October – 2021 Dates TBA
NH Film Festival, Portsmouth, October 14-17, 2021
NH Brewfest, Portsmouth, October 9, 2021
RiverFire Festival, Berlin, October 16, 2021
NH Pumpkin Festival, Laconia, October 15-16, 2021
Keene Pumpkin Festival, Keene, October – 2021 Dates TBA
Littleton Gathering of the Jack o' Lanterns, Littleton, October – 2021 Dates TBA

Winter

Gift of Lights, Loudon, November/January - 2021 Dates TBA
Candlelight Stroll, Portsmouth, December 11-13 & 18-20, 2021

Winterfest, Concord, January 29-30, 2021
Keene Ice & Snow Festival, Keene, February 6, 2021
Dartmouth Winter Carnival, Hanover, February 5-21 - Virtual Events. Students only for 2021
World Champion Sled Dog Derby, Laconia, Event Cancelled for 2021
Remick Ice Harvest & Winter Carnival, Tamworth, February 20, 2021