NH Festivals

Uniquely NH 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 2022.

Annual New Hampshire Festivals

Fall

Exeter UFO Festival, Exeter, September 3 - 4, 2022
Hampton Beach Seafood Festival, Hampton, September 9 - 11, 2022
NH Highland Games & Festival, Lincoln, September 16 - 18, 2022
Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, Portsmouth, September 24 - 25, 2022
Winchester Pickle Festival, Winchester, September 24, 2022
Annual Apple Harvest Day, Dover, October 1, 2022
Warner Fall Foliage Festival, Warner, October 8 - 9, 2022

Milford Pumpkin Festival, Milford, October 7 - 9, 2022
Attitash Oktoberfest, Bartlett, - TBD
White Mountain Oktoberfest, Lincoln, October 8 - 9, 2022
Fall Foliage Festival, Waterville Valley, October 8, 2022
NH Film Festival, Portsmouth, October 13 - 16, 2022

NH Poutine Fest, Merrimack, October 15, 2022

NH Brewfest, Portsmouth, October 8, 2022

RiverFire Festival, Berlin, October 15, 2022
NH Pumpkin Festival, Laconia, October 1 - 31, 2022
Keene Pumpkin Festival, Keene, October 1 - 31, 2022
Littleton Gathering of the Jack o' Lanterns, Littleton, October – 2022 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, June 4, 2022
Chowderfest and Brews, Waterville Valley, May 29, 2022
Memorial Day Weekend Craft Festival, Meredith, May 28 - 30, 2022
Celebration of Lupines, Sugar Hill, June – Event Cancelled for 2022

Market Square Day, Portsmouth, June 11, 2022
Laconia Motorcycle Week, Laconia, June 11 - 19, 2022

Summer

Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Event, Hampton Beach, June 16 - 18, 2022
Mount Washington Road Race, Gorham, June 18, 2022
New England Brewfest, Lincoln, June – Event Cancelled for 2022
Prescott Park Arts Festival, Portsmouth, June 4 - August 29, 2022
New Hampshire Music Festival, Plymouth, July, 2022
Hillsborough Summer Festival, Hillsborough, July 7 - 10, 2022
Jericho ATV Festival, Berlin, August 5 - 6, 2022
Suncook Valley Hot Air Balloon Rally, Pittsfield, August 5 - 7, 2022
Annual League of NH Craftsmen's Fair, Newbury, August 6- 14, 2022
Hampton Beach Children's Festival, Hampton Beach, August 15 - 19, 2022
North Country Moose Festival, Colebrook, August 26 - 27, 2022