Festivals in Cornwall run all year and cover every kind of celebration, from the biggest names in music to village customs that go back centuries. This is a quick tour of what the county's calendar holds, and everything here is listed in full on our festivals page.
Music festivals
The headline events are on the coast: Boardmasters at Newquay, the Eden Sessions near St Austell, and seaside weekends like Tunes in the Dunes and the Rock Oyster Festival. For folk and jazz, there is the Cornwall Folk Festival and the long-running Bude Jazz Festival.
Food and drink
Cornwall's food festivals make the most of its harbours and orchards, from Cornish Pasty Week and the Falmouth Oyster Festival to town celebrations in Falmouth, Truro and Padstow.
Customs and community
The county's calendar customs are world-famous: St Piran's Day, the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss, Helston Flora Day and the midwinter fires of Montol and Tom Bawcock's Eve.
Arts, words and the sea
Literature festivals gather in Fowey, Penzance and Falmouth, the Cornwall Film Festival champions Cornish film, and the World Pilot Gig Championships on the Isles of Scilly are the pinnacle of Cornish gig rowing.