GlynMost people who come to Benidorm never see a fiesta. They arrive in July, they leave in July, and the only procession they witness is the one heading to the beach at ten in the morning.
It is not their fault. The town’s calendar is published by the council in January, in Spanish, as a PDF that no listings site bothers to read properly. So the parades happen, several thousand people in costume come down the main street, and the visitors in the bars look up and wonder what they have wandered into.
Here is the whole thing, from now to the end of January. Every one has a button. Tap it and that single fiesta goes into whatever calendar app is already on your phone. Take the one you care about and leave the rest, or add three of them one at a time. Nothing to install, and no need to take the lot.
September 2026
5 September
Coins laid end to end along a tape to fund the November fiestas. Not a race, whatever the name suggests.
5 September
Presentación Prensa, Falla Els Tolls
12 September
Misa presentación Hermano Mayor, Hdad. del Rocío
18 September
Presentación Prensa, Falla Benidorm
19 September
Coronación, Casa de Andalucía
20 September
Mig Any, Junta Local Fallera
25–27 September
Fiestas del Barrio Imalsa II
A neighbourhood fiesta, run by and for the barrio.
26 September
Concurso de Música Festera
October 2026
1–4 October
Two armies, four days, and the biggest street parade of the year. The Gran Entrada is on the Saturday.
9 October
Día de la Comunitat Valenciana
Regional public holiday. Banks and offices shut.
9–11 October
Fira de Productes de la Terra
A local produce fair run by the Festes Majors Patronals commission.
12 October
Día de la Hispanidad
National public holiday, three days after the last one.
16–18 October
Rocío Chico
18 October
Ofrenda de Flores, Ntra. Sra. de la Almudena
18 October
Exaltació de Bellezas y Corte, H. La Cala
22–24 October
Triduo de la Virgen de la Almudena
24 October
Dia de les Penyes
The peñas get their own day.
25 October
Procesión de Ntra. Sra. de la Almudena
Closes the month. The clocks go back in the early hours of this Sunday.
November 2026
1 November
Todos los Santos
6–11 November
Benidorm’s own week. The finding of the Virgin is re-staged on Poniente beach on the Saturday, and everything else in the calendar has been funding it since January.
9 November
Ntra. Sra. de la Almudena
14 November
Festa La Carxofa
28 November
Christmas square opens
The Plaza Navidad goes up.
December 2026
6 December
Día de la Constitución
National public holiday. With the 8th, this makes the puente.
8 December
La Inmaculada
National public holiday.
10–12 December
Triduo de Ntra. Sra. de la Esperanza
12 December
Exaltación Falla Els Tolls
19 December
Exaltación Falla Benidorm
24 December
Nit de Nadal
Christmas Eve.
31 December
Fin de Año
New Year’s Eve. The square, the grapes at midnight, and a great many people in fancy dress.
January 2027
5 January
The Three Kings. The biggest night of the year for Spanish children, and the presents are opened on the morning of the 6th.
5 January
Cabalgata de Reyes, Ermita de Sanz
The smaller second parade, the same evening, out at the Ermita.
9–10 January
Coronación Reinas FMP 2027
15–17 January
Sant Antoni
The patron of animals, and one of the most active associations in the Old Town.
23 January
Exaltación Falla Rincón de Loix
If you would rather have the lot
Adding them one at a time suits most people, because most people want two or three dates rather than thirty-six. But the whole calendar exists as a single subscription, and on an iPhone it keeps itself up to date, so when the council publishes the 2027 dates yours change on their own.
That one comes with the Bulletin, along with the two guides, the holiday countdown and the Reader Card. If you are already on the list, the link is in the email.
A note on the dates
These come from the council’s own fiesta calendar rather than from a listings site, which matters more than it sounds. English-language sites routinely carry Benidorm fiesta dates a year out of step. Where a site disagrees with the council, the council wins.
The council publishes in January, so individual days can still move. A handful of fiestas genuinely have no date until a few weeks beforehand; those are marked pending, and rather than guess at them, I have left them out. There are no times either, only days, because each fiesta’s programme comes out much closer to the day and a made-up time in your calendar would be worse than no time at all.
If you would rather read than tap, the full year of Benidorm festivals is written out month by month, with what each one actually involves.
