claude-apiEvery fiesta Benidorm has between now and the end of January, in the calendar app you already use. Thirty-six dates, from the council’s own calendar. It takes one tap.
On an iPhone or iPad
Your phone will ask whether you want to subscribe. Say yes. That is the whole thing.
It appears as its own calendar alongside your own, so you can switch it off or delete it whenever you like without touching anything else. And because it is a subscription rather than a copy, when the council publishes the 2027 dates and I update it, yours updates too. You will not need to do this again.
On an Android phone
The file will download, and opening it puts the dates into Google Calendar.
One difference worth knowing, because I would rather tell you than have you find out: on Android this adds a copy, not a subscription. The dates go in and they stay as they are. When I update the calendar next year you will need to come back and tap the link again. That is Google’s doing rather than mine, and there is no way round it on the phone.
If you would rather have the version that updates itself, you can set it up on a computer. Open Google Calendar in a browser, find “Other calendars” down the left-hand side, click the plus, and choose “From URL”. Paste this in:
https://benidormoldtown.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/benidorm-fiestas.ics
It will be on your phone a few minutes later, and it will keep itself up to date from then on.
On Outlook
Add calendar, then “Subscribe from web”, and paste the same address as above.
What you have just added
Thirty-six dates from September through to the end of January. Moros y Cristianos at the start of October, the Festes Majors Patronals in November, the Three Kings in January, and all the smaller ones in between that never get written about in English. Public holidays are in there too, because knowing the banks are shut matters as much on a holiday as knowing where the parade is.
They go in as all-day entries marked free rather than busy, so nothing here will make you look unavailable to anybody who can see your diary.
The four biggest have a link on the event. Tap it and you get the page explaining what actually happens on the day.
Two honest limitations
The council publishes its fiesta calendar in January, so individual days can still move. For anything you are travelling specifically to see, check with the organising association before you book anything.
There are no times, only days. The programme for each fiesta comes out much closer to the day, and a made-up time in your calendar would be worse than no time at all.
Not working?
Reply to any issue of the Bulletin and tell me what happened and what sort of phone you have. I will sort it out.
