Florida loves a good festival. Here are 75 hand-picked festivals around the state that range from funky local bashes to huge nationally known cultural events.
Festivals
2020 Florida Seafood Festivals Calendar: Updated with cancellations
Florida Rambler’s Seafood Festivals calendar is the most comprehensive available, updated monthly and current for 2020.
2020 Florida Spring Training games cancelled
Pick your games, and we’ll help you find other things to do and places to stay nearby.
Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival: Cancelled
This isn’t frozen shrimp or imported shrimp or farmed shrimp. The huge boiling pots at the Fort Myers Beach Shrimp Festival are filled with fresh, right-off-the-boat Gulf pink shrimp. Members of the Lions Club have perfected the cooking technique over 50 years of Shrimp Festivals.
Grant Seafood Festival, Feb. 29-March 1, 2020
The Grant Seafood Festival is put on by community volunteers and has been held every year since 1966 in this riverside enclave between Melbourne and Sebastian.
Florida State Fair, Tampa, Feb. 11-22, 2021
TAMPA — The Florida State Fair marks its 114th year. Our annual guide includes campground and lodging links with a full menu of things to do nearby.
Swamp Cabbage Fest marks 55 years (2021 dates TBA)
You can get gator tail and swamp cabbage at this festival. But the real reason to go is to revel in a last corner of small town America in Florida — beauty pageants, high school bands, armadillo races and a rodeo.
Florida Strawberry Festival – March 4-14, 2021
Reba, Neil McCoy, Patti LaBelle, Josh Turner, Lynyrd Skynyrd headline 2020 Florida Strawberry Festival
