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Festivals in February 2027

17 festivals worth traveling for this February, soonest first. Multi-week festivals show up in every month they run.

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Costumed revelers in blue masks and tricorn hats at the Venice Carnival
Jan 23 – Feb 9, 2027

Venice Carnival

Masks, capes and candlelit balls in the canal city's pre-Lenten masquerade

Venice, Italy$$$$
Dancers in blue skirts and bowler hats parade in formation through a crowded Puno street during the Fiesta de la Candelaria
Jan 30 – Feb 9, 2027

Fiesta de la Candelaria (Puno)

Hundreds of dance troupes honour the Virgin on the shores of Lake Titicaca

Puno, Peru$$$$
A carnival float with a giant jester figure during the Cologne Carnival parade
Feb 4–9, 2027

Cologne Carnival

Six days of costumes, Kölsch and the Rose Monday parade on the Rhine

Cologne, Germany$$$$
Drummers and dancers filling a Salvador street during Carnival
Feb 4–9, 2027

Salvador Carnival

Trios elétricos and Afro-Brazilian blocos take over Bahia's capital for six days

Salvador, Brazil$$$$
Ice sculptures lit up at night in Sapporo
Feb 4–11, 2027

Sapporo Snow Festival

Building-sized snow sculptures and glittering ice art down the length of Odori Park

Sapporo, Japan$$$$
Red paper lanterns hung for Chinese New Year
Feb 5–20, 2027

Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)

Red lanterns, reunion dinners and firecrackers as China welcomes the lunar new year

Beijing, China$$$$
Ice sculptures and crowds in front of the Quebec City skyline at the Winter Carnival
Feb 5–14, 2027

Québec Winter Carnival

A snowman king, ice canoe races and night parades in a walled city under snow

Québec City, Canada$$$$
A smiling woman in a feathered costume holding flowers at the Barranquilla Carnival
Feb 6–9, 2027

Barranquilla Carnival

Cumbia, marimondas and the Battle of Flowers in Colombia's Caribbean carnival

Barranquilla, Colombia$$$$
A troupe of blue devil dancers in motion at Trinidad Carnival
Feb 7–9, 2027

Trinidad and Tobago Carnival

J'ouvert mud at dawn, steelpan and soca, then feathered mas bands on the road

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago$$$$
Fasnacht musicians in green-haired clown masks playing trumpets on a Basel street
Feb 15–18, 2027

Basel Fasnacht

At 4am the lights go out and Basel's old town fills with lanterns, fifes and drums

Basel, Switzerland$$$$
Rows of glowing red paper lanterns hanging for the Lantern Festival
Feb 20, 2027

Lantern Festival (Yuanxiao)

The first full moon of the lunar year lights up lantern fairs, riddles and sweet dumplings

Nanjing, China$$$$
Illuminated ice castle towers glowing at night at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
Dec 18, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027est.

Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival

Castles carved from river ice glow neon in China's coldest big-city winter

Harbin, China$$$$
A giant white bull float rolling through a New Orleans street during a Mardi Gras parade
Jan 29 – Feb 9, 2027est.

Mardi Gras

New Orleans parades, krewes and flying beads through carnival season to Fat Tuesday

New Orleans, United States$$$$
Fireworks over the city for Tet Nguyen Dan in Vietnam
Feb 4–10, 2027est.

Tết Nguyên Đán

Vietnam goes home for the lunar new year, in a riot of peach blossom and red

Hanoi, Vietnam$$$$
A colorful parade float at the Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro
Feb 5–13, 2027est.

Rio Carnival

Samba schools, street blocos and the Sambadrome's all-night parades before Lent

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil$$$$
A line of dancers in embroidered costumes at the Carnaval de Oruro
Feb 6–9, 2027est.

Carnaval de Oruro

Devils, condors and miners dance twenty hours to the Virgin in Bolivia's highland carnival

Oruro, Bolivia$$$$
Hundreds of glowing paper sky lanterns rise into the night sky over Pingxi during the Sky Lantern Festival in Taiwan
Feb 13–20, 2027est.

Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival

Hundreds of paper wishes rise from a Taiwanese mountain valley at Lantern Festival

New Taipei City, Taiwan$$$$