Find all the dates you need to know with Kent’s 2025 events calendar
It’s never too early to start looking ahead and getting excited about what the next 12 months might hold.
We’ve got a calendar of events, from national holidays to Kent’s unmissable festivals and days out, so you can start filling up your 2025 diary…
JANUARY
1: New Year’s Day
24-25: Gravesham Light Festival
29: Chinese New Year
FEBRUARY
13: Sydnie Christmas at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
14: Valentine’s Day
25: Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards at Chilston Park Hotel, Maidstone
MARCH
2: Maidstone Road Run
4: Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)
5: Ash Wednesday
6: World Book Day
8: Brickwrecks: Sunken Ships in Lego Bricks at the Historic Dockyard Chatham
21: Red Nose Day
30: Mother’s Day
APRIL
5: Heritage Transport Show at the Kent Event Centre, Detling
18: Good Friday
18-20: Easter Food Festival, Broadstairs
20: Easter Sunday
21: Easter Monday
23: St George’s Day
MAY
3-5: Sweeps Festival, Rochester
5: Early May bank holiday
17: Inflatable 5k at Brands Hatch, West Kingsdown
17: Kent Food Fest at Little Elses, Knockholt
17-18: Faversham Festival of Transport
23-25: Rock the Mote at Mote Park, Maidstone
25: The Colour Run at Betteshanger Park, Deal
25: Got the Love Festival at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea
26: Late May bank holiday
JUNE
6-7: CAMRA Real Ale and Cider Festival at the Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden
7: Canterbury Pride
13: Scooter at Dreamland, Margate
14: Festability at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea
14: Rewind Festival at Dreamland, Margate
15: Father’s Day
20: Jools Holland at Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
20: Supergrass at Dreamland, Margate
28: Armed Forces Day
JULY
4-6: Kent County Show at the Kent Event Centre, Detling
5: Canterbury Medieval Pageant
5: The Libertines at Dreamland, Margate
5: Sausage and Cider Festival at Quex Park, Birchington-on-Sea
12: Margate Reggae Festival at Dreamland
12: Leeds Castle Concert, near Maidstone
18: Texas at Dreamland, Margate
19: Sausage and Cider Festival at Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells
19: Start of the Folkestone Triennial
18-20: Maid of Stone Festival at Mote Park, Maidstone
25-26: Blue Reef Festival at Loddington Farm in Linton, Maidstone
26: Basement Jaxx at Dreamland, Margate
31-3: Chickenstock Music Festival at Pett Wood Cottage, Stockbury
AUGUST
1-3: Margate Soul Festival
2: Madness at Dreamland, Margate
8: Roger Daltrey at Dreamland, Margate
9: Margate Pride
9-15: Broadstairs Folk Week
15: Olly Murs at Dreamland, Margate
15-17: A New Day Festival at Mount Ephraim, near Faversham
16-17: Manston International Airshow, near Ramsgate
16-17: Biddenden Tractorfest at Holden Farm
23-25: We Love Hythe Food and Drink Festival at Hythe Green
23: Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at Dreamland, Margate
24: Kent Tribute Festival at Strode Park, Herne Bay
24: Maribou State at Dreamland, Margate
25: Summer bank holiday
30-31: Faversham Hop Festival
SEPTEMBER
20-21: Paws in the Park at the Kent Event Centre, Detling
OCTOBER
3-5: Autumn Food Festival, Broadstairs
31: Halloween
NOVEMBER
5: Guy Fawkes Night
9: Remembrance Sunday
11: Remembrance Day
21: Children in Need
DECEMBER
12: Christmas Jumper Day
24: Christmas Eve
25: Christmas Day
26: Boxing Day
31: New Year’s Eve
