Marbella's events calendar

Costume parades, children's contests and live music fill Marbella and San Pedro Alcántara through February. The dates move with the church calendar every year.

2026 dates

7–28 February 2026

Ten hermandades process through the week before Easter, most through the old town, ending on the Sunday. The busiest night is a Thursday: 3 processions in a row, the last past 11pm. As with Carnaval, the date moves every year.

2026 dates

28 March – 5 April 2026

Marbella's own saint's day and its biggest week on the calendar: flamenco, a funfair and free concerts, opening with the Romería de San Bernabé, a procession out of the town centre.

Romería

31 May 2026

Feria

8–14 June 2026

An open-air concert season built into the old quarry at Nagüeles, running most of the summer with acts announced through the season on the festival's own site.

2026 season

19 June – 31 August 2026

Venue

Cantera de Nagüeles, C/ Albinoni s/n

Nueva Andalucía, Las Chapas and Santa Marta each run their own week, the same format as San Bernabé at neighbourhood scale, back to back through midsummer. San Pedro Alcántara keeps its own week for October, around its own patron's day. The town's documented maritime tradition is the Virgen del Carmen procession each 16 July, sailing from Marbella's Puerto Deportivo to Puerto Banús.

Feria de Nueva Andalucía

23–26 July 2026

Fiestas de Santa Marta

25–26 July 2026

Fiestas de Las Chapas

30 July – 2 August 2026

Patron saint's day

16 July: maritime procession from Marbella's Puerto Deportivo to Puerto Banús

A patron-day fair of its own: a week of day and night ferias through the town centre, built around San Pedro Alcántara's saint's day, the second of Marbella's two local holidays.

2026 dates

13–19 October 2026 (marbella.es)

Patron saint's day

19 October, San Pedro de Alcántara

Red-carpet premieres and industry panels for its 21st edition, the town's one week as a stop on the festival circuit.

2026 dates

7–12 October 2026

Marbella closes for 14 days a year that are not Sundays: the national and Andalusian calendar, plus the town's own two, which are already on this page. Shops and offices shut; check before you plan an errand around one.

Marbella's own two

11 June (San Bernabé) and 19 October (San Pedro de Alcántara), Marbella's own two

Full 2026 calendar

14 non-working days in 2026, in total

The lights go up on Avenida Ramón y Cajal and the town stays dressed for it into January, with a Christmas market running the same weeks in the Alameda. The Ayuntamiento sets each year's date in November; this is the most recently confirmed one.

Lights switch-on (2025 season)

Saturday 29 November 2025, 20:00, Avenida Ramón y Cajal

Nochevieja

31 December, 23:00, Parque de la Represa (Marbella) and Plaza de la Iglesia (San Pedro)

Cabalgata de Reyes

5 January, every year

Every date above comes from the organiser's own site or the Ayuntamiento de Marbella's own listing, read on the date shown next to it. A year we cannot yet confirm is marked as the most recently confirmed one, not invented.

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