List of festivals in the United Kingdom
England
A
- Albion Fairs
- Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
- Appleby Jazz Festival
- Arundel Festival
B
- Barnes Film Festival
- Bath Fringe Festival
- Bath International Music Festival
- Bath Literature Festival
- Beached Festival in Scarborough
- Bedford River Festival
- Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
- Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival
- Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
- Blissfields, near Winchester
- Boishakhi Mela festival
- Bradford Literature Festival
- Bradford Mela Festival
- Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
- Bridgwater: Guy Fawkes Carnival
- Brighton Festival
- Brighton Festival Fringe
- Bristol: Ashton Court, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival
- Bromyard Folk Festival
- Bulldog Bash Motorcycle Festival
- BunkFest
- Burtfest, Burton Upon Trent
- Bury Festival, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire
C
- Castlemorton Common Festival
- Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals:
- * Cheltenham Cricket Festival
- * Cheltenham Jazz Festival
- * Cheltenham Literature Festival
- * Cheltenham Music Festival
- * Cheltenham Science Festival
- Chicken Stock Festival, small arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire
- Cleveland: Middlesbrough Music Live Stockton Riverside Festival
- Clitheroe Food Festival, Lancashire's premier food and drink festival, Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite, Royal Show
- Creamfields dance music festival
- Cropredy Festival
- Cypriot Film Festival UK
D
- Deepdale Festival, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
- Deepdale Hygge, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
- Donington Monsters of Rock
- Dover Carnival, Dover, England
- Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park since 2003
- Durham Miners' Gala
E
- Endless Festival
- Esethvos Kernow, Cornwall
F
- Frome Festival, Somerset
- FuseLeeds
G
- Glastonbury Festival
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- Godiva Festival
- Golowan Festival
- Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire
- Green Man Festival
- Greenbelt festival
- Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
- Guilfest
H
- H2OFest
- Harrogate: Harrogate International Festivals, Great Yorkshire Show
- Hay-on-Wye: Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
- Hemsby Festival
- Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival
- Huddersfield: Caribbean Carnival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Asian Mela
I
- Ilkley Literature Festival
- International Festival of the Sea
- International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral
- International Organ Festival at St Albans
- Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970
J
Jersey EisteddfodK
- Keighley: Keighley Festival
- Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Keswick Mountain Festival
- Knebworth concerts
L
- Land of Kings, London Borough of Hackney
- The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal, Cumbria
- Latitude Festival, Suffolk
- Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
- LeeFest, Bromley
- Leicester: Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival
- Letchworth Garden City: Rap-Aid Music Festival
- Lichfield Festival
- Liverpool: Liverpool Garden Festival Portobello Film Festival
- London: Carnival de Cuba; Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival; City of London Festival; Covent Garden Festival; Dollshouse Festival; Festival of Britain ; Greenwich+Docklands International Festival; Greenwich Film Festival; Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Notting Hill Carnival; Oktoberfest, the German cultural festival held in Richmond-upon-Thames; Portobello Film Festival; Spitalfields Festival
- London History Festival
- Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
- Lumiere festival
- Luton Carnival
- Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
N
- Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hoppings
- Newlyn Fish Festival
- Norfolk and Norwich Festival
- Nouka Baich
O
P
- Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
- Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire
- Peterborough Festival
- Parklife Weekender, Heaton Park
R
- Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD
- RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
- Ross on Wye International Festival
S
- Salisbury International Arts Festival
- Sathiyanathan Natarajan
- Scarborough Literature Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival
- Shifnal Festival
- Sidmouth International Festival
- Slapstick Festival
- Soundwave Festival
- St Barnabas Community Fete, Bow, London
- Stonehenge Free Festival
- Strawberry Fair, Cambridge
- Swan Upping
T
- Thames Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
- Towersey Village Festival
- Tramlines Festival
- Thought Bubble Festival
U
V
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- Zebra Festival
Scotland
- Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, The World Festival of Youth Arts; Word; Wordfringe; Dance Live; Sound
- Dumfries and Galloway: Gaelfest
- Dundee: Dundee Flower and Food Festival, Dundee Guitar Festival, Dundee Blues Bonanza, Dundee International Book Prize
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festivals of the Sea
- Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
- Glasgow: Glasgow Jazz Festival; Celtic Connections; MovieMinds, an international online film festival
- Hebridean Celtic Festival
- Inverary: Connect Festival
- Inverness: Highland Festival
- Orkney: St Magnus Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Shetland: Up Helly-Aa
- Ullapool: Loopallu Festival
Wales
- Abergavenny Food Festival
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- Cardiff Festival
- Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye
- Llangollen International Eisteddfod
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Pontardawe Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Small Nations Festival
- Urdd National Eisteddfod
Northern Ireland
- Belfast Festival at Queens
- Belfast Film Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, Belfast and Derry
Themes
- Film: Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Lesbian and Gay, Portobello, Sheffield
- Folk: Bridgnorth, Bromyard, Cambridge, Cropredy, Fleetwood, Sidmouth, Towersey, Warwick, Wimborne
- Jazz: Bath, Birmingham, Burnham Deepdale, Coventry, Glasgow, Clitheroe
- Literature: Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Hay, Ilkley, Worcestershire Literary Festival, Wordfringe
- Other: Bristol Harbour Festival, HowTheLightGetsIn