Marbella Events
The Costa del Sol's recurring dates in one place: Carnaval, the town's own saint's fair, Starlite, the film festival and Navidad. Each date is read from the organiser's own page or the Ayuntamiento de Marbella's, never guessed.
Checked against each organiser's own listing, 20 August 2026. A date not yet published for next year is marked as such, not filled in.
Carnaval de Marbella
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
Semana Santa
Brotherhoods carry their pasos, the processional floats, through the Casco Antiguo in the week before Easter Sunday. Like Carnaval, the date moves every year.
- 2026 dates
- 31 March – 5 April 2026
Feria y Fiestas de San Bernabé
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
Starlite Occident Festival
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
The summer's town fairs
San Pedro Alcántara, 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.
- 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
Marbella International Film Festival
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
Navidad en Marbella
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
- Cabalgata de Reyes
- 5 January, every year
How we date this
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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