Panagbenga Festival
The 30th Panagbenga, under the theme Blooming Without End. The grand street dance parade ran on 28 February and the grand float parade down Session Road on 1 March. Fireworks closed the festival on 8 March.
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Feast of the Black Nazarene
The Traslacion carried the Black Nazarene from Intramuros to Quiapo Church. 9.6 million people joined, and the procession took 30 hours and 50 minutes, the longest on record.
Moriones Festival
A Holy Week parade of people dressed as Moryons, known locally as the Moryonan, held from March to April. They walk the main road that links Santa Cruz, Gasan, Boac and Mogpog, the four towns that keep it. In the evening Boac and Santa Cruz act out the …
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Pahiyas Festival
The harvest thanksgiving of Lucban: households cover the fronts of their houses with what they grew, from rice and squash to chayotes, radishes, tomatoes and sweet potatoes. The bright leaf shapes among them are kiping, ornaments made from ground rice flour and dyed in different colours. The town …
Chinese New Year in Binondo
The year of the horse opened on 17 February. Binondo, the oldest Chinatown anywhere, fills with dragon and lion dances, firecrackers and tikoy.
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Adivay Festival
The province's founding anniversary, kept for the whole month: a trade fair of Benguet produce, rituals, and the grand cañao on 23 November, the day Benguet was founded in 1900.
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Ibagiw Creative Festival
Baguio is a UNESCO Creative City for crafts and folk art. Ibagiw fills November with craft markets, workshops and shows from the city's weavers, carvers and painters.
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Vigan City Fiesta and Longganisa Festival
The city fiesta, with the sausage makers at the centre of it: longganisa cooked in the open on Plaza Burgos, a float parade and a street dance.
Ibalong Festival
The city's own festival, out of the Ibalong epic: street dancers wear the masks of the heroes Baltog, Handyong and Bantong. It went ahead in August, with Mayon still at Alert Level 3.
Palu-palo Festival
Basco's town fiesta. Palu-palo is a stick dance that re-enacts the Ivatan fight against Spanish rule, and the two days carry it with a parade and a market.
Strawberry Festival
The 2026 festival, Limitless La Trinidad, opened at the municipal grounds on 4 March. The Strawberry Cake Fest served a giant shortcake on 29 March, and the awards closed the month on 1 April.
Rodeo Masbateño
The only rodeo show in Asia, held every April with ten competitive events. The one it is known for is the figure of eight, where the cowboy crisscrosses around a group of barrels. Women compete as well, in calf wrestling, calf lassoing and carambola.
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Magayon Festival
Cancelled for 2026. The province called the festival off on 19 March: Mayon stayed at Alert Level 3, and the fuel crisis took the budget. It was to run from 8 to 22 May.
Wattah Wattah Festival
The feast of Saint John the Baptist, held every June 24, when people douse each other with water in the street. The image of the saint goes in procession down N. Domingo Street and Pinaglabanan Street, with dancing and parades. The city has kept the festival since 2003. …
Feast of Our Lady of Caysasay
Two days for the image found in the Pansipit River in 1603. A procession goes from the shrine down to the river, a fluvial procession follows, and the town walks the image back up to the basilica.
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Chicharon Iniruban Festival
A harvest and pork festival in the town of Camiling, held in the last week of October, just before All Saints' Day. It gives thanks for the crop and for the year's meat, above all the chicharon that Ilocanos call bagnet. The other food of the week is …
Pasayahan sa Lucena
The city's yearly festival, run by the city government, with live music, food, dancing and other leisure events. It began in 1987 and has been held every year since. The Grand Parade is the main day: floats built by the businesses and groups that join, street dancing, marching …
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Santo Niño de Cabuyao Festival
The city's feast of the Child Jesus, held on the third Sunday of January. A Mass at Cabuyao Church starts the day, then every Santo Niño image in the city goes on parade through the city proper. The Alimagno family began the celebration in 1981 to give thanks …
Baragatan sa Palawan
The province's festival, held in its capital: every town of Palawan sets up a booth at the capitol. The grand parade ran on 12 June and the festival closed on 23 June.
Araw ng Maynila
The city's day, kept on the feast of St John the Baptist, its patron. Manila was made a city on 24 June 1571. The day is a local holiday.
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