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.
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Kabankalan Sinulog
One of the three major festivals of the city, held on the third Sunday of January, the same day as the Sinulog in Cebu City. The other two are the Udyakan sa Kabankalan and the charter anniversary.
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. …
Buglasan Festival
The festival of festivals: every town and city of Negros Oriental brings its own festival to Dumaguete for ten days, with booths, street dancing and a food fair.
Kahimunan tu Bayugan Festival
A local version of Cebu's Sinulog, danced in the streets for the Holy Child on the last Sunday of January. The dances show the indigenous tribes of Bayugan and the way they live.
Tangub City Christmas Festival of Lights
The city fills with lit Christmas decorations for a month each year. People call Tangub the Christmas Symbols Capital of the Philippines.
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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Binaybayon Festival
The city-wide festival, held every 27 December for the patroness of Baybay, Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. It sets out the history of the city and the two trades most Baybayanons live by, fishing and farming.
Binirayan Festival
A week-long festival at San Jose with street parades, beach shows, plaza concerts, a beauty contest and a trade fair. Governor Evelio Javier started it in 1974. Binirayan comes from biray, the Kinaray-a word for sailboat, and the festival recalls the legend of the ten Bornean datus who …
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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 …
Halad Inasal Festival
A festival of roast pig, held on October 15 for Saint Teresa of Avila, the patron saint of the city. Talisay is called the Lechon Capital of Cebu, and its lechon goes by the local name inasal. Carcar is the other town in the province known for it. …
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Kahayag Festival
The town's Christmas festival: streets and public places are lit up to open the season, and there is a fireworks display. Kahayag means light, which the town takes to stand for hope, joy and solidarity through Advent.
Manggahan Festival
The island's mango festival, and the reason most visitors come in May. It runs the whole month, and it first ran on 22 May 1993, the day Guimaras marks its founding as a province. Locals wear mango-inspired costumes and build mango-themed floats for a parade that makes its …
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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San Miguel of Iligan
An image of Saint Michael the archangel that wears a Native American headdress, a practice taken from the Aztec and the Inca, when he goes into battle against Satan. The animist Lumad, the Muslim Moro and the Christian Visayan, Chavacano and Latino people who live together in the …
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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 …
Sinulog sa Digos
Every January 15, Sinulog sa Digos brings the city's own version of Cebu's Sinulog celebration to its streets, as part of the year's round of fiestas.
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Tagum New Year Fireworks Show
Tagum puts on a 30-minute fireworks show every New Year's Eve, drawing visitors from nearby Davao City for the turn of the year. The display takes place in Briz District and is visible from Poblacion, Magdum, Visayan Village, and Canocotan. The city government bans all other fireworks within …
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 Digos
The city day, kept every 8 September, the date Digos became a city in 2000. The other fiestas in the city year are Sinulog sa Digos on 15 January, San Isidro Labrador on 15 May, the Padigosan Festival on 19 July and Mary Mediatrix on 22 August.
Pasko sa Sugbo
Cebu City's Christmas season. The lighting of the tree at Fuente Osmeña opens it, and the lanterns stay up into the new year.
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Sangyaw Festival
A competition of performing groups, with contingents invited from festivals all over the country to dance for cash prizes and trophies. The dancing fills the streets in costume, and the festival is held in honour of the Santo Niño, the Child Jesus. Sangyaw is an old Waray word …
Sinadya sa Halaran
A joint fiesta of Roxas City and the province, held for the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the city. The name puts together the city fiesta Sinadya and the provincial thanksgiving Halaran, and it means Joy in Sharing and Thanksgiving. Fireworks, parades, fluvial processions, fairs, …
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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Araw ng Dabaw
The 89th Araw ng Dabaw. Davao was founded on 16 March 1937, and the day is a local holiday. The month held district celebrations, and Parada Dabawenyo ran on 28 March.
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