Festivals in the Philippines in April

📍 Kalibo, Aklan

🗓️ Around April 25 (provincial founding), activities into early May

Aklan's founding-anniversary celebration at the Kalibo capitol, with a fiber festival and trade fair showcasing piña cloth and abaca weaving, plus food and agricultural fairs and a fashion show.

📍 Antipolo City, Rizal

🗓️ Overnight April 30 to May 1; Maytime fiesta and Sumakah fest in May

Hundreds of thousands walk about 24 km from Quiapo to the shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage. The Sumakah street festival (suman, mangga, kasoy, hamaka) follows on May 1.

📍 Dagupan City, Pangasinan

🗓️ April to May 1; Bangusan street party on April 30

Dagupan's milkfish festival, with a street party where thousands of bangus are grilled along the highway and a closing at Tondaligan beach.

📍 Daet, Camarines Norte

🗓️ Mid-April to early May, with the provincial founding anniversary

Camarines Norte's founding-anniversary festival, also marking the 1898 Daet Revolt. Surfing cup, arnis festival, music festival and street dancing.

📍 Roxas City, Capiz

🗓️ April, starting around April 15 (provincial founding anniversary)

Capiz's provincial founding-anniversary festival honoring Manuel Roxas, with cultural shows, trade fairs and the Surambaw seafood feast in the self-styled Seafood Capital of the Philippines.

📍 Iba, Zambales

🗓️ April or May, at mango season's peak (May 21–24 in 2025)

Zambales' mango festival centered on the Capitol in Iba: fun run, mango congress, cooking contests, street dancing and a closing float parade.

📍 Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte

🗓️ Around April 24–25, Kauswagan's founding anniversary

Kauswagan's sea festival honoring San Vicente Ferrer, a thanksgiving for the town's catch with street dancing and boat events at the municipal pier.

📍 Banaue, Ifugao

🗓️ Late April; not held every year (Urpih town fiesta in off years)

Banaue's Ifugao cultural festival with a barangay parade, street dancing, native games such as wooden-scooter races, and rice-wine thanksgiving rites. Check with Banaue LGU whether it runs this year.

📍 Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu

🗓️ April 27, with festivities through April

Commemoration of Lapulapu's 1521 victory over Magellan, highlighted by a beach reenactment of the Battle of Mactan at the Liberty Shrine in Barangay Mactan.

📍 Bontoc, Mountain Province

🗓️ Early April, with Mountain Province's founding anniversary

Named after the toast 'lang-ay' (to good health), the festival brings the province's towns together for a parade, indigenous dances, rice-wine sharing and a trade fair. The 2026 edition was scaled down.

📍 Liliw, Laguna

🗓️ Late April (about three days)

Liliw's festival for its slipper-making industry: a footwear trade fair along the main road, giant tsinelas displays, marching bands and a costume parade.

📍 San Carlos City, Pangasinan

🗓️ April

San Carlos City's trade festival for its mango orchards and bamboo craft, with mango-food competitions, a bamboo products fair and street dancing.

📍 San Jose, Occidental Mindoro

🗓️ Indak Pandurucan street dance Apr 29; festival day May 1

San Jose's town festival: the Indak Pandurucan street-dancing competition, then a lantern parade and concerts at the municipal plaza.

📍 Lingayen, Pangasinan

🗓️ April into early May, culminating May 1 at the Capitol beachfront

Pangasinan's 'festival of the sea' thanks the sea for its bounty. It ends with a thanksgiving Mass and street-dance showcase at Lingayen's Capitol beachfront, and the Limgas na Pangasinan pageant runs alongside.

📍 Masbate City, Masbate

🗓️ April, competitions usually in the second week

Masbate's cattle-country rodeo: riders from ranches and schools compete in bull riding, lassoing, steer wrestling and other events, with a parade on horseback.

📍 Tagbilaran City, Bohol

🗓️ Late April events, culminating May 1 (feast of St. Joseph the Worker)

Tagbilaran City's fiesta festival for St. Joseph the Worker, with a street-dancing showdown, fluvial parade, pageant and the Maoy sa Mayo concert.

📍 San Jose City, Nueva Ecija

🗓️ April (fourth Sunday)

San Jose City's onion festival, named after the local tanduyong onion, with street dancing and agri-trade events celebrating the harvest.

📍 San Jose de Buenavista, Antique

🗓️ Mid-April to May 1, feast of St. Joseph the Worker

The provincial capital's thanksgiving festival for its patron St. Joseph the Worker, revived after the pandemic with street dancing and town fiesta events.

📍 Pakil, Laguna

🗓️ April–May; dates move each year with the Lenten calendar

Pakil's devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows (Nuestra Señora de los Dolores de Turumba), with dancing processions where devotees sing and sway behind the image.

📍 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

🗓️ Last week of April to the first week of May

Vigan's arts festival, named after the beating of cotton for abel weaving: Binatbatan street dancing, a calesa parade, Santacruzan, an abel fashion show and art in the park.

📍 Jordan, Guimaras

🗓️ Good Friday (Holy Week), roughly noon to 3 PM

A live street-play of the Passion staged since 1975, moving from Jordan's town plaza up to the Balaan Bukid hilltop shrine, where the crucifixion scene draws thousands of pilgrims.

📍 Siquijor (Mt. Bandilaan), Siquijor

🗓️ Holy Week, centered on Good Friday and Black Saturday

Traditional healers (mananambal) and herbalists gather on Mt. Bandilaan to prepare herbal potions and perform folk-healing rituals, drawing visitors curious about Siquijor's mystic traditions.

📍 Malaybalay City, Bukidnon

🗓️ About a month from mid-March into April (opened March 19 in 2026)

Bukidnon's gathering of its seven indigenous tribes: rituals at the capitol grounds, ethnic street dancing and showcases of Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo and other cultures.

📍 Boac, Mogpog, Gasan, Santa Cruz and other towns, Marinduque

🗓️ Holy Week (Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday)

Masked 'moryons' dressed as Roman soldiers roam the towns all week, re-enacting the story of Longinus. His capture and beheading (pugutan) are staged near the end of Holy Week.

📍 Catarman, Camiguin

🗓️ Holy Week (Maundy Thursday to Good Friday)

Holy Week pilgrimage in which devotees walk the island's 64-km circumferential road, ending with a climb up Mt. Vulcan's Stations of the Cross in Catarman.

📍 Bacolod City, Negros Occidental

🗓️ One week in late March or April (Mar 24–30, 2025; Apr 13–19, 2026)

Negros Occidental's 'festival of festivals' at Panaad Park, where every city and town builds a showcase booth and competes with its festival dance; food, trade fairs and concerts.

📍 City of San Fernando, Pampanga

🗓️ Good Friday (Holy Week, March or April)

Via Crucis street play that ends with devotees being nailed to crosses in Barangay San Pedro Cutud. Flagellants walk the streets in the days before. Expect large crowds and heat.

📍 La Trinidad, Benguet

🗓️ Month-long through March, sometimes running into the first days of April

La Trinidad's harvest festival for its strawberry farms: street dancing and float parade, contests for the heaviest and sweetest berries, and a giant strawberry cake sliced and sold to visitors.