Festivals in the Philippines in February

📍 Baler, Aurora

🗓️ First half of February, culminating Feb 19 (Doña Aurora's birthday)

Aurora's provincial celebration in Baler: surfing and skateboarding contests, trade fairs, food fiesta and parades, ending with rites and a fireworks show on Aurora Day.

📍 Tabuk City, Kalinga

🗓️ Early to mid-February, ending on Kalinga's founding day (Feb 14)

Kalinga's founding-anniversary festival, renamed from Ullalim in 2016, centers on the bodong peace pact between tribes. It features gong dances, a parade and a trade fair at Capitol Park.

📍 Cabadbaran City, Agusan del Norte

🗓️ February 2

Cabadbaran City's annual festival, held every February 2, a local special non-working day in the city.

📍 Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur

🗓️ February 26 (city charter day), with events in the days before

Zamboanga City's charter anniversary, marking the 1937 swearing-in of its first city officials: a civic-military parade, food and film festivals and cheerdance contests.

📍 Paoay, Ilocos Norte

🗓️ The Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (February or early March)

Paoay's pre-Lent celebration. The mayor marks a cross of rice flour on foreheads, and townsfolk in abel cloth dance in the streets near UNESCO-listed Paoay Church and share dudol.

📍 Iloilo City (Arevalo), Iloilo

🗓️ Late February to early March; main race on a Sunday (March 2 in 2025)

Asia's oldest traditional sailboat race: colorful paraw outrigger sailboats race across the Iloilo Strait between Arevalo and Guimaras, with sail-painting and beach events.

📍 Las Piñas City, Metro Manila – Fourth District

🗓️ February, a series of concerts over about ten days

Concert series at St. Joseph Parish Church built around its 19th-century organ with bamboo pipes, featuring local and visiting organists, choirs and orchestras.

📍 Iloilo City (Jaro), Iloilo

🗓️ February 2

Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria at Jaro Cathedral, a national Marian shrine, with candle blessings, a procession and a Fiesta Queen parade in one of Iloilo's grandest fiestas.

📍 Tagum City, Davao del Norte

🗓️ Late February to early March, up to Araw ng Tagum (March 7)

Tagum's long-running music festival, held since 1999: chorale, rondalla, band and drumline competitions and concerts leading up to the city's anniversary.

📍 Laoag City, Ilocos Norte

🗓️ Early February, culminating on Feb 10 (feast of St. William)

Laoag's city fiesta, named after an Ilocano folk song, with street dancing, a kalesa parade, trade fairs and concerts in the city center.

📍 Baguio City, Benguet

🗓️ All of February into early March; grand parades on the last weekend of Feb

Baguio's flower festival. The Grand Street Dance Parade and the Grand Floral Float Parade run along Session Road, followed by Session Road in Bloom with stalls on the closed-off road.

📍 Capas (New Clark City), Tarlac

🗓️ A February weekend (Feb 13–15 in 2026)

Hot air balloon flights at dawn, special-shaped balloons, an evening balloon night glow, drone shows and aviation displays. It moved from Clark, Pampanga to New Clark City in Tarlac.

📍 Miagao, Iloilo

🗓️ First half of February (Feb 2–9 in 2025)

Miagao's town festival with street dancing and cultural events in the town known for its UNESCO-listed church; its Salakayan tribe has also competed in Kasadyahan.

📍 Luna, Apayao

🗓️ February, culminating on Apayao's founding anniversary (Feb 14)

Apayao's provincial festival with Isnag dance showdowns, a float parade, indigenous games, an agro-tourism fair and a native-food cook fest.

📍 Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay

🗓️ Late February, leading to the Feb 24–26 founding anniversary

Zamboanga Sibugay's founding anniversary festival in Ipil: street dancing by the province's towns, parades and a long grill of talaba (oysters), the province's signature product.

📍 Laoag City, Ilocos Norte

🗓️ February (recent editions); one-night showdown at the Laoag stadium

Ilocos Norte's festival of festivals: contingents from the province's 21 towns and 2 cities perform their festival dances in one competition at the Marcos stadium.

📍 Iriga City, Camarines Sur

🗓️ February 11, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Iriga's harvest-offering festival mixing folk tradition and the Lourdes feast: decorated carts and floats with farm produce parade to the grotto as a first-harvest offering.

📍 Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

🗓️ Late January to mid-February, with Ilocos Sur's founding anniversary

Ilocos Sur's provincial festival of Ilocano culture: procession at St. Paul Cathedral, street dancing, boodle fights, heritage and trade exhibits.