Festivals in the Philippines in June

📍 Maasin City, Southern Leyte

🗓️ Late June to July 1 (provincial founding day)

Southern Leyte's founding-anniversary celebration in the capital, with agri-fish fairs, cultural shows and festival presentations from the province's towns.

📍 Tuguegarao City, Cagayan

🗓️ June, culminating on Cagayan Day (June 29)

Month-long provincial celebration of Cagayan's 1583 founding, with street dancing, trade fairs, sports and cultural events in Tuguegarao and other towns.

📍 Puerto Princesa City (Provincial Capitol), Palawan

🗓️ Most of June, marking Palawan's founding anniversary (June 23)

Palawan's provincial festival at the Capitol grounds: Caraenan food fair, agri-trade booths from every town, sports, and the Saraotan sa Dalan street-dance competition.

📍 Province-wide, Ifugao

🗓️ Mid-June, around Ifugao's founding anniversary

Ifugao's provincial founding celebration. 'Gotad' is a thanksgiving feast, and towns present native dances, chants, rituals and games.

📍 Cagwait, Surigao del Sur

🗓️ Late June, around June 24 (feast of St. John the Baptist)

Three-day beach festival in Cagwait held in honor of St. John the Baptist.

📍 Aloguinsan, Cebu

🗓️ June, around the town fiesta (second Sunday of June)

Aloguinsan's festival named after the kinsan (dotted grouper) fish abundant in its waters, celebrated alongside the fiesta of St. Raphael the Archangel.

📍 Lamitan City, Basilan

🗓️ Late June (opened June 26 in 2025)

Lamitan's festival of Yakan culture and Christian-Muslim harmony, opening with rites at the Datu Kalun Shrine and a parade of residents in hand-woven Yakan attire.

📍 Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur

🗓️ June 12 to June 17 (province founding anniversary)

Agusan del Sur's week-long festival honoring the Manobo and other tribes, with rituals, a tribal parade, street dancing and displays of local crafts.

📍 Balayan, Batangas

🗓️ June 24, feast of St. John the Baptist

Dozens of costumed roast pigs are paraded through Balayan amid street dancing and water dousing (basaan) for St. John the Baptist.

📍 Sorsogon City, Sorsogon

🗓️ June, leading to the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul (June 29)

Sorsogon City's fiesta for the pili nut, with a street dance in pili-inspired costumes and pili products sold around the city.

📍 Ormoc City, Leyte

🗓️ June, street dance and ritual showdown in the latter half of June

Ormoc's festival celebrating its famously sweet Queen pineapple, with street dancing, a ritual showdown and fiesta events.

📍 Tacloban City, Leyte

🗓️ Late June, festival of festivals around June 27–29

Tacloban's fiesta for the Señor Santo Niño: dancers painted like the tattooed 'pintados' warriors, plus a festival-of-festivals parade of Leyte town contingents.

📍 Daet, Camarines Norte

🗓️ Mid-to-late June (about June 15–24)

Daet's festival for the sweet Formosa pineapple: float parade, street dancing, an agro-industrial fair, free pineapples and the Miss Pinyasan pageant.

📍 Cavite City, Cavite

🗓️ Several days, culminating June 24 (feast of St. John the Baptist)

Cavite City's water festival. Sprinklers and fire trucks drench revelers along P. Burgos Avenue, with street dancing, concerts and food stalls on the days before.

📍 Tacloban City, Leyte

🗓️ June 29, eve of the Tacloban grand fiesta

Tacloban's night-time Parade of Lights with illuminated floats and dance contingents winding through downtown streets to the Balyuan Amphitheater.

📍 Dipolog City, Zamboanga del Norte

🗓️ First week of June, culminating on the June 6 founding anniversary

Zamboanga del Norte's week-long founding anniversary thanksgiving, with a trade fair, concerts, cultural performing arts contests, a pageant and fireworks.

📍 Rosario, Batangas

🗓️ June 9 (town founding anniversary), with events the days before

Rosario sets a table hundreds of meters long with sinukmani (caramel-topped sticky rice cake) for the town to share, with street dancing and concerts.

📍 Aliaga (Barangay Bibiclat), Nueva Ecija

🗓️ June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist

Before dawn, devotees cover themselves in rice-field mud and dried banana leaves, then walk to the church for Mass. Asking for candles and a play on the saint's life follow.

📍 Basco, Batanes

🗓️ Week leading to Batanes Day, June 26

Batanes' founding-anniversary celebration, named after the vunung (food wrapped in kabaya leaves). Pageants, sports, Ivatan cultural shows and farm and fishery exhibits.

📍 San Juan City, Metro Manila – Second District

🗓️ June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist

San Juan's 'basaan' festival honors its patron with water dousing. Since 2025 the dousing is limited to a set zone on Pinaglabanan Road during set morning hours, alongside a parade and dance contest.

📍 Catarman, Northern Samar

🗓️ Late May to mid-June, ending near the June 19 founding anniversary

Northern Samar's month-long anniversary festival with a float parade, agri-tourism trade fair and a festival-of-festivals contest among the province's towns.