Festivals in the Philippines in March

📍 Bangued, Abra

🗓️ Early March (around Mar 6–9), Abra's founding anniversary week

Abra's bamboo festival: the closing grand parade has bamboo floats from all 27 towns, with trade fairs and cultural shows around the Capitol in Bangued.

📍 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.

📍 Santa Cruz, Laguna

🗓️ About one week in mid-to-late March

Laguna's 'mother of all festivals' (Ani ng Laguna): float and street-dance parades, an agri-trade fair, free produce giveaways, sports and concerts at the provincial sports complex.

📍 Davao City, Davao del Sur

🗓️ March 1–16, ending on the March 16 founding anniversary

Davao City's founding anniversary: two weeks of concerts, heritage walks, the Mutya ng Dabaw pageant, a fair at Magsaysay Park and the Parada Dabawenyo.

📍 San Fernando City, La Union

🗓️ Early March, around La Union's founding day (March 2)

La Union's provincial anniversary festival, with the SILAW street-dance showdown, open concerts and town showcases in San Fernando.

📍 Libertad, Antique

🗓️ Second week of March

Libertad's celebration of its banig (woven mat) industry, with a street dance competition in mat-inspired costumes, a bariw weaving contest, an agri-trade fair and the town fiesta masses.

📍 Nabunturan, Davao de Oro

🗓️ Early March, at the provincial capitol

Davao de Oro's gold festival ("bulawan" means gold), held at the capitol grounds in Nabunturan, featuring the Binibining Davao de Oro pageant.

📍 Limasawa, Southern Leyte

🗓️ March 31

Commemoration of the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Easter Sunday 1521, held on Limasawa Island with a Mass and lantern rites; a provincial special holiday.

📍 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.

📍 Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro

🗓️ Around March 21, Calapan's founding anniversary

Calapan's official festival, from 'kalap' (to gather): street dancing about farming, fishing and forest gathering, a grand parade, trade fairs and a bangkathon outrigger race.

📍 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.

📍 Canlaon City, Negros Oriental

🗓️ March 19, feast of St. Joseph

Canlaon's thanksgiving-through-dance for its patron St. Joseph: dancers carry the vegetables and crops of this upland farming city at the foot of Kanlaon Volcano.

📍 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.

📍 Tabaco City, Albay

🗓️ Third week of March, ending on Tabaco's founding anniversary

Week-long Tabaco City festival showing the city's tabak (bolo) and cutlery-making industry, with street dancing and trade exhibits.

📍 Candon City, Ilocos Sur

🗓️ Last week of March, with the city fiesta and Cry of Candon anniversary

Candon's week-long tobacco festival with street dancing, the Miss Tobacco Philippines pageant and a giant Candon calamay rice cake.

📍 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.

📍 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.

📍 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.