Hampshire is set for another exciting year in 2024, with an array of large-scale events and festivals. Home to a host of food and music festivals, family fun events, and special anniversaries, you're sure to find plenty of exciting events to include Hampshire in your holiday plans. 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, the largest seaborne invasion ever, and one that changed the course of history. There will be a host of anniversary events across the region, both on the 6th June but also throughout the year at The D-Day Story in Portsmouth. Jane Austen House will also be celebrating its 75th anniversary as a museum before the county marks the 250th anniversary of Jane’s birth in 2025.
Grab your calendar and start planning your next visit to Hampshire, here are some of the most popular events happening across the county in 2024 - The Alresford Watercress Festival (19th May 2024), Basingstoke Festival (21st June - 7th July 2024), Farnborough International Airshow (22nd - 26th July 2024), Winchester Hat Fair (30th June - 1st July 2024), Beaulieu Supercar Weekend, Beaulieu (3rd - 4th August), Victorious Festival Portsmouth (23rd - 25th August 2024), International Kite Festival, Portsmouth (27th - 28th July 2024), New Forest & Hampshire Country Show, (30th July - 1st August 2024), Southampton International Boat Show (13th - 22nd September 2024), all filling the Hampshire calendar to bursting.
To find out what's on in Hampshire today or this weekend, explore our featured list below or use the 'what's on search box' above to narrow down your required date. Families on a budget can look out for the many free events (F) taking place, you'll also find plenty of fun activities for kids to do whether it's during the holidays or on a weekend break. Hampshire's fertile rural landscape means that food and drink play a big part in the county's event calendar with local produce championed and enjoyed through Farmers' Markets, beer festivals, celebrity visits, and plenty of tasting opportunities!
If you're travelling from outside the area for an event in Hampshire, there are numerous hotels and other accommodation options to suit your needs.
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Community
Whitchurch
Textiles Festival - 5th & 6th July.
In aid of Living Weaving Heritage at the Mill: 900621
FRIDAY:
• TALKS FROM SPECIAL GUESTS
• COLDHARBOUR VISIT
SATURDAY:
• CRAFT STALLS
• TABBY AND TWEED
BOTH DAYS:
• WORKSHOPS
• DEMONSTRATIONS
• PRODUCTION…
Festival
Winchester
Hat Fair is the UK’s longest continually running festival of outdoor arts. Founded in 1974 by Jonathan Kay, Hat Fair inspires and is inspired by the people, heritage and public spaces within the city of Winchester. The aim is to shine a light on the…
Festival
Portsmouth
Portsmouth Comic Con returns to the Guildhall for 2024.
Childrens Events
Winchester
The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!
Wise Owl Theatre bring the high-spirited and downright ludicrous tale of Mr. Toad to the stage.
With Toad Hall under…
Heritage & History
Lower Swanwick
As spring sweeps in we wake the Brickworks' Machinery from its winter slumber for the first of our grand steam events of 2024. We will be joined at this event by our resident traction engines.
Celebrate the start of the traditional brickmaking…
Outdoor Event / Activities
New Forest
Enjoy an open-air production of Pride and Prejudice on Tuesday 13th August, as Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Jane Austen's iconic novel with an evening of magical theatre in the Beaulieu grounds.
Step back in time over two hundred years and…
Theatre
Winchester
"Winston, this is our problem - I would pacify Hitler, you would provoke him."
"Yes Neville, that is our problem. A wolf in a cage you may pacify. A wolf on the prowl you must shoot!"
On the evening of 13th October 1939, six weeks after war has…
Outdoor Event / Activities
New Forest
Tickets are now on sale for BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair taking place in the stunning grounds of Beaulieu from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th May 2024.
What better way to inspire your gardening year ahead than by joining us in May for the return of…
Dance / Dancing
Winchester
Yorke Dance Project celebrates their 25th anniversary with a new programme honouring the company's connection to California and the legacies of three pioneering female choreographers - Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Bella Lewitzky. This powerful…
Festival
Newport
A day long Festival of Folk & Blues set in the stunning grounds of Wolverton Manor, Shorwell, Isle of Wight PO30 3JS.
From the successful launch in 2011, the family friendly festival has been gaining momentum with fantastic bands/artists each year…
Theatre
Winchester
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Oliver Gray. An evening of mystery, intrigue and things that go woof in the night.
Theatre
Winchester
From London's West End, this internationally acclaimed production celebrates the music of Neil Diamond.
From the hits he penned during his time in the Brill Building to the Jazz Singer and countless live concerts, Neil Diamond is a musical icon,…
Festivals
SANDOWN
A heady mix of country fair, pop festival and a vampire’s worst nightmare, this festival offers everything for the family!
Gardens
Selborne, Alton
The installation of work by local artist Jacqueline Amies has taken inspiration from the writings of Gilbert White (1720- 1793). Over the past year regular visits to The Wakes in Selborne have been made and time has been spent in the gardens…
Food
Whitchurch
Our popular Food Festival returns to the Silk Mill for another year on Saturday 7th September 2024.
Packed full of goodies from delicious, local suppliers.
Festival
Portsmouth
Victorious Festival returns for 2024 - bringing some of the biggest bands and artists to Southsea Common.
Festival
Southsea
The 31st Portsmouth International Kite Festival will take place on 27th & 28th July at Southsea Common.
Free Event
Hindhead
Discover a day of wellbeing and connection in the tranquil surroundings of Devil's Punch Bowl this May. In partnership with the National Trust this event is all about practical steps to boost your health and wellbeing.
Explore a range of stalls…
Heritage & History
Lower Swanwick
A jump back into yesteryear with Back in Time at The Brickworks Museum. Explore our unique Victorian factory and see the machinery under full steam. Enjoy our throwback to workers lives in the 1970s, and find out about vintage and retro British…
Theatre
Winchester
A full-scale production set in the murky Dark Ages where love, politics and witchcraft collide.
A warworn Macbeth is told by three sisters that he is fated to become King of Scotland so beginning a series of events that lead to the destruction of…