Calendar of Events
Peru celebrates around 3000 typical festivals every year, in which each region or department tends to have a typical traditional festival that makes it unique to each region, so we will now present the most important festivals in Peru and which are celebrated in more regions:
- 1st of January – 1st of February: Marinera Festival
Place: Trujillo, La Libertad - 6th January: Three Wise Men
Place: Ollantaytambo, Cuzco - From February 1st to 15th: Virgen de la Candelaria
Place: Puno, Lake Titicaca - 7 weeks before Easter: Carnival
Place: Cusco, most of Peru - 24th to 25th of February International Adventure Sports Festival
Place: Lima - First week of March: Fiesta de la Vendimia / International Grape Harvest Festival
Place: Ica, about 300 km south of Lima - The week before Easter: Semana Santa (Holy Week)
Place: Ayacucho, Cusco and most places in Peru - The Monday before Easter, Easter Monday: Señor de los Temblores (Lord of the Tremors)
Place: Cusco - Sunday before Qoyullur Rit’i, or 50 days after Easter Sunday: Santísima Cruz del Señor de Choquekillca (The Holy Cross of the Lord of Choquekillca)
Place: Ollantaytambo, Cusco - At the end of May or beginning of June, coincides with the full moon: Qoyllur Rit’i
Place: Ausangate - 60 days after Easter Sunday: Corpus Christi
Place: Cusco and most of Peru - 3rd May: Feast of the Cross
Place: Cusco, Lima, Ica, the rest of Peru - 4th and 5th of May: Nazca Tourism Week
Nazca Tourism Week Festival Peru
Place: Nazca, Ica - From 23 to 25 June: San Juan
Place: Peruvian Amazon - 24-June: Inti Raymi
Place: Cusco - 16th of July: Virgen del Carmen
Place: In most places in Peru, especially in Paucartambo - July 28th: Independence Day
Place: All over Peru - August 1st – 7th: Cruz de Chalpon
Place: Motupe, Lambayeque - 15-August: Virgen Asunta
Place: Qoya and Calca - 1st – 30th of September: International Spring Festival
Place: Trujillo, La Libertad - First two weeks of September: Mistura culinary Festival
Place: Lima - 8 September: Virgen de Navidad
Place: Chinchero, Other small towns in Cusco - October 18- 28: El Señor de los Milagros (The Lord of Miracles)
Where: Lima - October 31st and November 1st: All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day
Place: Most of Peru - First week of November: Puno Week
Place: Puno, Lake Titicaca - 7 to 10 December: Immaculate Conception
Place: Arequipa the Colca Valley - 24th and 25th December: Christmas
Place: Most of Peru - 31st December, 1st January: New Year’s Day
Place: Most of Peru
