Adelaide Festivals & Events

Planning a vacation in Adelaide Australia? This lucky city will amaze you with its appetite for events and its great weather. Just wait till you see what festivals and events are on offer!

Start your tour with a visit to Adelaide Oval, the home of cricket in South Australia and the popular Skycity Adelaide. To find acclaimed wineries, tour the gorgeous Fleurieu Peninsula and Adelaide Hills.

How about the Clipsal 500 Adelaide? This is where GT, V8 and historic model auto racing roars and free music concerts rev up the racing fans!

Adelaide has festivals galore, an international kite festival, ANZAC Race Day and Carnival Cup among many others! Known as the largest annual folk festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Schutzenfest showcases German cultural heritage with music, dancing and—of course—some of the best beer in the world.

Speaking of music, everyone seems to love the Big Day Out Adelaide, when over 30,000 people come to hang out every year to hear the big names of the Australian and international music scene under the warm Aussie sun.

Another music festival, Womadelaide, devotes three days to the World of Music Arts and Dance, beckoning thousands to flock from all over the globe to enjoy the international artists across six outdoor stages.

For the arts aficionados, Adelaide's famed three-week Fringe Festival is a rich multi-arts experience where a range of events are enjoyed annually at various locations all over this pretty city.

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