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NYC Summer Festivals

Summer in New York City is from Memorial Day Weekend in May to Labor Day in September. The season peaks right around the Fourth of July.

Si te quieres divertir, con encanto y con primor
Sólo tienes que vivir un verano en Nueva York”

“Un Verano en Nueva York,” Tito Enriquez for El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico (1975)

Summer Festivals in NYC

These are the big festivals and parades of a typical summer in New York City.

May

  • Big Salsa Festival (Memorial Day Weekend)
  • 152nd St Cultural Festival (Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend)
  • Memorial Day Weekend
  • Memorial Day (Last Monday of May)

June

  • SummerStage NYC
  • 116th St Festival (2nd Saturday in June)
  • New York Salsa Festival (2nd Saturday in June)
  • National Puerto Rican Day Parade (2nd Sunday in June)
  • Portugal Day Festival (Friday-Sunday near June 10)
  • Portugal Day (June 10)
  • Museum Mile Festival (2nd Tuesday in June)
  • Father’s Day (3rd Sunday in June)
  • Juneteenth (June 19)
  • Summer Solstice Midsummer (June 20 or 21)
  • Coney Island Mermaid Parade (Saturday closest to the solstice)
  • Paul Winter Summer Solstice Celebration (Saturday around the solstice)
  • NYC Pride Parade and Festival (Last week of June)
  • Stonewall Riots Commemoration (June 28)

July

  • SummerStage NYC
  • Lincoln Center Festival
  • U.S. Independence Day (July 4)
  • Venezuelan Independence Day (July 5)
  • Argentine Independence Day (July 9)
  • International Puppet Fringe Festival (Around 2nd Friday of July)
  • Manhattanhenge (July 11-12)
  • Bastille Day, the French national celebration (July 14)
  • Colombian Independence Day (July 20)
  • Colombian Parade (Sunday around July 20)
  • NYC Restaurant Week (Usually last week of July)
  • Dominican Film Festival (Usually last week of July)
  • Brasil Summerfest (Last week of July – first week of August)
  • Peruvian Independence Day (July 28)
  • Peruvian Parade and Street Fair (Last Sunday of July)

August

  • SummerStage NYC
  • Lincoln Center Out of Doors
  • Summer Streets street fair (First three Saturdays of August)
  • National Dominican Day Parade (2nd Sunday of August)
  • Battery Dance Festival (10 days around 3rd Friday of August)
  • Harlem Week (2020 3rd Sunday of August for one week)
  • Ecuadorian Festival (3rd Sunday of August)
  • US Open Tennis Grand Slam (Last Monday of August for two weeks)

September

  • Brazilian Day (Sunday of Labor Day Weekend)
  • Labor Day Weekend
  • Labor Day (First Monday in September)
  • West Indian Day Parade Caribbean Carnival (Labor Day)
Summer at Coney Island (Kmiragaya/Dreamstime)
Summer on the beach in front of Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn (Kmiragaya/Dreamstime)
Celebrations

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