Discover our weekly selection of must-attend festivals across France, organised by département and by weekend. Concerts, music festivals, fairs, traditional celebrations, food festivals or cultural gatherings: our editorial team browses programmes from across the country to bring you the best events near you.
From the Tarasque to the Villa Noailles: Provence's big festival weekend of June 27-28
The Tarasque festival in Tarascon, Design Parade in Hyères, La Crème Festival in Villefranche: eleven very real events for the weekend of June 27-28 in Provence.
Last weekend of June in Normandy: street arts, jazz and electro nights from Rouen to the Cotentin
From Viva Cité in Sotteville-lès-Rouen to the four nights of Archéo Jazz near Rouen, our pick of eleven Norman highlights for this Saturday June 27 and Sunday June 28.
Last weekend of June in Northern France: Beauvais in armour, Corbie in the streets
From the Jeanne Hachette festival in Beauvais to the street arts of Corbie, eleven festivals for the June 27-28 weekend in Northern France.
Corsica, weekend of June 27: an Ajaccio trail and a Nonza village feast
The final stretch of the Ajaccio Imperial City Trail and the patron-saint feast of Nonza: a quiet but authentic Corsican Saturday, rounded off by Bonifacio's polyphony.
Summer's first real weekend: eleven festivals to roam France over June 27-28
From Solidays at the Longchamp racecourse to Europe's biggest mineral show in Alsace, eleven highlights to live the first great festival weekend of summer, region by region.
Brittany this weekend, June 27-28: rock in Trélivan, medieval Fougères and tango in Port-Louis
From the big rock of Bobital to the medieval ramparts of Fougères, by way of Port-Louis tango and the Breton language in Langonnet, eleven outings to close out June in style.
Solstice in Occitanie: Tarbes féria, Montpellier dance and Occitan fires, June 20
From the dance of Montpellier Danse to the Saint-Jean fires of Total Festum, twelve Occitanie picks for the solstice weekend, between arenas, song and the Tarbes féria.
Solstice in New Aquitaine: féria, sea shanties and Fête de la Musique for the weekend of June 20
From the sea shanties of La Rochelle to the féria of Aire-sur-l'Adour, and Fête de la Musique everywhere, ten ways to celebrate the solstice in New Aquitaine.
Solstice in the Grand Est: jazz in Wolfisheim, Haut-Rhin bonfires and Munster in Gérardmer
From Wolfi Jazz at Fort Kléber to the Saint John's bonfires on the Haut-Rhin ridges, eleven Grand Est picks for solstice weekend, between music, medieval pageantry and terroir.
Fête de la Musique around Paris: where to spend the June 20-21 solstice weekend
From the Fête de la Musique filling all of Paris to the Saint-Denis Festival in the royal basilica, eleven ways to celebrate the Paris-region solstice this weekend.
Solstice in Annecy, transhumance in the Vercors: the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes weekend
The Annecy animation film festival opens its doors and the flocks climb to the Vercors pastures: eleven outings for the solstice weekend of June 20-21.
Music-festival weekend in the Pays de la Loire: Hellfest closes in Clisson as summer begins
From Hellfest's metal deluge in Clisson to the Fête de la Musique in the streets of Nantes, eleven Loire-region picks for the weekend of June 20-21.
This section is updated every week to help you discover festivals across France, from the biggest national events to local hidden gems carefully selected by our editorial team. For more in-depth information, browse our detailed festival pages.