Events in Kotor
The upcoming dated calendar for Kotor and the Bay of Kotor — festivals, traditions and bay celebrations, with the next confirmed and expected dates.
Upcoming dates
The next confirmed and expected dates on the Kotor calendar — always verify with the organizer before you book.
July 20266
Theatre City Budva 2026 (Grad teatar)
Grad teatar turns Budva's medieval squares, fortress and beaches into open-air stages each summer for two months of theatre, concerts, literary evenings and exhibitions — one of the region's most prestigious cultural festivals.
Dubrovnik Summer Festival 2026
Croatia's flagship cultural festival fills Dubrovnik's Old Town for 47 days each summer with open-air theatre, classical concerts, opera, dance and folklore across the city's historic squares, fortresses and palaces.
Statehood Day (Dan državnosti)
July 13 is Montenegro's national day, recalling both the 1878 Berlin Congress recognition of independence and the 1941 anti-fascist uprising. It is a two-day public holiday at the height of the tourist season.
Fašinada Cup Regatta 2026
Montenegro's most prestigious sailing regatta, with crews gathering at Porto Montenegro in Tivat and racing through the Bay of Kotor around the islets off Perast. The 23rd edition runs over a long July weekend.
Fašinada — Our Lady of the Rocks (Perast)
Every July 22 at sunset a single-file procession of decorated boats sails from Perast to the man-made island of Gospa od Škrpjela, each dropping stones to reinforce the island — a 15th-century maritime tradition followed by a regatta the next morning.
Kotor International Summer Carnival 2026
Kotor's summer 'Feštanje' is a colourful international carnival in front of and inside the medieval Old Town, with masked groups from Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Italy and beyond parading, dancing and partying by Boka Bay.
December 20262
Boka Marathon 2026
The Bay of Kotor's signature road race, run on a fast, flat coastal route from Tivat that finishes inside Kotor's UNESCO-listed Old Town. Distances range from the full marathon and half down to a 10 km, 5 km and a Boka Mile fun run.
Catholic Christmas in the Bay of Kotor
December 25 is recognised in Kotor's historically Catholic communities, where Christmas Eve midnight Mass at the Cathedral of St Tryphon and lit Old Town streets give the bay a festive feel, even though the national holiday is Orthodox Christmas in January.
January 20272
New Year's Holiday (Nova godina)
January 1 and 2 are Montenegro's biggest secular public holidays. Both days are non-working, with town squares hosting open-air concerts and fireworks on New Year's Eve and a quiet, mostly-closed pair of days after.
Orthodox Christmas (Božić)
Montenegro's Serbian-Orthodox majority celebrates Christmas on the Julian calendar. Badnji dan (Christmas Eve, Jan 6) sees the ceremonial badnjak oak branch burned outside churches, and Christmas Day, January 7, is a national public holiday.
February 20272
St Tryphon's Day & the Winter Carnival
Kotor's patron saint is honoured on 3 February with a solemn feast and the Boka Navy's centuries-old Kolo circle dance outside St Tryphon Cathedral, woven into the masks and parades of the town's winter carnival.
Kotor Winter Carnival 2027 (Kotorski karneval)
Kotor's centuries-old winter carnival, rooted in its Venetian past, fills the Old Town for weeks with masquerade balls, children's costume events and a grand closing parade and bonfire by Boka Bay.
