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Melbourne’s event calendar is jam-packed all year round. The different seasons bring different events, so no matter what time of year you come to Melbourne, there will always be something unique and exciting happening.

If you’re looking at what’s on, the upcoming events calendar includes plenty of options including multicultural festivals, parades, sporting tournaments and cultural events.

What’s On Melbourne This Weekend & Upcoming 2023/2024 Events Calendar




So whether you love sports or indulging in something a little different, Melbourne offers every type of event for its millions of visitors each year.

Australians love watching sport and every year, the city celebrates many major sporting including the famous Australian Open, international cricket matches, the Spring Racing Carnival and the Formula One Grand Prix. The city has a number of excellent cricket and football grounds, stadiums and indoor stadiums.

Melbourne also hosts a range of festivals including food and wine festivals, music festivals and cultural and heritage festivals. Visitors, locals and culinary experts from all over the world come here to participate in the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. This popular event features award-winning vintages from some of Australia’s major wine regions.

Music lovers will be happy to know that Melbourne offers a wide choice of theatre shows, concerts and outdoor entertainment. Every year, the city celebrates the Jazz and Blues festival, the Harvest Picnic at Hanging Rock as well as country music festivals and live concerts.

If you’re wondering what’s on this weekend, just head into the city and you are sure to find a local community event, blockbuster theatre shows, art exhibit or live music concert. The event calendar changes weekly, so make sure you don’t miss out!



Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

Steampacket Gardens, Geelong, VIC
26 January 2024 to 28 January 2024

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race returns better than ever in 2024 as the world’s cycling elite journey to Geelong and the Surf Coast for Australia’s greatest weekend of cycling. Inspired by Europe’s prestigious one...

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5k Foam Fest

5k Foam Fest

Wandin Park Estate, Wandin North, VIC
27 January 2024

The 5K Foam Fest is a one-of-a-kind Obstacle Course-based Fun Run. Join in for over 22 obstacles, including the world’s largest inflatable waterslide, mud pits and 2.5 MILLION cubic feet of foam! 5k Foam Fest...

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Sustainable Living Festival

Sustainable Living Festival

Melbourne CBD, Melbourne, VIC
01 February 2024 to 29 February 2024

The iconic Sustainable Living Festival runs for four weeks in February and promotes solutions to global warming by promoting sustainable living practices. The largest and longest-running festival of its kind aims to...

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Melbourne To Warrnambool Classic

Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic

Avalon Airport, Lara, VIC
TBA - Feb 2024

The historic Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic is a cycling race that traverses Victoria’s southwest region through picturesque landscapes and difficult terrain. The Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic was founded in...

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

Multiple Locations, Melbourne, VIC
10 February 2024

2024 is the year of the Dragon, starting from February 10th, 2024 (Chinese Lunar New Year Day) and lasting until January 28th, 2025. If you were born in 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012…, your Chinese zodiac sign is...

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St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

St Jerome’s Laneway Festival

The Park, Flemington, VIC
TBA - February 2024

What started as a tiny indie music event in the laneways of Melbourne, St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, has become one of Australia’s most loved music festivals. The Laneway Festival started in Melbourne in...

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Care & Ageing Well Expo

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf , VIC
10 February 2024 to 11 February 2024

Are you ready to begin preparing for your future, or are you caring for an ageing loved one? Then the Melbourne Care & Ageing Well Expo is the perfect place to begin! The Expo is your chance to view and learn about...

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St Kilda Festival

St Kilda Festival

St. Kilda Beach, St Kilda, VIC
TBA - February 2024

St. Kilda Festival is an event held in Melbourne and whose culmination is a summer-style celebration of arts and music along the gorgeous St Kilda foreshore. Part and parcel of Melbourne’s timeless tradition, the...

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Lonsdale Street Festival

Lonsdale Street Festival

CBD, Melbourne, VIC
TBA - February 2024

For the Greek Community living in Australia, the Lonsdale Street Festival (formerly Antipodes Festival) is a must-attend event that celebrates Greece’s rich culture and food. The festival brings together Greek...

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Wedding Event Expo

The Wedding & Event Expo

Cranbourne Turf Club, Cranbourne, VIC
TBA - February 2024

Planning an event? Then the Melbourne Wedding and Event Expo is an occasion you can’t afford to miss. Find the perfect suppliers for your special day in one stunning and convenient location- the Cranbourne Turf...

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Melbourne Fashion Festival

Melbourne Fashion Festival

Various venues around Melbourne, Docklands, VIC
TBA - March 2024

When autumn hits the city, Melbourne celebrates the fashion festival of the season also known as the Melbourne Fashion Festival.

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Sydney Road Street Party

Sydney Road Street Party

Sydney Road, Brunswick, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Sydney Road Street Party is a cultural festival and one of the largest street-based festivals in Melbourne. Held as part of the Brunswick Music Festival, which runs for nine days, the Sydney Road Street Party is a...

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Moomba Festival

Moomba Festival

Alexandra Gardens & Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, VIC
08 March 2024 to 11 March 2024

Melbournians come together yearly to share, cheer and spread the festive spirit for the Moomba Festival. After all, Moomba has been celebrated in Melbourne for over half a century and is held every Labour Day long...

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Holi Festival Melbourne

Holi Festival Melbourne

Ron Barassi Snr Park, Docklands, VIC
TBA - March 2024

Holi is a popular Hindu Festival of Colours celebrated across India. It celebrates the triumph of good over evil and the changing of the seasons from winter to spring. Back home, Holi is an eventful affair. People from...

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Labour Day

Labour Day

All The State, Melbourne, VIC
11 March 2024

Labour Day is a public holiday in Victoria that will be observed on the 11th of March 2024. Labour Day reflects the social and political movement in the 1850s to secure an 8-hour working day for all Australians. Labour...

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Melbourne Ukulele Festival

Melbourne Ukulele Festival

Northcote Town Hall, Northcote, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Melbourne Ukulele Festival is a fun event where music lovers come together to listen, play and sing along to everything involving the ukulele! The festival is held at the Northcote Town Hall, High Street Northcote...

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Warrandyte Festival

Warrandyte Festival

Stiggants Reserve, Warrandyte, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Warrandyte Festival has been a staple of this country town since 1977! Come on to Warrandyte to celebrate this wonderful festival filled with food, drinks, live music, a parade, and a film festival. Warrandyte...

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Herald Sun / Transurban Run For The Kids

Herald Sun / Transurban Run For The Kids

Marvel Stadium, Docklands, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Herald-Sun / Transurban Run for the Kids is one of the great local events in Melbourne aimed at fundraising for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. Participants can choose to walk or run the 15km...

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The Melbourne Fair

The Melbourne Fair

Caulfield Racecourse, Caulfield East, VIC
TBA - March 2024

Seasoned collectors, interior stylists and history buffs will converge at Melbourne’s largest fair, showcasing an exclusive range of antiques, jewellery, couture, arts and some of the country’s most...

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Melbourne Pedalthon

Below the Belt Pedalthon Melbourne

Sandown International Motor Raceway, Springvale, VIC
TBA - March 2024

We’re delighted to welcome the Melbourne Pedalthon back at Sandown Racecourse, ready for you to ride and help those living with below the belt (kidney, bladder, testicular, penile and prostate) cancers. Whether you’re...

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Australian Grand Prix

Australian Grand Prix

Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Albert Park, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Australian Grand Prix is among the largest and most popular of all the events held in Melbourne. People from all over the world come here to watch the Grand Prix, with this event increasing visitors to Melbourne and...

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne, VIC
27 March 2024 to 21 April 2024

If you love stand-up comedy or like to laugh, come to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to witness Australia’s largest comedy festival and the world’s third-largest festival. Melbourne has hosted...

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Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Carlton, VIC
TBA - March 2024

The Southern Hemisphere’s largest horticultural event returns to Carlton Gardens and the world heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building. Every year, thousands of visitors flock to Melbourne to witness blooming gardens...

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Good Friday

Good Friday

All over Australia, Melbourne, VIC
29 March 2024

Good Friday kicks off the Australian Easter celebrations and will next be observed on Friday, the 29th of March 2024. Good Friday is a public holiday with almost all shops and stores closing and people spending the day...

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Easter Saturday

Easter Saturday

All over Australia, Melbourne, VIC
30 March 2024

Easter Saturday is part of the Easter celebrations and will be observed on the 30th of March 2024. Easter Saturday follows Good Friday and is part of a Christian festival that, according to tradition, celebrates the...

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Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday

All over Australia, Melbourne, VIC
31 March 2024

Easter Sunday is part of the Easter celebrations and will be observed on the 31st of March 2024. Easter Sunday is the biggest day of this four-holiday weekend as it is a public holiday when families and friends join to...

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Easter Monday

Easter Monday

All over Australia, Melbourne, VIC
01 April 2024

Easter Monday is a public holiday in Australia and will be observed on the 1st of April 2024. Easter Monday follows Easter Sunday, a Christian festival that, according to tradition, celebrates the resurrection of Jesus...

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Bells Beach Surfing Classic

Rip Curl Pro

Bells Beach, Torquay, VIC
04 April 2024 to 14 April 2024

The Rip Curl Pro (formerly the Bells Beach Surf Classic) is held annually in Victoria and is a professional surfing competition that attracts visitors to Bells Beach every Easter. Commonly known as the “Rip Curl...

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Carlton Italian Festa

Carlton Italian Festa

Piazza Italia, Carlton, VIC
TBA - April 2024

The Carlton Italian Festa, also known as La Dolce Italia or the Lygon Street Fiesta, is a melting pot that showcases Italy’s diverse culture in Melbourne. The celebration of Italy’s culture brings together...

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One Fine Day Wedding Fair

One Fine Day Wedding Fair

Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, VIC
TBA - April 2024

One Fine Day is a refreshing alternative to the traditional bridal fair; showcasing a handpicked collection of 100 sought after vendors in the wedding field. Not only is One Fine Day the perfect outlet for creative...

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Anzac Day

Anzac Day

Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, VIC
25 April 2024

Anzac Day is an important special community event celebrated in Australia on April 25. Millions of Australians commemorate the anniversary of the first significant military pairing of Australian and New Zealand forces...

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Afl Anzac Day

AFL ANZAC Day

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Richmond, VIC
25 April 2024

Essendon vs Collingwood have the biggest rivalry in AFL history, and the time has come again for the massive AFL ANZAC Day clash! In 2024, the game will be held on the 25th of April at the famous Melbourne Cricket...

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Run the Tan

Pillars of Wisdom, Melbourne, VIC
TBA - April 2024

Run the Tan is an exciting showcase running festival featuring five key events that take on the challenging 3.8 km course. A must-do event for elite athletes, recreational runners, schools, families and spectators...

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Melbourne Writers Festival

Melbourne Writers Festival

Multiple venues close to the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
04 May 2023 to 07 May 2023

The Melbourne Writers Festival is another cultural event catering to writers and readers; that includes a diverse schedule of educational programs, workshops, interactive sessions and entertainment options for all...

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South African Film Festival

South African Film Festival

Classic Cinema, Elsternwick, VIC
TBA - May 2024

The South African Film Festival is proud to showcase a diverse range of films made by some of the most promising filmmakers in South Africa who have achieved recognition both locally and internationally. Last...

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Meguiars Motorex

Meguiars MotorEx

Melbourne Showgrounds, Ascot Vale, VIC
TBA - May 2024

Meguiar’s MotorEx is the largest and most prestigious car show of its kind in Australia. Each year Meguiar’s MotorEx attracts Australia’s best custom and modified cars, which travel from all over the...

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Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Melbourne International Animation Festival

ACMI, Melbourne, VIC
TBA - May 2024

The Melbourne International Animation Festival is a forum that brings together animators from all over the world. These animation works are selected from recent and historical releases’ creme de la creme. The...

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Williamstown Wedding Expo

Williamstown Wedding Expo

Williamstown Town Hall, Williamstown, VIC
TBA - May 2024

Planning your perfect wedding can be expensive and your wedding budget is essential, so they have created this very special wedding expo just for you. By attending the Affordable Weddings Expo, you can have your perfect...

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Mornington Wedding Expo

Mornington Racecourse, Mornington , VIC
TBA - May 2024

Couples can find everything they need at the Mornington Wedding Expo. From photographers and cake designers to DJs and celebrants, the Mornington Peninsula’s best wedding service providers will be there, ready to help...

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Good Food & Wine Festival

Good Food & Wine Festival

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, VIC
TBA - May 2024

Experience a journey of good food and wine at Melbourne’s internationally acclaimed Good Food & Wine Festival. Sommeliers, winemakers and chefs from Australia come here to showcase their best harvests and...

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