Festivals in Greece: Month-by-Month Calendar with 2026 and 2027 Dates

Most visitors time a Greece trip around the weather. The ones who come home with the best stories time it around a date: the night Patras burns its carnival king in the harbour, the Holy Saturday morning when Corfu Town throws clay pots off its balconies, the August 15 panigyri when a mountain village feeds anyone who walks in.

The Greek calendar has two layers. The Orthodox year sets the big fixed and moveable feasts (Epiphany, Carnival, Clean Monday, Easter, the Assumption), and an older layer of harvest, wine and seasonal celebration sits underneath it. On top of both, summer adds the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the August Full Moon openings at archaeological sites, and a music festival season that now runs from June to September. Below you will find the exact dates for 2026 and 2027, then every month in order: national events, the regional festivals worth travelling for, and the village celebrations most guides never mention.

I have spent most of these feasts somewhere in Greece, and the team behind this site lives the calendar year-round in Athens, the Peloponnese, Crete and the north. For the single biggest event of the year, read our Greek Easter guide; for the customs behind everything here, see Greek customs and traditions.

Festival Dates for 2026 and 2027

Greece's religious calendar follows Orthodox Easter, which moves every year, so Carnival, Clean Monday and Holy Spirit Monday move with it. Fixed-date feasts stay put. Here is what to put in your diary.

• Epiphany: 6 January 2026 and 6 January 2027 (Blessing of the Waters at every harbour)
• Tsiknopempti (Smoky Thursday): 12 February 2026; 4 March 2027
• Patras Carnival Grand Parade: Sunday 22 February 2026; Sunday 14 March 2027
• Clean Monday: 23 February 2026; 15 March 2027
• Independence Day: 25 March, every year
• Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday: 12 April 2026; 2 May 2027 (Good Friday 30 April 2027)
• May Day: 1 May, every year
• Holy Spirit Monday: 1 June 2026; 21 June 2027 (a long weekend, and ferries fill up)
• Athens Epidaurus Festival: June to late August or September each year
• Assumption of the Virgin (Dekapentavgoustos): 15 August, every year
• August Full Moon: 28 August 2026; 17 August 2027 (the culture ministry confirms the night and the sites each summer)
• Ohi Day: 28 October, every year
• Polytechnic anniversary: 17 November, every year
• Athens Marathon: second Sunday of November (8 November 2026)
• Christmas and New Year: 25 December and 1 January

January

Epiphany / Theophania (January 6)

The Feast of the Epiphany marks the baptism of Christ and the end of the twelve days of Christmas. Its defining ritual is the Blessing of the Waters: a priest blesses a body of water by throwing a cross into it, and young men dive in to retrieve it. The one who returns the cross to the priest receives a blessing believed to carry good fortune for the year.

This happens at harbours, rivers, and lakes across Greece simultaneously — in Athens at Piraeus harbour, in Thessaloniki at the port, in Hydra and Spetses in dramatic waterfront settings. In some island communities, the diver retrieves the cross in genuinely cold winter water to considerable applause.

Epiphany also marks the traditional end of the kallikantzari (Christmas goblins) period — the twelve days of Christmas during which underground demons were said to roam. The priest's blessing drives them back below.

Our Greek Epiphany guide covers where to watch the cross dive and what happens on the eve.

Ragoutsaria, Kastoria (6 to 8 January): The north does Epiphany its own way. In Kastoria, brass bands and masked groups take over the streets for three days straight after the Blessing of the Waters, a pre-Christian winter masquerade that the town treats as its real carnival. Our Kastoria travel guide has where to stay by the lake.

Gynaikokratia (8 January): In villages around Serres, Kilkis and Xanthi, the women take over the kafeneio for the day and the men stay home with the housework. It started as a midwives' celebration, and visitors are welcome in the squares.

February–March

Apokries: The Greek Carnival (February–March)

Apokries means "away from meat", and it is the three-week carnival season that ends the eating year before the 40 days of Lent. Because it is tied to Orthodox Easter, the dates move every year. In 2026 the season opened on 1 February and ended on 22 February; in 2027 it runs from Sunday 21 February to Sunday 14 March, with Clean Monday on 15 March.

The three weeks each have a name. The first, Profoni, announces the season; the second, Kreatini, is the last week for meat and peaks with Tsiknopempti; the third, Tyrini, allows cheese, eggs and dairy but no meat, and ends with the big carnival weekend. Children dress up in costume for the whole period, adults save it for the final Saturday and Sunday, and the parties in Patras, Xanthi, Rethymno and Skyros are the reason to travel.

Tsiknopempti (Smoky Thursday): The Thursday of meat week, eleven days before Clean Monday (12 February 2026, 4 March 2027). Greeks grill vast quantities of meat in a final feast before the Lenten fast. Tavernas overflow, the smell of charcoal fills city streets, and in Athens the tavernas of Plaka and Psyrri are booked out. Reserve a table if you want to eat out that night.

Patras Carnival: 2027 Dates, Parades and How to Go

The Patras Carnival is the largest in Greece and one of the biggest in Europe, running since at least 1829, when a masked ball in a merchant's house started the tradition. It is not a single parade but a season: it opens in mid-January with the official proclamation in the city centre and builds for weeks through street parties, masked balls and children's events.

• The Treasure Hunt: Teams of friends in matching costumes, thousands of people in all, compete in a city-wide game of clues and tasks over the final weeks. The teams then march in the parades.
• The Bourboulia: Masked balls at the neoclassical Apollon Theatre, where women in black domino masks choose their dance partners, a custom going back to the 19th century.
• The Children's Carnival: A whole parade for schoolchildren and families in the last weeks, the easiest part to enjoy with young kids.
• The Night Parade (Saturday 13 March 2027): Carnival groups march through the centre with lights, music and dancing late into the night.
• The Grand Parade (Sunday 14 March 2027): The main event, from midday: satirical floats mocking politicians and celebrities, tens of thousands of costumed participants and huge crowds lining the route.
• The Burning of the King (Sunday night): The carnival king float is set alight at the harbour pier at midnight, followed by fireworks over the Gulf of Patras.

Patras is about two and a half hours from Athens by car or KTEL bus, so a day trip for the Grand Parade is possible, but staying the weekend gets you the night parade and the burning of the king. Rooms in the city fill months ahead for carnival weekend, so book as early as you can. In 2026, the Grand Parade was held on 22 February.

Other Carnivals Around Greece

Corfu Carnival: With strong Venetian influence, Corfu's carnival is more theatrical and aristocratic in character than Patras's — elaborate costumes, formal processions, and the burning of King Carnival in a ceremony that incorporates elements of Corfiot tradition going back to the Venetian period.

Athens Carnival: Athens has no single big parade. Instead, the carnival happens in Plaka and the old streets below the Acropolis, where children in costume, street musicians and bands fill the squares on the last weekend, with smaller events in Metaxourgio and other neighbourhoods. It is the easy option if you are in the city anyway, and Tsiknopempti in Plaka is the night to be there.

Galaxidi Flour War: In the coastal town of Galaxidi in Fokida, Clean Monday is celebrated with a flour war — participants throw coloured flour at each other through the streets. A genuinely anarchic and photogenic event with roots in the maritime culture of the town.

Xanthi Carnival: The biggest in northern Greece, built around the Thracian Folklore Festival, with folk groups from across Thrace in the old town before the final parade and the burning of the effigy. See our Xanthi travel guide.

Rethymno Carnival: Crete's largest, with a treasure hunt through the Venetian old town in the weeks before and a full parade on the last Sunday. Our Rethymno travel guide covers the town.

Skyros goat dance: On the last weekends of carnival, men dressed as the geros wear goat-skin capes and dozens of goat bells and run through the alleys of Chora with the korela, a man dressed as a woman. It is loud, physical and unlike anything else in Greece. Read our Skyros travel guide before you go; rooms are few.

Naousa Boules (Imathia): Masked boules and genitsaroi dance through Naousa in Macedonia on carnival Sunday and Clean Monday, in a custom tied to the town's resistance during the Ottoman period. Do not confuse it with Naoussa on Paros, which holds its own smaller carnival.

Clean Monday — Kathari Deftera (February/March)

The first day of Lent is a public holiday and one of Greece's most pleasant national celebrations. Families go to parks and the countryside for picnics, flying kites. The traditional Clean Monday foods are lagana (unleavened flatbread), olives, taramasalata, halvas, and fresh shellfish. In Athens, Philopappos Hill fills with kite-flyers and picnickers. Many urban tavernas serve the full Clean Monday menu.

The Clean Monday table is mostly plant-based but includes taramasalata and shellfish, so check our guide to vegan and vegetarian Greek food for what a fasting meal does and does not include.

Independence Day (March 25)

A double holiday: the start of the 1821 War of Independence and the Annunciation. Athens holds a military parade along Vasilissis Amalias past Syntagma, schoolchildren march in every town, and the whole country eats fried salt cod with skordalia garlic sauce for lunch, one of only two days in Lent when fish is allowed (the other is Palm Sunday). Museums and archaeological sites are closed, so plan sightseeing for the day before or after.

April (Orthodox Easter Season)

Greek Easter — Pascha

The most important event in the Greek cultural year, covered in full in the Greek Easter guide. In 2026, Greek Orthodox Easter falls on Sunday, April 12.

Holy Week (the week before Easter) is the most atmospherically intense period in Greece — Good Friday Epitaphios processions through every town and village, the midnight Anastasi service on Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday lamb on the spit. The best places to experience it: Patmos, Corfu, Hydra, Arachova, Leonidio.

Two places do it unlike anywhere else. In Corfu, Holy Saturday morning ends with the botides: at the bell, people throw large clay pots full of water from the balconies of the old town to smash in the streets below. On Hydra, the Good Friday Epitaphios at Kamini is carried into the sea, with the bearers wading out waist-deep. In 2027, Orthodox Easter is late, on 2 May, so many island routes will already be running more frequent sailings.

At midnight on Holy Saturday the greeting is Christos Anesti, answered with Alithos Anesti; both are in our Greek phrases guide with pronunciation, alongside the other wishes you will hear through the festival year.

May

May Day — Protomagia (May 1)

A public holiday combining socialist tradition with an ancient spring celebration. The defining custom is the making of flower wreaths (May wreaths — Magiata): families go to the countryside to gather wildflowers and weave them into wreaths, which are hung on doors and left to dry until midsummer. The wreaths are burned on the eve of St John's Day (June 23) in bonfires.

In Athens, May Day also involves trade union marches in the city centre — a tradition that brings significant numbers of demonstrators to Syntagma Square.

Anastenaria Fire-Walking (May 21)

On the feast of Saints Constantine and Helen, descendants of refugees from Eastern Thrace dance barefoot across glowing embers holding icons of the two saints, in Agia Eleni near Serres and in Langadas near Thessaloniki. It is a religious ritual, not a show: watch quietly, stay back from the fire, and ask before photographing anyone. Thessaloniki is the easy base; our things to do in Thessaloniki guide covers the city.

Summer Festival Season (June–August)

Athens Epidaurus Festival (June–September)

The most prestigious cultural event in Greece and one of the most important arts festivals in Europe. Running since 1955, the Athens Epidaurus Festival presents theatre, opera, dance, and music at two extraordinary ancient venues and multiple modern ones throughout Athens.

The tradition goes back to the Dionysia, the Athenian festival of Dionysus where tragedy was born; see our guide to the 12 Olympian gods for the god behind it.

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus: A Roman-era amphitheatre at the foot of the Acropolis, with the floodlit Parthenon visible above and perfect acoustics. The setting alone — stone seats, pine-scented night air, the ancient walls lit against the sky — makes almost any performance memorable.

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus: Built in the fourth century BC with a capacity of 12,000 and acoustics so precise that a coin dropped at the stage can be heard from the top row. Ancient Greek tragedies and comedies performed here are the closest experience available to what Greek theatre was actually designed to be. The venue is two hours from Athens by car; many visitors combine it with a day at the archaeological site.

Programme: Greek tragedies, comedies, contemporary productions, opera, and music. English subtitles are available for theatrical performances. Tickets should be booked weeks in advance for the most popular shows.

Athens travel guide covers getting around and what to see during a festival visit.

Panigyria (Summer Festival Season)

Every village, island, and neighbourhood in Greece celebrates the feast day of its patron saint with a panigyri — a communal overnight festival of food, music, and circle dancing. These are not tourist events. They are community events that tourists happen to be able to attend.

A standard panigyri: tables and benches are set up in the churchyard or village square. A local band plays traditional music — laika, rebetika, dimotika (folk). Food is served. Wine and raki flow. Circle dances begin and continue until 2am, 3am, 4am, or whenever the last person goes home.

For what is actually in the glass, and how raki differs from tsipouro, see our Greek drinks guide.

The most important are:

• August 15 (Assumption of the Theotokos): Almost every village has a panigyri on this date; Tinos has the largest pilgrimage in Greece. Villages named after the Panagia (Virgin Mary) consider this their most important celebration of the year.
• June 29 (Saints Peter and Paul): Major panigyri in villages with these dedications.
• July 20 (Prophet Elijah): Celebrated on mountaintops where Prophet Elijah churches are traditionally built — stunning settings for overnight celebrations.

How to find panigyria: Ask your accommodation, the local kafeneio, or any Greek person. Literally everyone in the village will know when the next panigyri is. You are welcome to attend any panigyri you find. Bring cash for food and wine.

For island-by-island dates of the summer panigyria, the music and the dances, see our full guide to the panigiri.

Music Festivals in Greece

Greece's summer music festival scene has expanded significantly over the past decade, with international acts increasingly including Greek dates.

Rockwave Festival (June–July, Athens): The longest-running international music festival in Greece, held at the Terra Vibe Park outside Athens. Past headliners have included Foo Fighters, Nick Cave, Placebo, and Massive Attack.

Release Athens (June–July, Athens): Held at the Plateia Nerou (water square) in the Faliro coastal zone, Release Athens brings major international acts to the city. Recent years: Nick Cave, Portishead, The Chemical Brothers.

Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November): One of the most important film festivals in southeastern Europe, presenting Greek and international cinema with premieres and retrospectives.

Ejekt Festival (July, Athens): Independent and alternative music, held in the Athens Riviera area.

Reworks (September, Thessaloniki): Electronic music festival in Greece's second city, with a strong reputation for programming quality.

AnimaSyros (late September, Syros): One of southeast Europe's leading animation festivals takes over neoclassical Ermoupoli for a week. Combine it with the rest of our things to do in Syros.

Visiting Greece in September covers the festival season's final run and the excellent early autumn conditions.

Other Summer Festivals Worth Planning Around

Holy Spirit Monday (June): The Monday 50 days after Easter (1 June 2026, 21 June 2027) is a public holiday for schools, banks and many offices, so Athenians leave for the islands for the long weekend. Book ferries in advance if your trip overlaps it.

Miaoulia, Hydra (late June): Hydra honours Admiral Andreas Miaoulis with a weekend of music, folk dancing and a re-enactment that ends with a replica Ottoman flagship set on fire in the harbour, followed by fireworks. Our Hydra travel guide has how to get there from Piraeus.

Nafplio Festival (June): Classical and chamber music in the old town's churches and Venetian squares, a good reason to base yourself in Nafplio for Epidaurus nights too; it is about 40 minutes from the theatre. See our Nafplio travel guide.

Kalamata International Dance Festival (July): One of the longest-running contemporary dance festivals in southern Europe, with performances in the castle amphitheatre and the town's theatres. Combine it with our Kalamata travel guide.

Most of these July dates fall in peak heat, so it helps to know what to expect in Greece in July before you book around an evening performance.

August

Assumption of the Theotokos (August 15)

The Dormition of the Virgin — Koimisis tis Theotokou — is the most important Orthodox summer feast and one of the most widely celebrated dates in the Greek calendar. Greece, in essence, shuts down for this day and the surrounding days as families travel to ancestral villages for family reunions and panigyria.

It is also the name day of every Maria, Panagiotis and Despina in the country, which is why August 15 is a family occasion as much as a religious one; see our guide to Greek name days.

Tinos: The island's Church of Panagia Evangelistria houses an icon of the Virgin attributed with miraculous powers. On August 15, pilgrims arrive from across Greece and the Greek diaspora, some crawling on their knees up the road from the port to the church as a devotional act. The event draws tens of thousands of people and is one of the most significant religious pilgrimages in Orthodox Christianity.

Throughout Greece: Almost every village has a panigyri on August 15 or the days surrounding it. If you are in any Greek village around this date, there will be a celebration nearby.

August 15 — Olympos, Karpathos. The most complete surviving village panigyri in the Dodecanese, and one of the few anywhere still run entirely for the villagers rather than for visitors. Three days of lyra music, communal feasting and whole goats roasted in the square from before dawn, with the women in full Karpathiot costume. Emigrant Karpathians fly back from around the world for it. Plan to sleep in the village or in Diafani below — the mountain road down is not a drive to make at four in the morning. Our Karpathos travel guide explains what to expect.

The August Full Moon (late August)

On the night of the August full moon, the Ministry of Culture keeps dozens of archaeological sites, monuments and museums open late, many with free concerts, theatre or readings under the moon. The full moon falls on 28 August 2026 and 17 August 2027; the participating sites are announced only a week or two before, so check the ministry's announcement once you are in Greece. Arrive early, as the most famous Athens sites reach capacity well before moonrise.

September

September is the best month of the year for festival-goers who hate crowds: the sea is at its warmest, the August rush is gone, and the calendar is still full. The Reworks electronic weekend in Thessaloniki and AnimaSyros on Syros (both above) belong here too.

Thessaloniki International Fair (early to mid-September)

Greece's biggest trade fair opens in Thessaloniki every September, with the prime minister's annual economic speech, concerts and late-night crowds around the exhibition grounds next to the White Tower. Hotels in the city book out on the opening weekend.

Armata, Spetses (mid-September)

Spetses re-enacts the 1822 burning of an Ottoman flagship off the island: a week of concerts and events ends with a full-size replica set alight in the old harbour and a long fireworks display. Our Spetses travel guide covers getting there and where to watch from.

Grape Harvest and Wine Festivals

Late August through September is harvest time in Nemea, Santorini, Crete and northern Greece, and many wine villages hold a local wine festival with free tastings, music and dancing. Our Greek wine guide explains the grapes and the regions.

Spetses holds its Armata festival in September, commemorating a naval victory from the Greek War of Independence; our guide to the Saronic Islands covers how to reach the island from Athens.

October

Ohi Day (October 28)

The national holiday commemorating Greece's refusal of the Axis ultimatum in 1940 — the single word Ohi (No) that has become a symbol of national resistance. Military and student parades take place in Athens, Thessaloniki, and every city and town in Greece. Greeks put flags on their balconies. Schools are closed.

Visiting Greece in October covers the full autumn travel picture, including this excellent period to visit.

Dimitria Festival, Thessaloniki (October)

Thessaloniki's arts festival runs through October around the feast of its patron saint, Agios Dimitrios, on October 26, with concerts, theatre and exhibitions across the city, and the saint's day itself is a local holiday two days before Ohi Day.

Chestnut Festivals (October to November)

Autumn brings chestnut festivals to the mountain villages: Elos in western Crete holds one of the best known in October, with roasted chestnuts, raki and music in the plane-shaded square, and Agiasos on Lesvos follows in November.

November

Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November)

One of the most important film festivals in southeastern Europe, running since 1960. Greek premieres and major international competition. Screenings throughout Thessaloniki's cinemas.

Polytechnic Anniversary (November 17)

The anniversary of the 1973 student uprising against the military junta. Schools are closed, the Polytechnic building on Patission Street is opened for people to lay flowers, and the afternoon march from there to the US Embassy is one of the largest of the year. If you are in Athens, expect central metro stations to close in the afternoon and avoid the Exarchia area that evening.

Athens Marathon (second Sunday of November)

The Athens Authentic Marathon follows the original route from the town of Marathon to the marble Panathenaic Stadium, with tens of thousands of runners across the marathon and shorter races. Central roads close for most of the morning, so leave extra time for any airport transfer that day.

December

Christmas (December 25)

Greek Christmas customs include children singing kalanda (carols) door to door on Christmas Eve in exchange for small gifts or money, the traditional sweets (melomakarona and kourabiedes), and the Vassilopita — a New Year's cake (not specifically a Christmas item) with a coin hidden inside for good luck.

Christmas boats: A specifically Greek tradition, particularly in coastal and island communities, is the decoration of model boats rather than Christmas trees. The karavoloulas (small decorated boat) appears in harbours, squares, and homes.

Saint Spyridon, Corfu (December 12): Corfu's patron saint gets a feast day in December as well as four processions through the year (Palm Sunday, Holy Saturday, August 11 and the first Sunday of November), when his relics are carried through the old town to brass bands.

For why Greece keeps Christmas on December 25 while Russia keeps it on January 7, see our guide to the Greek Orthodox Church.

Travelling over Christmas, Epiphany or Carnival? Our guide to Greece in winter covers what is open, how cold it gets and where to base yourself from November to March.

New Year's Eve and Vassilopita (December 31–January 1)

New Year's Eve in Greece — Protochronya — involves card games (traditionally, Greeks gamble on New Year's Eve), a pomegranate broken against the threshold at midnight for good luck, and the cutting of the Vassilopita at midnight or on New Year's Day. The person who finds the coin in their slice will have good luck for the year.

One island runs a fuller festival year than almost anywhere else in the Aegean: Lesvos has the Agiasos Carnival in February, the Plomari ouzo festival in July, the Kalloni sardine festival and the Mantamados ceramics festival in August, and the Agiasos chestnut festival in November. Our guide to things to do in Lesvos has the calendar and how to reach the mountain villages where most of them happen.

Festivals of Ancient Greece

Many of today's festivals sit on the bones of ancient ones, and a few of the ancient festivals can still be traced on the ground. These were the ones that shaped the Greek year.

Panathenaia (Athens, midsummer): The great festival of Athena. Every four years the Great Panathenaia led a procession along the Panathenaic Way from the Kerameikos, through the Agora and up to the Acropolis to present the goddess with a new woven robe, the peplos. The procession is carved on the Parthenon frieze, and you can walk the same route today.

City Dionysia (Athens, March to April): The festival of Dionysus where tragedy and comedy were born, with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides competing in the Theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis. The Athens Epidaurus Festival is its direct descendant, and Carnival's masks and wine have their roots in Dionysian revelry. Our guide to the 12 Olympian gods covers the god himself.

Anthesteria (late winter): A three-day Athenian wine festival when the new wine was opened, children received small jugs, and the spirits of the dead were believed to walk the city.

Thesmophoria (autumn): A women-only festival for Demeter and Persephone, held across the Greek world, tied to sowing and fertility.

The Olympic Games (Olympia): The most famous of all, held every four years in honour of Zeus. The ancient tradition lives on in the Olympic flame lighting ceremony at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, held a few months before each modern Games. See our Olympia travel guide.

Public Holidays in Greece: What Closes

On these days, banks, most shops and public services close, and many museums and archaeological sites either close or open on short hours: 1 January, 6 January, Clean Monday, 25 March, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday, 1 May, Holy Spirit Monday, 15 August, 28 October, 25 and 26 December. Supermarkets and tavernas in tourist areas usually stay open, and island ferries run, but often on reduced timetables.

Two more dates to know. On 1 May, transport unions sometimes strike, so check ferry and metro services the day before. And several sites offer free entry on set days, including 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September and the first Sunday of each month from November to March, which makes them very crowded. Our guide to the best museums in Greece has the opening details.

Most panigiria happen in villages the ferry schedule has never heard of — our transportation in Greece guide covers the KTEL routes and rental-car logic for reaching them.

How to Plan a Trip Around a Greek Festival

Book the bed first. For Patras Carnival, Easter on Corfu or Patmos, and August 15 on Tinos or in Olympos, rooms go months ahead; for Tinos on August 15, book by spring at the latest.

Book ferries for the big weekends. Easter, Holy Spirit Monday and the week of August 15 are the busiest sailing days of the year. Tickets on the main Cyclades routes sell out, so buy as soon as the schedule is released. Our Greece ferry guide explains how to book.

Buy performance tickets early. Athens Epidaurus Festival tickets go on sale in spring on the festival's official site, and the best seats at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus and Epidaurus go within weeks. Release Athens and Rockwave headliners also sell out in advance. Panigyria and religious feasts need no ticket at all.

Bring cash and dress for church. Panigyria run on cash for food and wine. For church services, Epitaphios processions or monasteries, cover your shoulders and knees.

Smaller local events can be worth a detour too. The Plastira Lake Festival and the Lamperó swim crossing in the Agrafa mountains are covered in our Lake Plastira travel guide.

Use a base, not a moving itinerary. Around August 15 and Easter, stay in one place and join that town's celebration rather than trying to travel on the day itself; roads and ferries are at their busiest. Our AI Trip Planner can build the rest of the trip around the date you choose.

Plan Your Greece Trip

• Greek Easter Guide — the biggest event of the Greek year
• Greek Customs and Traditions — the cultural context for these festivals
• Visiting Greece in April and May — Easter and spring travel
• Visiting Greece in September — festivals and ideal conditions
• Visiting Greece in October — autumn events and Ohi Day
• Athens Travel Guide — where most major festivals are centred
• How to Plan a Trip to Greece — the full planning framework

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