Events in Morocco
Festivals move with harvests, moons and ministries — so every entry links its official site for the current dates, and our own guide for the travel side. Visiting for one of them? We build private guided days and activities around any event on this page — never in a group.
Music festivals
Gnaoua & World Music Festival
Three days when Gnaoua maâlems jam with world and jazz artists on ocean-side stages — Morocco's most soulful festival.
Mawazine — Rhythms of the World
One of the world's biggest music festivals: global headliners and Moroccan stars across the capital's open-air stages.
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
Sufi nights, sacred voices and world traditions in palace courtyards — the medina's most transcendent week.
Jazzablanca
International jazz, soul and funk by the Atlantic — Casablanca at its most cosmopolitan.
L'Boulevard
Morocco's urban-music institution: rap, rock and metal from the country's youth culture.
Timitar — Amazigh & World Music
Amazigh music meets world stages by the beach — Agadir's signature festival.
Culture, moussems & seasons
Rose Festival
The Dades valley celebrates its rose harvest with parades, cooperatives in full bloom and a queen of the roses.
Erfoud Date Festival
The Tafilalet's million palms crown their harvest: souks of mejhoul dates, music and desert traditions.
Tan-Tan Moussem
UNESCO-listed gathering of Saharan nomad tribes: camel culture, tbourida and desert poetry.
Marrakech du Rire
Jamel Debbouze's francophone comedy festival fills Marrakech's stages and rooftops with laughter.
Yennayer — Amazigh New Year
Couscous with dried fruits and family tables for year 297x of the Amazigh calendar.
Ramadan & the Eids
The holy month and its two feasts reshape the country's rhythm — and reward travellers who come prepared.
Perseid Meteor Nights over the Sahara
The year's most reliable meteor shower over a true dark-sky desert — up to a meteor a minute above the Erg Chebbi dunes, Milky Way at full strength.
Total Solar Eclipse — 2 August 2027
The century's longest total eclipse over land passes directly over northern Morocco — 4 min 50 s of darkness in Tangier, 4 min 14 s over Chefchaouen.
Cinema & arts
Marrakech International Film Festival
Red carpets under the Koutoubia: world premieres, tributes and open-air screenings on Jemaa el-Fna.
Sport & endurance
Marathon des Sables
The legendary 250 km self-sufficiency ultra across the dunes — the world's toughest footrace.
Marrakech International Marathon
42 fast, flat kilometres past ramparts and palm groves in perfect running weather.
FIFA World Cup 2030
Morocco co-hosts the centenary World Cup — stadiums, cities and the biggest travel event in the kingdom's history.
Business, congresses & fairs
GITEX Africa
Africa's largest tech gathering brings tens of thousands of delegates to Marrakech.
SIAM — International Agriculture Show
Morocco's biggest fair: a million visitors, 70+ countries, and the kingdom's farming heartland on display.
SIEL — International Book Fair
North Africa's leading publishing fair — hundreds of exhibitors and a capital full of authors.
Salon du Cheval
The international horse fair: tbourida charges, breed shows and Morocco's deep equestrian culture.
Atlantic Dialogues
The Policy Center's high-level international forum on the wider Atlantic — diplomats, CEOs and researchers.
Questions travellers ask
How accurate are these event dates?+
Moroccan festivals move with harvests, lunar months and official announcements — so each entry states its usual season and links the official source for the current edition. When an exact date is announced (like the Marrakech film festival), we show it.
Can you build a trip around an event?+
Yes — that is the point of this page: tell us the event on WhatsApp (+212 661 454 738) and we build private guided days, activities and transport around it, never in a group. Hotels near major events sell out early; so do vehicles.
Which events are worth planning a trip around?+
The safest bets: the Marrakech International Film Festival (late November), the Gnaoua Festival in Essaouira (June), Mawazine in Rabat (May–June), the Rose Festival in the Valley of Roses (May) and the Erfoud date harvest (October). Each pairs naturally with one of our circuits.
Hotels fill and prices climb around the big dates — but the cities themselves get even better. Tell us which event brings you and we build the rest of the trip around it: private guided visits, day trips, desert nights and airport transfers, timed to your programme. Message us on WhatsApp — reply within the hour, never a group.