Your festival event guide for the Columbus, Ohio Area, including Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union Counties.

Welcome to a comprehensive festival listing page and guide for Columbus, Ohio and the greater area. Once area festivals are confirmed on the main Ohio Festival Schedule, they are copied over to this page to make it easier to plan your weekend festival adventures. Please keep in mind that you should not see area festivals that have been canceled or have not yet been confirmed.

Other areas of Ohio with Festival Schedule Pages include Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Otherwise, for other areas of the state or all of Ohio, please refer back to the Ohio Festival Schedule.

Festivals listed here include music festivals, art festivals, food festivals, town festivals, church festivals, cultural festivals and more, but they do not include craft shows, machinery shows, bazaars, county fairs and some other events that can be found on the Fairs, Shows, Expos, Bazaars Page.

“My Review” means that it’s a link to my review of that festival.

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JULY

7/1-7/4 – Granville Kiwanis July 4th Celebration – Granville
7/3 – Red White and Boom! – Columbus
7/3 – July Sommerfest: Red, White and Brats – Columbus
7/3 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Celebrate American250 – Mt. Sterling
7/4 – The Doo Dah Parade – Columbus – My Review
7/4 – Hilliard Freedom Fest – Hilliard

7/9-7/11 – Picktown Palooza – Pickerington
7/11 – Shamrock Club of Columbus Irish Music Festival – Columbus
7/11-7/12 – Columbus Book Festival – Columbus
7/11-7/12 – St. Timothy Festival on the Green – Columbus

7/17-7/18 – St. Matthew the Apostle Parish Festival – Gahanna
7/18-7/19 – Columbus African Festival – Columbus
7/18-7/19 – Lancaster Festival I – Lancaster

7/20-7/25 – Lancaster Festival II – Lancaster
7/23-7/25 – 7 Mile Bluegrass Festival – Circleville
7/24 – Arts on Arlington – Upper Arlington
7/24-7/25 – Canal Winchester Blues and Ribfest – Canal Winchester – My Review
7/24-7/25 – Immaculate Conception Parish Festival – Columbus
7/24-7/25 – St. Margaret of Cortona Parish Festival – Columbus
7/24-7/26 – Columbus Jazz and Rib Fest – Columbus
7/25 – NEAT: A Bourbon Event – Newark
7/25 – The Ohio Eggfest – Obetz
7/25 – Whitehall Food Truck and Fun Festival – Whitehall

7/31-8/1 – Our Lady of Perpetual Help Community Festival – Grove City
7/31-8/2 – Dublin Irish Festival – Dublin – My Review

AUGUST

8/7 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Beach Night – Mt. Sterling
8/7-8/8 – Our Lady of Victory Parish Festival – Columbus
8/7-8/8 – St. Brendan Parish Festival – Hilliard
8/7-8/8 – London Rhythm and Rib Fest – London – My Review
8/7-8/9 – Brats and Crafts Festival – Columbus – My Review
8/8 – St. Josephine Bakhita Parish Festival at St. Elizabeth – Columbus
8/8 – Grove City Town Center Bourbon and Spirits Festival – Grove City
8/8 – Uptown Untapped Beer Festival – Westerville

8/13-8/15 – Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival – Reynoldsburg – My Review
8/13-8/15 – Holy Spirit Festival and Homecoming – Whitehall
8/14-8/15 – Carroll Community Festival – Carroll – My Review
8/14-8/15 – St. Andrew Parish Festival – Columbus
8/14-8/15 – St. Cecilia Festival – Columbus
8/14-8/16 – Seton Parish Festival – Pickerington
8/15 – Harlem Township Days – Galena
8/15 – Lancaster BrewFest – Lancaster

8/19-8/22 – Pataskala Street Fair – Pataskala
8/20-8/22 – St. Peter St. Joan of Arc Community Festival – Powell
8/20-8/23 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival I – Powell – My Review
8/21-8/22 – All Ohio Balloon Fest – Marysville
8/22 – Columbus ArborFest – Columbus
8/22 – India Festival – Columbus
8/22 – Sunbury Sizzle and Sounds – Sunbury – My Review
8/22-8/23 – Festival Latino – Columbus
8/23 – Merion Village Festival – Columbus

8/27-8/30 –Columbus Comedy Festival – Columbus
8/27-8/30 – Columbus Food and Wine Festival – Columbus
8/27-8/30 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival II – Powell – My Review
8/29 – Hot Licks Bluesfest – Granville – My Review
8/30 –International Festa-Val – Columbus

SEPTEMBER

9/2-9/5 – Sweet Corn Festival – Millersport – My Review
9/3-9/6 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival III – Powell – My Review
9/4 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Harvest Night – Mt. Sterling
9/4-9/6 – St. Michael Festival – Worthington
9/5 – Columbus GospelFest – Columbus
9/5-9/6 – Ohio Cup Vintage Base Ball Festival – Westerville – My Review
9/5-9/7 – Canal Winchester Labor Day Festival – Canal Winchester – My Review
9/6 – Bexley Summerfest – Bexley
9/7 – Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival – Upper Arlington

9/10-9/13 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival IV – Powell – My Review
9/11-9/12 – 934 Fest – Columbus
9/11-9/12– Fall at the Round Barn – Lancaster
9/12 – Delaware County Beer, Bourbon and Wine Festival – Delaware
9/12 – Japan FestOH! – Dublin
9/12 – Hebron Pie Festival – Hebron
9/12 – For the Love of Hilliard – Hilliard
9/12 – Plain City Corn Carnival – Plain City

9/17-9/20 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival V – Powell – My Review
9/18-9/19 – Columbus Serbian Festival – Columbus
9/18-9/19 – Pickerington Oktoberfest – Pickerington
9/18-9/20 – Germania Oktoberfest – Columbus
9/18-9/20 – Olde Towne East Jazz Festival – Columbus
9/18-9/20 – Arts in the Alley – Grove City – My Review
9/18-9/20 – Hartford Apple Festival – Hartford Township
9/19 – Northland Unity Festival – Columbus

9/22 – Grandview Fall Festival – Columbus
9/24-9/27 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival VI – Powell – My Review
9/26 – Festival for Good (at the Grandview Hop) – Columbus
9/26 – Moon Festival and Kung-Fu Tai-Chi Day – Dublin
9/26 – Old Worthington Market Day – Worthington – My Review

OCTOBER

10/1-10/4 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival VII – Powell – My Review
10/2-10/4 – Ohio Gourd Show – Delaware – My Review
10/3 – Newark Ohio Pride Festival – Newark
10/3 – Smokin’ Hot Wing and Music Fest – Sunbury
10/3-10/4 – Columbus Coffee Festival – Hilliard
10/4 – Old-Time Harvest Day – Grove City

10/8-10/11 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival VIII – Powell – My Review
10/9-10/11 – Columbus Italian Festival – Columbus – My Review
10/9-10/11 – Urban Scrawl – Columbus

10/15-10/18 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival IX – Powell – My Review
10/17 – El Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead – Columbus
10/17 – WizFest at Boardman Park – Delaware
10/17-10/18 – Mystics and Marvels: A Faire of Unusual Things – Hilliard

10/21-10/24 – Circleville Pumpkin Show – Circleville – My Review
10/22-10/25 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival X – Powell – My Review

10/30 – Haunted Fest: Columbus – Columbus
10/31 – Amanda Harvest and Halloween Festival – Amanda

NOVEMBER

11/21-11/22 – Aladdin Shrine FEZtival of Trees I – Grove City

11/23-11/28 (Closed 11/26) – Aladdin Shrine FEZtival of Trees II – Grove City

MORE FESTIVALS COMING SOON!