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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2026 Columbus Festival Schedule
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OCTOBER
10/1-10/4 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival VII – Powell – My Review
10/2-10/3 – Newark Station Arts and Music Festival – Newark
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
10/7-10/11 – Pumpkins Aglow I – Columbus
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
10/10 – Columbus Community Pride Festival – Columbus
10/10-10/11 – Oakland Nurseries Fall Festival – Columbus – My Review
10/14-10/18 – Pumpkins Aglow II – 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
10/21-10/25 – Pumpkins Aglow III – Columbus
10/22-10/25 – Columbus Zoo Lantern Festival X – Powell – My Review
10/28-11/1 – Pumpkins Aglow IV – Columbus
10/30 – Haunted Fest: Columbus – Columbus
10/31 – Amanda Harvest and Halloween Festival – Amanda
NOVEMBER
11/20-11/22 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo I – Powell
11/21-11/22 – Aladdin Shrine FEZtival of Trees I – Grove City
11/22 – Holiday Lights Celebration – Gahanna
11/23-11/28 (Closed 11/26) – Aladdin Shrine FEZtival of Trees II – Grove City
11/23-11/29 (Closed 11/26) – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo II – Powell
11/30-12/6 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo III – Powell
DECEMBER
12/4-12/5 – Christmas in the Village – Canal Winchester
12/7-12/13 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo IV – Powell
12/14-12/20 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo V – Powell
12/21-12/27 (Closed 12/24) – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo VI – Powell
12/28-1/3 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo VII – Powell
MORE FESTIVALS COMING SOON!