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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MAY

5/1 – Bexley Asian and Pacific Islander Asian Heritage Festival – Columbus
5/1 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: 80’s Game Night – Mt. Sterling
5/2 – Ohio Asian Cultural Heritage Festival – Dublin
5/2 – Herb Day Festival – Gahanna

5/8 – Indianola Informal Carnival – Columbus
5/8-5/9 – Midwest Psych Fest – Galena
5/9 – Downtown Newark Food Truck Festival – Newark

5/14-5/17 – The Sonic Temple Art and Music Festival – Columbus
5/15-5/17 – Community Days Festival – Lancaster
5/16 – Art on the Canal Art Stroll – Canal Winchester
5/16 – Kent Craft Beer Fest – Kent
5/16-5/17 – Delaware Arts Festival – Delaware

5/23-5/24 – Columbus Asian Festival – Columbus – My Review
5/23-5/24 – Jeni’s Strawberry Jam at Land-Grant – Columbus
5/23-5/24 – Riverfront Culture Fest (Ohio Black Expo) – Columbus
5/23-5/25 – Utica Old Fashioned Ice Cream Festival – Utica – My Review

5/29-5/30 – Breakaway Music Festival – Columbus
5/29-5/31 – Newark Strawberry Festival – Newark

JUNE

6/5 – Germania Columbus Sommerfest – Columbus
6/5 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Sounds of Summer – Mt. Sterling
6/5-6/6 – Grove City Town Center Wine and Arts Festival – Grove City – My Review
6/6 – Columbus Chicken and Beer Festival – Columbus
6/6-6/7 – Central Ohio Folk Festival – Lockbourne
6/6-6/7 – Columbus Taco Fest – Obetz

6/11 – Columbus Cigar Fest: Bourbon and Cigars – Hilliard
6/12-6/14 – Columbus Arts Festival – Columbus – My Review
6/13 – Buckeye Country Superfest – Columbus
6/13 – Columbus Cigar Fest: The Big Smoke – Columbus
6/13 – Marysville Pride Fest – Marysville
6/13 – Reynoldsburg Pride Celebration – Reynoldsburg
6/13-6/14 –Marysville Strawberry Fest (formerly at Marion County Fairgrounds) – Marysville
6/14 – Columbus Cigar Fest: Blu Smoking – Columbus
6/14 – Grove City PrideFest – Grove City

6/19-6/20 – Color of Summer Weekend Festival – Columbus
6/19-6/20 – Juneteenth Ohio Festival – Columbus – My Review
6/19-6/20 – Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival – Columbus – My Review
6/19-6/20 – Powell Festival – Powell – My Review
6/19-6/20 – St. John Neumann Community Festival – Sunbury
6/19-6/21 – Creekside Blues and Jazz Festival – Gahanna
6/20 – Juneteenth on the Ave. – Columbus
6/20 – KidsLinked Columbus Children’s Festival – Dublin – My Review
6/20 – Reynoldsburg Juneteenth – Reynoldsburg
6/20-6/21 – Worthington Arts Festival – Worthington – My Review

6/25-6/27 – London Strawberry Festival – London – My Review
6/26-6/28 – ComFest (Community Festival) – Columbus – My Review
6/27 – Historic Hilltop Bean Dinner – Columbus
6/27 – Pickle Palooza Food and Drink Fest: Columbus – Columbus
6/28 – Upper Arlington Pride – Upper Arlington

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

7/18-7/19 – 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 – 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

7/31-8/2 – Dublin Irish Festival – Dublin – My Review

AUGUST

8/7 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Beach Night – Mt. Sterling
8/7-8/9 – Brats and Crafts Festival – Columbus – My Review
8/8 – St. Josephine Bakhita Parish Festival at St. Elizabeth – Columbus
8/8 – Uptown Untapped Beer Festival – Westerville

8/13-8/15 – Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival – Reynoldsburg – My Review
8/14-8/15 – Carroll Community Festival – Carroll – My Review
8/14-8/15 – St. Andrew Parish Festival – Columbus
8/15 – Harlem Township Days – Galena
8/15 – Lancaster BrewFest – Lancaster

8/19-8/22 – Pataskala Street Fair – Pataskala
8/21-8/22 – All Ohio Balloon Fest – Marysville
8/22 – Columbus ArborFest – Columbus
8/22 – Sunbury Sizzle and Sounds – Sunbury – My Review
8/23 – Merion Village Festival – Columbus

8/27-8/30 – Columbus Comedy Festival – Columbus
8/30 –International Festa-Val – Columbus

SEPTEMBER

9/2-9/5 – Sweet Corn Festival – Millersport – My Review
9/4 – Mt Sterling First Fridays: Harvest Night – Mt. Sterling
9/6 – Bexley Summerfest – Bexley
9/7 – Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival – Upper Arlington

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

9/18-9/19 – Columbus Serbian Festival – Columbus
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

9/22 – Grandview Fall Festival – Columbus
9/26 – Moon Festival and Kung-Fu Tai-Chi Day – Dublin
9/26 – Old Worthington Market Day – Worthington – My Review

OCTOBER

10/3 – Newark Ohio Pride Festival – Newark
10/3-10/4 – Columbus Coffee Festival – Hilliard

10/9-10/11 – Columbus Italian Festival – Columbus – My Review
10/9-10/11 – Urban Scrawl – 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

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!