Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
town centre · 360 m from the shore
Film & cinemaOct
1,076 festivals · 76 countries · all by the sea
Summer is always on somewhere.
Independent, unofficial directory · Data: Wikidata (CC0) and the festivals’ own websites, checked October 2026.
This month on the shore
Festivals that publish October or November as their month. Open the tide calendar
Baltimore International Black Film Festival
Baltimore, United States
town centre · 2.7 km from the shore
Film & cinemaOct
Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema
Biarritz, France
seafront · 570 m
Film & cinemaOct
Edinburgh Comic Con
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
town centre · 2.1 km from the shore
Arts & cultureOct
Pick a coast
Eight stretches of shoreline, from the Mediterranean to the Pacific.
The tide calendar
High tide is when most festivals publish their month. We never guess one: 280 of 1,076 have a month so far.
On the beach
Venues on the beach itself, not only in a seaside town. See all 16
On the beachMikuni Fireworks Festival
Mikuni Sunset Beach, Japan
on the beach
Fireworks & lightDate TBC
On the beachKumano Great Fireworks Festival
Kumano, Japan
on the beach
Fireworks & lightDate TBC
On the beachVenice Film Festival
Venice, Italy
on the beach
Film & cinemaSep
On the beach
Festiplage
Cape Cove, Canada
on the beach
General festivalDate TBC
On the beachZrce Spring Break Croatia
Novalja, Croatia
on the beach
Surf & watersportsMay
On the beach
Electrobeach Music Festival
France
on the beach
MusicDate TBC
Read the stripes
Every festival has the canvas of its genre. Thin blue is film, wide coral is music.
From the journal
Coasts, seasons and the people who run festivals. All articles
For organisers: how a festival gets into the directory
How the directory is built, what we check, and how to reach the editors about a listing.
The 16 festivals actually held on the beach
Many festivals say “beach”; 16 of our 1,076 are really on the sand. The list, and how we decided.
Film festivals by the sea: where the screens meet the shore
440 of our 1,076 festivals are about cinema. Here is where they cluster and why.
The busiest month for seaside festivals is not July
Of 1,076 festivals by the sea, only 280 publish a month. Here is what the dated ones say about the season.