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Hampshire is set for another exciting year in 2024, with an array of large-scale events and festivals. Home to a host of food and music festivals, family fun events, and special anniversaries, you're sure to find plenty of exciting events to include Hampshire in your holiday plans. 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, the largest seaborne invasion ever, and one that changed the course of history. There will be a host of anniversary events across the region, both on the 6th June but also throughout the year at The D-Day Story in Portsmouth. Jane Austen House will also be celebrating its 75th anniversary as a museum before the county marks the 250th anniversary of Jane’s birth in 2025.
Grab your calendar and start planning your next visit to Hampshire, here are some of the most popular events happening across the county in 2024 - The Alresford Watercress Festival (19th May 2024), Basingstoke Festival (21st June - 7th July 2024), Farnborough International Airshow (22nd - 26th July 2024), Winchester Hat Fair (30th June - 1st July 2024), Beaulieu Supercar Weekend, Beaulieu (3rd - 4th August), Victorious Festival Portsmouth (23rd - 25th August 2024), International Kite Festival, Portsmouth (27th - 28th July 2024), New Forest & Hampshire Country Show, (30th July - 1st August 2024), Southampton International Boat Show (13th - 22nd September 2024), all filling the Hampshire calendar to bursting.
To find out what's on in Hampshire today or this weekend, explore our featured list below or use the 'what's on search box' above to narrow down your required date. Families on a budget can look out for the many free events (F) taking place, you'll also find plenty of fun activities for kids to do whether it's during the holidays or on a weekend break. Hampshire's fertile rural landscape means that food and drink play a big part in the county's event calendar with local produce championed and enjoyed through Farmers' Markets, beer festivals, celebrity visits, and plenty of tasting opportunities!
If you're travelling from outside the area for an event in Hampshire, there are numerous hotels and other accommodation options to suit your needs.
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The guide below shows our calendar of events in Hampshire. Whether you're looking for What's on in Hampshire this weekend or further ahead, whether you're local or visiting the area for the first time, find what's happening near you by clicking the 'Map View' button.
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Music
Petersfield
They're back in town!
No Jacket Required have built themselves a reputation as the best and most established Phil Collins tribute in the country!
Music
Eastleigh
Fresh from their recent sell-out concert at the Turner Sims Concert Hall, don't miss the City of Southampton Orchestra under principal conductor John Traill for a wonderful evening of British Music at Thornden Hall.
The concert begins with Gustav…
Sporting Events
FRESHWATER
Dramatic cliffs, beautiful coves, a stately home, a world famous pop festival site… the Isle of Wight Festival of Running boasts an unparalleled location!
The Isle of Wight Festival of Running is back in 2024. Events will be added to the…
Gardens
Winchester
Led by members of the Winchester College gardening team, these tours explore the vast biodiversity and horticultural history of the beautiful hidden gardens of Winchester College. This includes a look at a traditional college 'quad', a quiet sitting…
Music
Petersfield
Superb tribute to Oasis. Expect to hear: Wonderwall, Don't look Back in Anger, Supersonic and tons more!
Theatre
Winchester
Relentlessly funny and bursting with magic for ages five to 105!
Roll up, roll up! Morgan & West are back with a massive magic show for kids (and their childish grown-ups)!
Expect gawps, gasps, and guffaws in this relentlessly funny and…
Comedy
Winchester
As seen on the BBC, brace yourself for this award winning smash hit Girls Night Out with Flat and the Curves, the comedy girl band that's leaving a trail of sequins across the UK in 2024!
This powerhouse, glittery cabaret is a fierce blend of…
Childrens Events
Winchester
Are you ready for a completely unique cinema experience? Grab a seat, sit back and relax as one of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, Cool Runnings, plays out under the stars of the Planetarium.
When the Science Centre doors close, the cinema screen…
Music
Winchester
As seen on BBC ONE, ITV This Morning, Channel 5, Sky, ITV London; featured in The Times, The Daily Mail and the Metro, and voted the U.K's BEST Dolly Parton Impersonator, West End star - Kelly O'Brien is country legend Dolly Parton.
The only Dolly…
Outdoor Event / Activities
New Forest
Enjoy an open-air production of Pride and Prejudice on Tuesday 13th August, as Chapterhouse Theatre Company presents Jane Austen's iconic novel with an evening of magical theatre in the Beaulieu grounds.
Step back in time over two hundred years and…
Outdoor Event / Activities
Sherborne St John
1 August, gates open 7.45pm, film starts 9.15pm ends 11.15pm. Pack a picnic and join us for an outdoor cinema experience like no other with a showing of the fantastic Pretty Woman, starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, on a HUGE open-air screen…
Theatre
Winchester
London's longest-running theatre magic show, direct from the Leicester Square Theatre, presents some of the most exciting names in magic and variety in the UK.
An exciting, family-friendly show offering an amazing mixture of magic, comedy and…
Christmas
Winchester
Play to the Crowd EGGcited to announce that our next pantomime will be Mother Goose, the first time this famous, traditional pantomime has ever been produced at Theatre Royal Winchester.
So come and have a GANDER at what promises to be an…
Outdoor Event / Activities
New Forest
A new addition to the 2024 events calendar, the Beaulieu Bikers' Day on Saturday 6th July will be an unmissable day out for motorbike fans.
No matter what the age, make or model of your motorbike, the Beaulieu Bikers' Day is open to all. So pull on…
Outdoor Event / Activities
New Forest
Tickets are now on sale for BBC Gardeners' World Spring Fair taking place in the stunning grounds of Beaulieu from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th May 2024.
What better way to inspire your gardening year ahead than by joining us in May for the return of…
Music
Winchester
DS:UK comes full circle and return in 2024 with their highly anticipated Alchemical Tour - their tribute to the Dire Straits infamous live Alchemy album, which was released as the first live album recorded during the final nights of the 1982 - 1983…
Music
Winchester
"What a fabulous team they make, together producing a startlingly new musical form with few, if any, antecedents. The flights of musical fancy are staggering in their natural invention" - Fatea Magazine
The Gigspanner Big Band are a unique force in…
Music
Winchester
The Dragon of Wantley - Lampe's 1737 smash hit: a Yorkshire legend, a send up of Italian opera seria, with earthy satire, razor wit and delightful music in the style of Handel.
A dragon is terrorising the Yorkshire countryside, devouring anything…
Special Events
Selborne, Alton
: This outdoor workshop offers teachers a rare opportunity to focus on themselves. You will come away with a valuable perspective on your current state of wellbeing and armed with several helpful strategies for becoming more self-aware and reducing…
Festival
Basingstoke
Over 800 assorted vehicles, autojumble & trade stalls Refreshments all day, fun and games for the kids.
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