Torremolinos Events Calendar: What Is Confirmed, and What Is Still a Pattern

Three Torremolinos events have published dates for 2027; the rest have not, which is the difference between booking flights and planning a rough week. Rockin' Race Jamboree runs 3–7 February 2027, Semana Santa falls 21–28 March 2027, and Infinity Festival is set for 16–20 June 2027. Everything else here carries the window it has occupied recently, labelled as a pattern. Checked against municipal and organiser sources on 31 July 2026.

The three dates you can actually book around

Everything below this line is different in kind. A festival that has run in the same week for a decade will almost certainly run in that week again, but "almost certainly" is not a date.

A calendar that prints last year's dates without saying so is the reason people arrive for a parade that happened in June. Where a fixed calendar date does exist – 23 June, 8 July, 12 October, 5 January – it is stated as such below.

The full year at a glance

February to April: Rockin' Race, Carnival and Holy Week

When is the Rockin' Race Jamboree?

The 33rd Rockin' Race Jamboree runs 3–7 February 2027 in Torremolinos, announced by the organisers with tickets already on sale. It is the most firmly fixed date on this entire page and the one worth building a February trip around. Five days of rockabilly, rock and roll and rhythm and blues draw an audience from across Europe and the Americas, using venues including Hotel La Barracuda, Plaza del Remo and the Auditorio Príncipe de Asturias.

The format splits between ticketed concert programmes and free-to-wander bar and street activity, so it works whether or not you hold a pass. It is adult-leaning and vintage-obsessed rather than a general-audience festival. Accommodation around La Nogalera and the seafront tightens early for this one, and it is the only February week in Torremolinos that behaves like a summer week.

When is Carnival in Torremolinos?

Carnival has no published 2027 date. The 2026 programme ran 27 and 28 February and 1 March, closing with the burning of the sardine on the Sunday, and the event traditionally ends with the Burial of the Sardine procession through the San Miguel district. The window is reliably late February to early March, following the church calendar rather than a fixed date.

Costume parades, chirigotas – satirical singing groups in costume – and children's fancy-dress contests make up the daytime programme, and the street events are free. Individual club nights around La Nogalera charge their own cover. Expect road closures around San Miguel and La Nogalera on parade days.

When is St Patrick's Day in Torremolinos?

17 March, in Plaza de la Nogalera, from around midday. The date is fixed even though the programme is not published far ahead. Torremolinos adopted the celebration comparatively recently and the square hosts live music, dancing and Irish food from lunchtime into the evening. Entry is free and you pay at the stalls. It is a daytime-into-evening event rather than a club night, and it sits comfortably alongside a promenade walk.

When is Semana Santa 2027?

Holy Week 2027 runs 21–28 March, with Palm Sunday on 21 March, Good Friday on 26 March and Easter Sunday on 28 March. Those are the national Spanish dates and they apply to Torremolinos as they do everywhere else in Andalusia. What has not been published is the local detail: the brotherhood processions, the routes and the timetable for 2027 are all still to come.

Processions carry pasos – ornate floats depicting Passion scenes – through the central streets on the evenings of Holy Week, accompanied by drums and incense. It is free to watch from the street, the largest crowds gather on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, and the centre closes to traffic on those evenings.

May and June: crosses, Pride and the start of the circuit

When are the Cruces de Mayo?

Torremolinos holds its Cruces de Mayo over the first two weekends of May. In 2026 that meant 1–2 May and 9–10 May, with decorated floral crosses in Plaza Chiriva, the Patio Andaluz at Montemar Alto and the fairground casetas among other spots. The 2027 dates and the list of participating plazas have not been released.

Each cross site runs a small bar, a food stall and live folk music through the afternoon and evening. It is entirely free, it is neighbourhood-scale, and it is best walked rather than attended – three or four crosses in one evening is the way locals do it. Of everything on this calendar, it is the event that visitors are least likely to have heard of and most likely to enjoy.

When is Torremolinos Pride?

Torremolinos has not published its 2027 Pride dates. The 2026 edition ran 26 May to 6 June, with the flag raised at Plaza Blas Infante at 17:00 and the main march on Saturday 6 June, gathering at 17:00 and setting off at 18:00 from Plaza Blas Infante to finish at the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Cultural Centre, where the manifesto is read.

Several gay-travel calendars currently show 2027 Pride dates. They conflict with each other, none of them matches a municipal source, and at least one of them spans two different years – treat them as guesses. The reliable planning assumption is a programme running from late May into the first weekend of June, with the parade on the Saturday.

The parade and the street programme are free. The circuit parties that run alongside are ticketed and sold through the promoters rather than through the town. La Nogalera is at its busiest of the year on parade weekend; the LGBTQ+ guide to Torremolinos covers how the district works the rest of the time.

The LGBTQ+ circuit festivals

Four ticketed circuit events anchor the summer, and only one of them has 2027 dates.

• Infinity Festival: 16–20 June 2027, confirmed. Beach and club format across Los Álamos and the Nogalera venues. The 2026 edition ran 17–21 June, so the pattern is a mid-June Wednesday-to-Sunday run.
• Love Festival: late July, poorly documented. The promoter's own material advertises 20 to 23 July without stating a year, so this is the one event on the page whose dates should be confirmed directly with the organiser before anything is booked around it.
• MadBear Beach: 7–18 August 2026. Twelve days rather than a weekend, bear-leaning, based around La Nogalera venues and the beach. The organiser's cancellation policy allows refunds up to 48 hours before the event start, promotional tickets excepted. 2027 dates are not out.
• Matrix Sun Festival: 18–23 August 2026. Late-August circuit format, fully ticketed. 2027 dates are not out.

Leather and Fetish Weekend ran 7–10 May 2026 and is adults-only and ticketed. No 2027 dates have been published, and no venue prices are published either, so treat any cover charge you see quoted elsewhere as unverified.

Montemar Fair and the Noche de San Juan

Montemar Fair runs for three days from the last Sunday in June, at the Montemar Alto sports ground beside the train stop. Live music, performances and children's attractions, free to attend, and attended mostly by people who live in the upper town. It is a genuinely small local fair rather than a town-wide event.

Noche de San Juan falls on 23 June, and that date does not move. Bonfires are lit on the beaches – San Juan and Cantarranas are the traditional ones, with the main bonfire at Plaza del Remo – for the midsummer night. It is free, the beaches fill through the late evening, and public transport or a taxi is the sane approach because parking near the sand disappears early.

July and August: the ferias and the beach festivals

Los Álamos Fair and the Feria del Carmen

Los Álamos Fair is on 8 July, a fixed-date family fair in the Los Álamos district. It is worth being precise about this one because of a common confusion: the Los Álamos Beach Festival, the music event, moved to Estepona after complaints from residents. The family fair on 8 July is a different thing and it still happens in Torremolinos.

The Feria de la Virgen del Carmen is La Carihuela's own week. The 2026 edition ran 15–19 July, with 16 July as the main day – mass, the maritime procession in which the Virgin's statue is carried to the beach and taken out to sea accompanied by local boats, and the blessing of the waters at around 21:00 at Rincón del Sol. 2027 dates are not yet published, but mid-July around the 16th is the fixed anchor because 16 July is the Virgin's feast day.

Free to watch. The upper promenade and the pier give the best view of the boat procession, and La Carihuela accommodation is worth booking a few nights ahead if you want to walk to it.

MadBear Beach and Matrix Sun

Both are covered in the circuit list above, and both fall in the same three weeks of August: MadBear Beach 7–18 August 2026 and Matrix Sun Festival 18–23 August 2026. Between them they occupy most of the month. That matters to people travelling for the circuit and equally to people who would rather not be in La Nogalera while it runs.

When is the Flamenco Festival?

This is the least reliable date on the page and the sources genuinely conflict. One recent edition of the Festival Flamenco de Torremolinos is documented on 31 August at the bullring, starting at 22:30; a different edition is listed for 25 September. Tickets have run at around €15.

So: late summer or early autumn, at the bullring, in the €15 bracket, and worth checking the Torremolinos Cultura listings directly rather than trusting a date from any guide including this one. It is a gala-format evening concert with professional singers, dancers and guitarists, and it suits adults and older teenagers rather than young children.

September to January: San Miguel, Christmas and the Kings

When is the Feria de San Miguel?

The town's main annual fair takes the last week of September. The 2025 programme ran 25–29 September, with the romería on the preceding Sunday, 21 September. The daytime fair occupies Plaza San Miguel, Plaza Costa del Sol and Plaza de la Unión Europea; the night fair moves to the Recinto Ferial with casetas, rides, food stalls and concerts. Entry is free throughout and you pay for rides and food separately.

Dates for the coming edition had not been published at the time of writing, but the end-of-September window has held for years. It is the most local large event on the calendar: family-oriented by day, and loud around the fairground until very late at night, which matters if you are staying nearby.

Hispanic Day, 12 October

A fixed national holiday. In Torremolinos it is marked in the town centre from around 11:00 with parades and the municipal music band. Free, quiet, and not a reason to travel – but useful to know about if you are booking around it, because it is a public holiday with the closures that implies.

Christmas Wonderland

The Christmas park in the gardens of the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Cultural Centre ran 19 December 2025 to 4 January 2026, with children's rides at €1 each, bouncy castles, a Christmas market, Santa's village and theatre shows. Dates and prices for the coming season have not been announced.

The pattern across recent years is a mid-to-late December opening running to just after New Year, in the same gardens. Free to enter, with the rides paid individually, and busiest on late weekend afternoons.

The Three Kings Cavalcade

5 January, and the date does not move. In 2026 the cavalcade left Plaza Blas Infante at 17:00 with 13 floats, running a loop through the central avenues – Rafael Quintana Rosado, Europa, Isabel Manoja, Los Manantiales, Plaza Costa del Sol, Palma de Mallorca, Joan Miró and back to Plaza Blas Infante – with an inclusive reception held before the parade for children with functional diversity. The 2027 route and start time are not published yet.

Free, family-focused and heavily attended along the whole route. Arriving half an hour ahead is enough for a decent spot anywhere except the start.

Which weeks fill the hotels

Five windows are the ones that squeeze accommodation, in rough order of severity: Semana Santa (21–28 March 2027), Pride week into the first weekend of June, the August circuit fortnight, the Feria de San Miguel at the end of September, and the Rockin' Race Jamboree in early February. Outside those, Torremolinos in the shoulder months has plenty of supply.

For everything about how the town actually feels in each of those seasons rather than what is scheduled, the seasonal guide covers the atmosphere, and the practical tips guide handles transport, parking and the logistics of event days.

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