List of festivals in the United Kingdom

A

 * Albion Fairs
 * Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
 * Appleby Jazz Festival
 * Arundel Festival

B

 * Bolton food festival
 * Barnes Film Festival
 * Bath Fringe Festival
 * Bath International Music Festival
 * Bath Literature Festival
 * Beached Festival in Scarborough
 * Bedford Fringe Festival - 2023 will be 16th year
 * Bedford River Festival
 * Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
 * Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival, Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF), Birmingham Mela
 * Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
 * Blissfields, near Winchester
 * Bloodstock Open Air
 * Boishakhi Mela festival
 * Bradford Literature Festival
 * Bradford Mela Festival
 * Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
 * Bridgwater: Guy Fawkes Carnival
 * Brighton Festival
 * Brighton Festival Fringe
 * Bristol: Ashton Court, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival
 * Bromyard Folk Festival
 * Bulldog Bash Motorcycle Festival
 * BunkFest
 * Burtfest, Burton Upon Trent
 * Bury Festival, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
 * Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire

C

 * Cambridge Folk Festival
 * CarFest
 * Cary Comes Home Festival
 * Castlemorton Common Festival
 * Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals:
 * Cheltenham Cricket Festival
 * Cheltenham Jazz Festival
 * Cheltenham Literature Festival
 * Cheltenham Music Festival
 * Cheltenham Science Festival
 * Chicken Stock Festival, small arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire
 * Cleveland: Middlesbrough Music Live Stockton Riverside Festival
 * Clitheroe Food Festival, Lancashire's premier food and drink festival, Clitheroe, Lancashire
 * Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite, Royal Show
 * Creamfields dance music festival
 * Cropredy Festival
 * Cypriot Film Festival UK

D

 * Deepdale Festival, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
 * Deepdale Hygge, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
 * Donington Monsters of Rock
 * Dover Carnival, Dover, England
 * Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park motorsport circuit since 2003
 * Durham Miners' Gala

E

 * Endless Festival
 * Esedhvos Kernow, Cornwall

F

 * Frome Festival, Somerset
 * FuseLeeds
 * FladFest, Fladbury

G

 * Glastonbury Festival
 * Glyndebourne Opera Festival
 * Godiva Festival
 * Golowan Festival
 * Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire
 * Greenbelt festival
 * Green Man Festival
 * Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
 * Guilfest

H

 * H2OFest
 * Harrogate: Harrogate International Festivals, Great Yorkshire Show
 * Hemsby Festival
 * Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
 * HowTheLightGetsIn Festival
 * Huddersfield: Caribbean Carnival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Asian Mela

I

 * Ilkley Literature Festival
 * International Festival of the Sea
 * International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral
 * International Organ Festival at St Albans
 * Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970

K

 * Keighley: Keighley Festival
 * Kendal Mountain Film Festival
 * Keswick Mountain Festival
 * Knebworth concerts (occasional)

L

 * Land of Kings, London Borough of Hackney
 * The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal, Cumbria
 * Latitude Festival, Suffolk
 * Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
 * LeeFest, Bromley
 * Leicester: Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival
 * Letchworth Garden City: Rap-Aid Music Festival
 * Lichfield Festival
 * Liverpool: Liverpool Garden Festival (1984)
 * London: Carnival de Cuba; Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival; City of London Festival; Covent Garden Festival; Kensington Dollshouse Festival; Festival of Britain (1951); Greenwich+Docklands International Festival; Greenwich Film Festival; Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Notting Hill Carnival; Oktoberfest, the German cultural festival held in Richmond-upon-Thames; Portobello Film Festival; Spitalfields Festival
 * London History Festival
 * Lost Village Festival
 * Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
 * Lumiere festival
 * Luton Carnival
 * Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
 * Lytham Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire
 * Lytham International Film Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire

N

 * Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hoppings
 * Newlyn Fish Festival
 * Norfolk and Norwich Festival
 * Nouka Baich

P

 * Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
 * Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire
 * Peterborough Festival
 * Parklife Weekender, Heaton Park

R

 * Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD
 * RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
 * Ross on Wye International Festival

S

 * Salisbury International Arts Festival
 * Sathiyanathan Natarajan
 * Scarborough Literature Festival
 * Shakespeare Schools Festival
 * Sheffield International Documentary Festival
 * Shifnal Festival
 * Sidmouth Folk Festival
 * Slapstick Festival
 * Soundwave Festival
 * St Barnabas Community Fete, Bow, London
 * Stonehenge Free Festival
 * StoomFest Rock Music Festival - Stoner, Doom, and Psych Rock Fest, London
 * Strawberry Fair, Cambridge
 * Swan Upping

T

 * Tankfest
 * Thames Festival
 * Thought Bubble Festival
 * Three Choirs Festival
 * The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
 * Towersey Village Festival
 * Tramlines Festival

V

 * V Festival
 * Vegfest (UK)

W

 * Warwick Folk Festival
 * Weekend at the Asylum
 * West Country: West Country Carnival circuit
 * Weyfest
 * Wimborne Folk Festival
 * Wirral International Film Festival
 * Womad
 * Women in Tune
 * Wonderfields, Devon
 * Worcestershire Literary Festival

Y

 * Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton

Scotland

 * Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, The World Festival of Youth Arts; Word; Wordfringe; Dance Live; Sound
 * Dumfries and Galloway: Gaelfest
 * Dundee: Dundee Flower and Food Festival, Dundee Guitar Festival, Dundee Blues Bonanza, Dundee International Book Prize
 * Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festivals of the Sea
 * Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
 * Glasgow: Glasgow Jazz Festival; Celtic Connections; MovieMinds, an international online film festival TRNSMT
 * Hebridean Celtic Festival
 * Inverary: Connect Festival
 * Inverness: Highland Festival
 * Orkney: St Magnus Festival
 * Perth & Kinross: Mugstock Festival
 * Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
 * Shetland: Up Helly-Aa
 * Ullapool: Loopallu Festival
 * Various sites: T in the Park

Wales

 * Abergavenny Food Festival
 * Brecon Jazz Festival
 * Cardiff Festival
 * Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
 * Green Man Festival
 * Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
 * HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye
 * Llangollen International Eisteddfod
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales
 * Pontardawe Festival
 * Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
 * Small Nations Festival
 * Urdd National Eisteddfod

Northern Ireland

 * Belfast Festival at Queens
 * Belfast Film Festival
 * Shakespeare Schools Festival, Belfast and Derry

Themes

 * Film: Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Lesbian and Gay, Portobello, Sheffield
 * Folk: Bridgnorth, Bromyard, Cambridge, Cropredy, Fleetwood, Sidmouth, Towersey, Warwick, Wimborne
 * Jazz: Bath, Birmingham, Burnham Deepdale, Coventry, Glasgow, Clitheroe
 * Literature: Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Hay, Ilkley, Worcestershire Literary Festival, Wordfringe
 * Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime), HowTheLightGetsIn (philosophy and music)