Discover festivals, holiday events, and family fun on the Emerald Coast
20 upcoming events
Last updated: Mar 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
A colorful family-friendly event with beach breezes, open sky, and easy photo appeal.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Fort Walton Beach
This is a good fit for visitors because it feels light, visual, and easy to enjoy. Kite festivals work especially well for families and casual sightse...
A spring competition event that brings teams, supporters, and overnight visitors into the area.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
Like many sports weekends, this event matters as much for the travel it creates as for the event itself. If you host or visit during competition weeke...
A family-friendly Earth Day event built around the beaches visitors come to enjoy.
📍 Fort Walton Beach
This event has a wholesome, community-driven feel and still connects clearly to the beach experience. It is especially appealing to families and trave...
A spring showcase of boats, coastal-lifestyle vendors, and home-related exhibits.
📍 Lewis Turner Boulevard Fort Walton Beach
This show is broader than a typical tourist event, but boat and coastal-lifestyle browsing can still appeal to visitors, especially those already inte...
A tournament-style sports weekend that can bring steady family and team travel to the coast.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This event is most useful from a rental-demand standpoint. Championships like this often translate into room nights, family bookings, and busier weeke...
A coastal family event celebrating sea turtles, marine life, and conservation.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Fort Walton Beach
TurtleFest fits nicely with the broader beach-vacation audience because it feels local, family-friendly, and tied to the coast itself. It is the kind ...
A dance competition weekend that draws performers, families, and group travel.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This is another event with strong lodging relevance because it likely means visiting families, performers, and multi-night stays. For most vacationers...
A family-focused expo with products, resources, and activities for parents and expecting families.
📍 Fort Walton Beach
This event is geared primarily toward parents, expecting families, and people interested in baby products and resources. It is not a broad tourism dra...
A cheer championship weekend with strong relevance for team travel and family stays.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This is the kind of competition event that can directly support occupancy because teams and families often build travel plans around it. For the site,...
A food-focused week that gives visitors another reason to plan a dining-centered getaway.
📍 Fort Walton Beach
Restaurant Week is one of the better fits for this kind of site because dining is a real trip-planning category. Visitors already deciding where to st...
A distinctly local coastal event blending seafood, conservation, and community energy.
📍 Harbor Boulevard Destin
This event feels specific to the coast in a way that generic festivals do not. The mix of food, local culture, and marine-conservation relevance helps...
A summer dance event that is highly relevant for family travel and group stays.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
For rentals, this type of event matters because it often means traveling performers, parents, and support groups all needing places to stay. It is not...
An indoor event for shoppers and hobbyists interested in stones, jewelry, fossils, and collectibles.
📍 Lewis Turner Boulevard Fort Walton Beach
This show has a narrower audience than your standard beach-festival content, but it can still appeal to hobbyists and visitors looking for an indoor b...
A summer dance-competition weekend likely to bring visiting families and group travel.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This is another competition event that may not be aimed at casual vacationers but still matters for lodging demand. Families, performers, and coaches ...
A major finals event with strong potential to bring competitors and families to the Emerald Coast.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This is the kind of competition-driven event that can have a measurable effect on bookings and local demand. Even if not every visitor would attend it...
A wellness-oriented expo focused on alternative practices, vendors, and spiritual-interest topics.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This expo is geared toward a specific wellness and holistic-lifestyle audience rather than general beach visitors. It may appeal strongly to that nich...
A bodybuilding showcase that may appeal to competitors, fitness fans, and support groups.
📍 Miracle Strip Parkway Southeast Okaloosa Island
This is another niche event that matters most for participants and the people traveling with them. From a rental perspective, it still has value becau...
Three days of world-class blues and rock on the Gulf Coast at Seascape Resort.
📍 Seascape Resort, Miramar Beach
Get ready for a first-of-its-kind beach music experience. Guitar legend Joe Bonamassa brings his inaugural Sound Wave Beach Weekend to Seascape Resort...
Four days of world-class wine, celebrity chefs, and Gulf Coast charm at Baytowne Wharf.
📍 The Village of Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin, Miramar Beach
Raise a glass to nearly four decades of Emerald Coast wine tradition. The 39th Annual Sandestin Wine Festival returns to the picturesque Village of Ba...
Three nights of soulful rock and Americana on the sand at Seascape Resort.
📍 Seascape Resort, Miramar Beach
The Emerald Coast’s music scene gets even hotter this April when Tedeschi Trucks Band brings their "Sun, Sand and Soul" Beach Weekend to Seascape Re...