- Month of January
Feast of the Black Nazarene - The feast of the Most Holy Black Nazarene is celebrated every 9th of January. Black Nazarene came from a boat that caught fire, turning it from its original white into black wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ held to be miraculous by many Filipinos. The origine if the Black Nazarene is from Mexico to an anonymous carver carpenter and transported by a galleon from Acapulco Mexico. The image is currently enshrined in the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo, Manila Philippines where novena celebrations are held every Friday throughout the whole year.
Pasungay Festival/Festival of Bulls - Pasungay or Festival of Bulls is a festival of bulls on the hillsides of San Joaquin, Iloilo held every 2nd Saturday of January.
Ati-atihan Festival - Ati-Atihan, held every January in the town of Kalibo in the province of Aklan on the island of Panay, is the wildest among Philippine fiestas. Celebrants paint their faces with black soot and wear bright, outlandish costumes as they dance in revelry during the last three days of this week-long festival. a feast in honor of the Santo Niño, is celebrated on the second Sunday after Epiphany. Catholics observe this special day with processions, parades, dancing, and merrymaking.
Philippine Balloon Fiesta - An annual event at the Omni Aviation Complex in Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga. features multicolored hot air balloons with more than a hundred balloon pilots from around the world. This three to four day hot air balloon event is the biggest aviation sports event in the Philippines.
Sinulog Festival - Sinulog is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano peoples Islamic and pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. Sinulog is an annual festival held on the 3rd Sunday of January in Cebu City, Cebu Philippines. The festival honors the so called vision of the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño or Holy Child.
Dinagyang Festival - A religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. Dinagyang Festival is both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.
- Month of February
Panagbenga Festival/Baguio Flower Festival - The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
Feast of Our Lady of Candles - The church of where the Our Lady enshrined, the famous Parish of Our Lady of Candles, is also known as Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral, is also the site of the miraculous image of Virgin Mary, which was canonically crowned by Pope John Paul II in 1982. This feast includes a parade and candlelit blessing to honour Nuestra Senora de Candelaria.
International Bamboo Organ Festival - Las Piñas Bamboo Organ in the Parish Church of St Joseph in Las Piñas City, Philippines is the nineteenth-century church organ made almost entirely from bamboo: only the trumpet stops are made from metal.
- Month of March
Moriones Festival - The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. The name Moriones is derived from the Spanish word 'Morion' meaning mask or helmet. The Moriones or Moryonan tradition has inspired the creation of other festivals in the Philippines where cultural practices or folk history is turned into street festivals.
Bantayan Island Fiesta - Bantayan Island in Cebu City, Philippines is also celebrating there annual feasta during Holy Week or Lenten Season on which this island is famous of white sand beautiful beaches.
- Month of April
Bataan Day/Death March of Bataan - The Bataan Death March took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. A 97 km march occurred after the three month Battle of Bataan and parts of the Battle of the Philippines in World War II.
Imbayah Festival (Banaue, Ifugao)- Is the Feast for all native tribal men in Banaue Ifugao, a feast for thankgiving for three-day Ifugao tribal gathering known as the Imbayah festival in April.
- Month of May
Antipolo Pilgrimage - The pilgrimage is in Antipolo Rizal a month-long celebration that sees devotees trekking up a much-trodden path leading to the religious shrine, more popularly known as the Virgin of Antipolo. The image is believed to be already three hundred years old and is said to manifest miraculous powers.
Pulilan Carabao Festival - A 2 days Celebration on which the people of Pulilan in Bulacan Province, San Isidro in Nueva Ecija Province, and Angono in Rizal Province pay tribute to there Carabaos or Water Buffalos every 14th of May.
Pahiyas Sa Quezon - a simple celebration as a form of thanksgiving to the ANITOs for the good harvest of farm products such as palay, vegetables, fruits, and fish. the farmers used to gather their harvests inside the chaplet ("tuklong"), where they used to converged and partake of a sumptuous meal. They drink "tuba" (natural wine) from the flower stalks of coconut, buri or cabo negro (kaong).
Obando Fertility Rite - A dance ritual every year during the month of May, to the tune of musical instruments made out of bamboo materials and wear traditional dance costumes to dance on the streets followed by the images of their patron saints San Pascual Baylon (St. Paschal), Santa Clara (St. Clare) and Nuestra Señora de Salambao (Our Lady of Salambao), while singing the song Santa Clara Pinung-Pino.
- Month of June
Independence Day - Kawit Cavite is Celebrating the freedome during World War. The Independence Day Celebration is marked by a flag raising ceremony on the balcony of the Emilio Aguinaldo Shrine, where the first Philippine flag was unfurled.
- Month of July
Paaway Sa Kabayo - It is a religious devotional festive dance with a mock battle depicting the war between the Moros and the Christians in Granada. It is based on the legend that St. James miraculously aided the Christians by riding on white horse from the heavens and slew hundreds of Moors.
- Month of October
Oktober Feast - A festival of overflowing beers. This is celebrated with parties on different locations all over the country. The price of beer during this celebration plunges so deep that a glass of beer can even cost only one peso. This happens during the opening of the festival and mostly on the closing ceremonies. We should thank San Miguel Corporation for inventing this kind of Festival.
Masskara Festival - A prominent feature of the festival is the mask worn by participants; these are always adorned with smiling faces. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.
- Month of November
Grand Cordillera Festival - People in Baguio City gather annually to celebrate the culture and tradition of the major enthnolinguistic group of the region. This week-long festival features tribal dancing and thanksgiving ceremonies.
Feast of San Clemente / Higantes Festival - A prominent feature of this festival are the gigantic paper machés of human figures paraded in the town of Angono. In honor of San Clemente (patron saint of fishermen), participants of the procession dress themselves with fishermen's clothes and local costumes while carrying boat paddles, fish nets, and other fishing gear.
- Month of December
San Fernando Giant Lantern Festival - The annual celebration of Lantern Festival has become a major attraction during the Christmas season. A stunning display of lights and color happens during the festival night of lanterns in San Fernando as the designers of each lanterns (parols) compete for the biggest and most dynamic interplay of each creations during the five-minute show.
Feast of the Immaculate Conception - The Feast of the Immaculate Concepcion is a grand celebration in Puerto Princesa for the City's Patroness highlighted by parade of the images of Virgin Mary.
Bikol Pastores - A unique Christmas celebration of Legazpi, Albay believed to have originated in the province where "pastores" - young men and women dressed in colorful shepherd costumes - joyfully dance and sing "Pastores a Belen" through the city streets.
Binirayan Festival - A festive commemoration of an episode in the history of the Filipino race through colorful pageants acted on the beaches of Maybato in San Jose and Malandog in Hamtik. Particularly interesting is the drama of the first Malay settlement at Malandog which runs for several days and nights. Binirayan is also an occasion for reunions of family, relatives and friends with homecoming Antiqueno expatriates.
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