Montreal comes alive each summer with a vibrant array of festivals celebrating music, art, culture, and more. Whether you're a local or planning a visit, here's your comprehensive guide to the best festivals in Montreal for 2025.
Get your party shoes out and join the salsa festival. Watch both Canadian and international greats or learn to salsa for yourself with world-class instructors.
Bringing together world musicians for a series of performances and workshops.
Every Thursday and Friday, join this lit cinq-à-sept with different themes like Soirée Tropicale and Fuego Festival. DJs playing in May include Ms Baby and Niabi, DJ Blaze, DJ Apollo, Richtanner, Samia, and Young Fresh.
Showcasing low-budget, boundary-challenging, and guerrilla filmmakers from Canada, the United States, and France.
Let the punk heart in your chest rage it out. The Pouzza festival is all about the loud, the screechy, the noisy, the rebellious, the fun.
Catch a wide variety of acts on the front porches and balconies of homes up and down streets from below Sherbrooke to above Monkland.
Celebrating urban art across the city with murals, installations, and live performances.
A Japanese street market with street food, vendors, Japanese drinks, shows, and cultural workshops.
A local festival nestled in by the Lachine Canal with music, food, and celebration of the neighborhood.
Over 350 shows will be playing in the heart of the city with two-thirds completely free.
Don’t miss the world’s greatest pyrotechnic artists take center stage in this international fireworks competition.
Over 100 performances, activities, and workshops celebrating Montréal’s Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora.
Celebrating soul, motown, R&B, gospel, and funk music, transforming the site into a veritable outdoor dance floor.
Inviting guests to ‘taste their way through the islands’ with bold flavors, cooking and mixology demos, and a stellar lineup of homegrown award-winning musical talent.
Brings together mouthwatering cuisine, family-friendly activities, big stage performances, and shines a spotlight on the unique culture of Portuguese Montréal.
Featuring the crème de la crème of comedic talent, JFL is not just the world’s biggest comedy festival, it’s quite clearly also the best.
A Canadian anime convention promoting Japanese animation, graphic novels, related gaming, and Japanese pop culture.
Dedicated to the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts, with a six-day event in Montreal.